Historic Brass Society

Founded in 1988, The Historic Brass Society (HBS) is an international music organization whose goal is to promote the exchange of serious ideas about the history and performance of brass instruments and music, ranging from Antiquity through the twentieth century.

The Society was created by participants in the annual Early Brass Festival, founded in 1985, in Amherst, Massachusetts. In a short time the Society grew in size and initiated an ambitious publishing program. Since 1989, it has produced an annual journal, the Historic Brass Society Journal and, from 1989 through 2005 it published the Historic Brass Society Newsletter which was then supplanted by more timely content presented on its multifaceted website, www.historicbrass.org. In addition, it publishes a series of books in conjunction with Pendragon Press, the Bucina book series. It also sponsors workshops, conferences, and symposia world-wide. The Historic Brass Society now has about 600 members from 25 countries.

The Society has become the principal forum for scholarly research in the field of historic brass instruments, their music, composers and performers. Because it draws its members from both the scholarly and performing communities, it often serves as a liaison between the early brass world and many organizations in other cultural and intellectual communities. The Society has participated in Congresses of the International Musicological Society since 1997 and has organized study sessions at annual conferences of the American Musicological Society. It has organized conferences in collaboration with the Galpin Society, American Musical Instrument Society, CIMCIM, and other organizations and has presented conferences at many distinguished institutions including Yale University, Oxford University, Oberlin College, Cité de la Musique (Paris), The Institute for Jazz Studies of Rutgers University, Edinburgh University, the Horniman Museum (London), the Royal College of Music (London), Indiana University, and Wake Forest University, to name a few. The Society’s annual Early Brass Festival, held each summer at locations throughout the United States, offers formal lectures and performances as well as informal brass playing sessions for cornetti, natural trumpets, natural horns, sackbuts, serpents, and a wide range of 19th-century brass instruments.

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