Thus far, performances have included the collective’s debut concert in June 2021 and videos featured at the International Horn Symposium in August, which was particularly important because of the conference’s influential status, Kung said.
This includes playing compositions written by Black women and putting together video shows featuring only female and gender non-conforming artists, Kung said. Vivian Kung, an alumnus and member of the Chromatic Brass Collective, said a large portion of the collective’s work centers around uplifting the accomplishments of underrepresented musicians. Now, Richards said she looks forward to expanding the group’s endeavors. At the time, she was dealing with the loss of one of her private students, and she said pouring herself into the Chromatic Brass Collective allowed her to find a sense of direction. For a few months, the organization was less active, but Richards said she reignited the spark in fall 2020 and began building the foundation of the collective, making a logo and figuring out logistics.
“We’re all the colors, all the notes, all the peoples.”Īfter the conversation in June, Richards said the idea to make the group into something more structured occurred to all involved. “If you think about it in a visual arts perspective, chromatic means all the colors and so I was like, ‘That’s kind of what we are,'” Dorsett said. For Dorsett, the title fits the collective because of its mission to represent all people in brass music. The name Chromatic Brass comes from the term chromatic scale, Dorsett said, which refers to a scale in which all the notes used in Western music are played. The Chromatic Brass Collective wants to change the type of musician people imagine when they think of the genre, said the co-founder and vice president of operations. In classical music, the composers whose music is stereotypically played are usually white, male and heterosexual, said Madison Dorsett, a fourth-year French horn performance student. “The first thing would just be taking up more space and taking our space to define who we are.” “(A brass player is) not always a man, it’s not always a white person,” Richards said. Since then, Richards said the organization has made it its mission to expand the idea of what a brass player looks like. The collective got its start in June 2020 when a group of musicians gathered to discuss their experiences as Black women and Black femmes in classical music, said alumnus Yasmeen Richards, who serves as the president and co-founder of the Chromatic Brass Collective. The Chromatic Brass Collective is making sure to hit every note.
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