Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is bringing brass to the island the week of Oct. 6.

C Street Brass is the “Ensemble in Residence” at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., playing trumpets, horns and trombones. The quintet will lead educational workshops and entertain with ensemble performances as part of the festival’s “Musician-in-Residence” program.

During the day, C Street Brass will be coaching students at Orcas elementary, middle and high schools, counseling with school music teachers and presenting spirit school assemblies in schools and at Orcas Center.

The group will continue to coach and perform at night, too. On Monday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m., C Street will take part in the Community Band rehearsal, with a focus on coaching brass members.

On Thursday, Oct. 10 there will be a Brass Master Class with Orcas Island’s Turtleback Brass. Other island brass players are welcome to join this session.  If interested, call the OICMF Office 376-6636. On Friday, Oct. 11, there will be a special concert at The Grange, “Classy Brass: A Chamber Music Festival Community Concert.” The program is at 7 p.m., followed by a post-concert coffee bar reception. Tickets are $15 and $10 for students 18 and under.  To reserve your seat for this exciting concert, call OICMF 376-6636 or email joyce@oicmf.org.

C Street Brass performs classical, jazz, commercial and chamber music. They can be heard online at www.cstreetbrass.com. They have appeared in chamber music series across the country, and toured internationally in Tbilisi, Georgia as Resident ensemble of the Traveling Notes Music Festival and in Doha, Qatar as ambassadors for Carnegie Mellon University.

The quintet has received outreach and community education training from violinist and educator Monique Mead, who Orcas students and audiences know well as OICMF’s popular “Musician-in-Residence” and festival performer.