SOUNDING BRASS QUINTET

The Sounding Brass Quintet, organized in 1983, appears regularly in the Maryland and Pennsylvania area performing concerts and recitals, and for weddings, church services and school assemblies.  The quintet performs a wide variety of music, both serious and light, including music from the baroque and renaissance eras to the contemporary, and the lighter sounds of ragtime, jazz and popular music.

Tony Domenico (trumpet) holds a Bachelors of Arts in Music Education from Shepherd University in WV and a Masters of Music Education from Shenandoah University in VA. Mr. Domenico has performed with various musical groups in the Baltimore/Washington area and in Europe. Mr. Domenico is presently a music teacher in Harford County Maryland.

Mark Lashof (trumpet) is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Music and Towson University.  He taught instrumental music in Maryland public schools for 34 years until retirement in 2014. Earlier he worked in administration in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lashof maintains a private trumpet studio.  Many of his students have been accepted in the county and state honors bands.

Bruce Kovacs (horn) earned a B.M. from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, M.M.E. at Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. at University of Maryland. He has performed with the York Symphony, Gettysburg Symphony, Susquehanna Symphony, and the Kenley Players. He has conducted sound tracks of musical shows for dinner theaters throughout the area.  He is a former music teacher in Baltimore County, Supervisor of Music in Harford County, and principal of North Harford Middle School.  Dr. Kovacs is now retired.  His hobbies are playing horn, and almost anything that can be done outdoors.

Bernard Robier (trombone) feels fortunate to have made a living as a working Trombonist for most of his adult life, as a military bandsman in the mid 1960’s with the Army to a long career with a popular local band and nationally known ‘the Admirals’. Bernie also toured with the ‘Si Zentner Big Band’ and free lanced for several years in Las Vegas playing the Folies Bergere, Minsky’s Burlesque, Judy Garland and much more. Bernie currently free lances in the Baltimore, Washington market performing regularly with the ‘Hank Levy Legacy Band’, the ‘Don Junker Big Band’, the ‘Melting Pot Big Band’ and the ‘Spires Brass Band’. Having studied classically for many years with the then principal Trombonist with the Baltimore Symphony, John Melick, Bernie spent twenty years playing with the Gettysburg Symphony under the baton of Dr. William Sebastian Hart and now does his best to support his Trombone habit as a realtor for Long & Foster Realtors out of their Perry Hall office.

Ron Walker (tuba) is a graduate of Gettysburg College (B.S. in Music Ed.) and Temple University (M.M. in Performance), studying tuba with Abe Torchinsky of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has been a member of the Pottstown Symphony, the Mid-Atlantic Music and Arts Camp, and the Galliard Brass Quintet.  Ron was a high school/middle school band director for 18 years in Pennsylvania and Harford County, MD. In 1985, Ron switched from music to computers and over the next 20 years became a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, a Compaq Accredited Systems Engineer and the Supervisor of Networks and Software Support for Harford County Public Schools. In 2005, Ron retired from Harford County Schools to take a position in the IT Department of Har-Co MD Federal Credit Union.