The UMKC Conservatory Hour - Birth of the brass quintet, late Schumann and Chen Yi’s ‘Wind’

By Rodrigo Camargo,

Published June 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM CDT

UMKC Conservatory musicians perform at Crescendo 2024

On this episode, acclaimed UMKC Conservatory composition professor Chen Yi takes us on a trip to China, plus we'll hear one of the first brass quintets ever written, and one of Schubert’s final musical statements.

Host

Rodrigo Camargo
Rodrigo Camargo is a Brazilian composer currently pursuing his DMA in Composition at the UMKC Conservatory.

Program

Four Impromptus Op.142
By Franz Schubert
Alon Goldstein, piano

Brass Quintet No. 1 in Bb minor Op. 5
by Victor Ewald
UMKC Volker Brass Quintet
Austin Barry, trumpet
Emmitt Rieffer, trumpet
Angie Mejia Argueta, horn
Landon Schmidt, trombone
Jacob DuPont, tuba

Wind
By Chen Yi
UMKC Wind Symphony
Conducted by Emily Trapani

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