For quite a few years, we have been doing presentations in schools around the country, demonstrating our instruments, entertaining and integrating information that assists the students in their educational pursuits.  We realized that there was a completely untapped arena that could easily benefit from the same type of presentation.

A brass quintet, (actually any group of musicians), has to be a complete team to be effective in performance.  We have all worked in larger teams (symphony orchestras) where you have between 90 and 180 individuals all working together for a common goal.

As a musician you need to listen, tune to everyone else, hear the nuance in the other persons playing, breathe together, attack together, have the same concept of what the finished product must be and each person knows they need the others there to make it happen.

This all comes about in spite of the differences in personalities that may be present - everyone puts their ego on hold when working in the group.  There are some groups where members actually dislike each other intensely, yet still work at the highest level with each other.  Yes, it's easier when everyone gets along, but it isn't essential.