Join us for our Homecoming celebration! Your Queen City Freedom Band is larger and more excited than ever to perform for you. Saturday, March 29, 2025
3:00-5:00PM
Christ Church Cathedral, 318 E. 4th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tickets $10: https://givebutter.com/QCFBHomecoming
The program includes two works featuring Dr. Russ Zokaites as bass trombone soloist. Russ worked hard to help start the QCFB in 2018 along with co-founder and current artistic director, Dr. Jon Noworyta, when the pair were doctoral students at the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. After graduating, Russ's career as a college music professor took him out of Cincinnati and away from the QCFB to great success. He now serves as Assistant Professor of Trombone at Fresno State University in California. We warmly welcome back Russ, his husband Logan, and their son to Cincinnati to musically celebrate the growth of our band.
We will also celebrate the 10 year anniversary of same-sex marriage equality in the United States by performing the Cincinnati premiere of John and Jim by queer composer Viet Cuong. John and Jim was commissioned by the Columbus Pride Bands and the Queen City Freedom Band and first performed at the 2024 Pride Bands Alliance Annual Conference held in Columbus, OH. The piece celebrates the love between Jim Obergefell and John Arthur and their role in the landmark Supreme Court decision Obergefell v Hodges (2015). John and Jim met, fell in love, and shared their lives together in Cincinnati. We are honored to welcome Jim home to Cincinnati for the playing of this piece and we are all honored to hold John in our hearts as we perform this special music.
2:00 PM Pre-concert talk with Jim Obergefell, Artistic Director Jon Nowortya, and trombone soloist Russ Zokaites (no additional charge)
QCFB's Homecoming Concert is supported by the in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the annual ArtsWave Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding.
Many thanks to the following for their generous support:
**Christ Church Cathedral for hosting us for this concert
**Scrap It Up for a grant that significantly covered our cost in the commissioning project for John and Jim
Tickets $10: https://givebutter.com/QCFBHomecoming
Event Venue
Christ Church Cathedral, 318 East Fourth St,Cincinnati, United States
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