Joseph Alessi

Name: Joseph Alessi
Start: 2026-10-25T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-25T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Sono Hotel

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 · 19:00

Sono Hotel, Brno

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Joseph Alessi performs at Sono Hotel in Brno on Sunday, 25 October 2026 at 19:00. The concert takes place in the architecturally distinctive building from 2014 on Brno's Veveří street, part of the Sono Centrum cultural complex. The hotel features 39 rooms across nine floors, each themed after a different music legend. This performance marks one of two Czech dates on the trombonist's tour.

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About the venue: Sono Hotel

The four-star SONO Hotel is part of the multifunctional Sono Centrum complex on Veveří street in Brno. The architecturally distinctive building, completed in 2014, has 39 rooms across nine floors, each themed after a different music legend - from the Beatles to Metallica. It connects directly to a three-storey concert hall with a capacity of up to 1,200 visitors, used for concerts, theatre performances and TV broadcasts. Suites on the upper floors offer a panoramic view over the city.

Veveří 113, 602 00 Brno Get directions

About: Joseph Alessi

Alessi has anchored the trombone section of the New York Philharmonic for over four decades and ranks among the most influential brass pedagogues of his generation, with Juilliard alumni filling principal chairs across the globe. His discography includes a Grammy-winning recording and world premieres of concertos by Rouse, Bolcom, and Chick Corea.

14+

solo albums in discography

1985

year of joining New York Philharmonic (holds the position to this day)

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Grammy Award (Best Contemporary Classical Composition, 2001)

1993

Pulitzer Prize for Music - for the world premiere of Rouse's Trombone Concerto (1992)

What's new

2026-07
Alessi performed as a solo guest at an Imperial Brass concert in Ocean Grove (New Jersey) as part of the Summer Stars Classical Concert Series summer series.
2026-02
Alessi performed as a guest soloist with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra at the concert "Planet Earth: A Symphonic Journey".
2025-11
Alessi conducted the World Doctor's Orchestra - a new role that expands his previous conducting activities.

Tracks

Christopher Rouse: Trombone Concertoworld premiere in 1992 with New York Philharmonic; Pulitzer Prize for Music 1993

George Crumb: Star-Childrecording from 1999 with Warsaw Philharmonic; Grammy Award 2001 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Trombonasticssolo album on Summit Records; one of the key works in Alessi's discography

Chick Corea: Trombone Concertoworld premiere 2021 in São Paulo, American premiere 2023 with New York Philharmonic; the concerto was composed specifically for Alessi

Fandangoalbum with trumpeter Philip Smith (Summit Records); an example of Alessi's chamber music work

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