BROOKINGS – The Brookings Chamber Music Society will present trumpeter and composer Charles Lazarus in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Performing Arts Center’s Larson Memorial Concert Hall.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets can be purchased at the South Dakota State University Department of Music’s office in the Lincoln Music Hall or at the PAC ticket office the night of the concert.

Lazarus’ program will include Giambattista Martini’s Toccata, his own “Dance Honu,” and the highly virtuosic Concerto for Trumpet by jazz trumpeter Harry James. The second half of the concert features Steve Heitzig’s American Nomad Concerto, written expressly for Lazarus and premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra in 2015. Lazarus will be accompanied by Minneapolis-based pianist Tom Linker.


Lazarus' eclectic career has been met with acclaim from critics worldwide. He made his main stage Carnegie Hall solo debut with the New York String Orchestra as a 19-year-old while attending The Juilliard School.

He has been a member of the Dallas Brass, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Canadian Brass and currently the Minnesota Orchestra. He has been on the trumpet faculties of Princeton University and St. Olaf College, and has performed and taught master classes in Canada, South America and throughout Europe and Asia, and in every state in the U.S.

He has performed with the New York Trumpet Ensemble, The New York Big Brass, The London Brass and the Montreal Symphony and has been a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy and the Bach Society, among others. He has recorded television and Imax film scores as well as major symphony orchestras and numerous classical, pop and jazz ensembles.

For more information, call the SDSU music department at 688-5187 or search www.sdstate.edu for “BCMS.”