The Milwaukee Brass Quintet:
Don Sipe, trumpet
Mike Dorau, trumpet
Darcy Hamlin, horn
Dave Lussier, trombone
Randy Montgomery, tuba
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Donald Sipe has been playing the trumpet for over 30 years. His career is many faceted as a performer, educator, arranger, and music entrepreneur.
He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and South America. In the Milwaukee area, he works regularly with the Milwaukee Symphony, Present Music, Stained Glass Brass and the Milwaukee Brass Quintet. He has performed as principal trumpet with the Syracuse Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Brass Band of Battle Creek. He is the former Principal Trumpet of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra.
His chamber music credits include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble, the Chicago Brass Quintet, Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble and the Summit Brass. His arrangements for brass quintet have been played by many brass quintets including the Milwaukee Brass Quintet and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet.
Mr. Sipe has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, the Air Force Heritage of America Band (with jazz trumpeter Marvin Stamm), the Waukesha Symphony, Present Music, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He has recorded with the Summit Brass, Present Music, the Milwaukee Symphony, Sones de Mexico and new age artist Peter Buffit.
He is the former Co-principal trumpet of the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, where he worked with the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. He has participated in several summer music festivals, including Tanglewood, Spoleto, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, the Peninsula Music Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra in Keystone, CO.
Sipe is founder and president of Omicron Artist Management, Inc., an arts management company that represents classical and jazz conductors, soloists, chamber ensembles, and composers. He is active in all aspects of career guidance for clients, and works with orchestras, presenters, venues, publishers, media and record companies world-wide on behalf of the Omicron roster.
Mr. Sipe earned his Bachelor and Master's degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He lives in Shorewood, WI with his wife Jennifer Startt, a violinist in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and their daughter Emmeline Rose.