Here's a list of community orchestras and bands you can join in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Free PDF of comprehensive scale sheet for Bb trumpet and T.C. Euphonium/Baritone, Trombone and Tuba.

Support the arts and music education during this season of giving. Place a bid in our 2022 fall silent auction. Items have been generously donated by SF House of Air and Mark Foehringer Dance Project SF.

For the perfect Christmas band or musical ensemble at your event, hire Brass Over Bridges. Based in the SF Bay Area, our brass quintet has an incredible array of holiday music, and can perform classical, pop and jazz arrangements of everyone’s favorite holiday music.

Brass quintet or trio offers a uniquely rich sound for your wedding, and can easily suit an indoor or outdoor ceremony and cocktail hour. We are a classically rooted ensemble that also plays jazz and pop.

Hear chamber music exclusively by women composers at Noe Valley Ministry on Friday April 22nd at 7pm. Presented by Brass Over Bridges, the evening includes an open beer/wine bar for 21+, snacks, non-alcoholic beverages and a silent auction.

This Giving Tuesday, donate locally to music education in the San Francisco Bay Area. Brass Over Bridges is fundraising for a completely free summer brass workshop for elementary through high school students in San Rafael, CA, in collaboration with El Sistema based program, Enriching Lives through Music.

Many schools find it difficult to prioritize arts education in their budget. Performing in a musical group that strives for excellence, students pick up infinitely valued skills that benefit their other classes, extra-curriculars, and future employment.

Learn how to safely clean your trombone slide using a snake. This post also explains how often to clean your slide, and other general tips for trombone care and maintenance.

Download this free, basic trumpet warm-up PDF for advanced middle school to high school trumpet players. This quick, daily trumpet warm-up includes fundamental exercises on flow studies, flexibility, articulation, lip slurs and major arpeggios.

Here are some helpful tips on learning to play the trumpet for beginners. Learn how to form an embouchure on trumpet, how to hold a trumpet, and the difference between tonguing and slurring on trumpet.

Trombone Tips for Beginners. Answers to questions like: how much should a beginning trombone player practice? How do you form an embouchure on the trombone? How do I learn slide positions on trombone?

This free intermediate french horn warm up PDF takes about 15 minutes and is suitable for advanced middle school and intermediate high school students. These fundamental exercises cover sound production, flexibility, range, articulations, dynamics, lip slurs and arpeggios.

A comprehensive list of youth orchestras in the San Francisco Bay Area, including audition timelines, fees, locations and more.

Download a free trombone warm up for beginning to intermediate players. This warm up pdf is suitable for trombonists who have played for 1 to 2 years.

Knowing what exercises to practice and warm up on as a beginner trombone player can be intimidating. Download a free pdf trombone warm up for beginner trombonists.

Watch highlights from our live performance at the SF Conservatory of Music. Listen to music from Albinoni “Sonata St. Mark”, Ewald “Quintet No. 3”, Plog “Four Sketches,” Lutoslawski “Mini-Overture,” and Paquito D’Rivera’s “Four Songs”

From Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel, this selection is from "Evening Prayer" and was arranged for brass quintet by Brass Over Bridges' hornist Margarite Waddell.

What is a brass quintet? A brass quintet is a chamber ensemble composed of five brass instruments. Most commonly, the instruments of the brass quintet are two trumpets, a french horn, trombone and a tuba or a bass trombone. This instrumental configuration of the brass quintet evolved from brass ensembles and brass bands over hundreds of years, becoming standardized in the middle of the twentieth century.