Wholly Brass

The Wholly Brass has been entertaining and dazzling audiences since 1996.  With performances at the New York's Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and many more prestigious venues, Wholly Brass brings music in an educational and entertaining fashion everywhere it goes.

The group was founded and nurtured while the players were still students at The Juilliard School. The repertoire of the group includes Classical Masterpieces, Jazz, Broadway, World and Hollywood music. The concerts are presented with narrative commentary between each selection and are engaging to a diverse range of audiences and age groups.

Wholly Brass is endorsed by New York Trumpets.  The trumpets in Wholly Brass proudly play only Stage 1 Bb and C trumpets.

David Glukh – Piccolo Trumpet
 Since his graduation from The Juilliard School in May 2000, David Glukh has been leading an active performance schedule, first as a member of Dallas Brass, and as a bandleader/soloist/composer and arranger of David Glukh International Ensemble, Manhattan Soloists and Wholly Brass since 2002. Mr.Glukh has performed live television and radio broadcasts on WFDU 89.1 FM, NPR, WQXR 96.3, Cable Networks of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas and Kol Ha Musica (Israeli Classical Music Radio Station). As a soloist, David has appeared with the Louisville Orchestra, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Jupiter Symphony, Lyric Theater Orchestra, Raanana Symphoniette, IDF Orchestra, Ulianovsk Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Melodia. In 1995, Mr.Glukh received an award from the Israeli Musicians Union for excellence in performance. He was a recipient of the America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship from 1990-2000. David Glukh was born in Moscow in 1975, where he attended the Gnesin’s Music School. In 1990, he immigrated to Israel where he spent the following three years in the Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts. He later served in the Army Orchestra from 1993 to 1996.

Charles Porter – Trumpet
Charles Porter, a New York-based trumpeter and composer, has performed throughout the world as a classical chamber musician, jazz musician and soloist. Charles has been a core member of Kristjan Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble since 1996, (a Grammy-nominated ensemble which plays everything from Bach, Adams & Stravinksy to Ellington & Hendrix) and has performed with such diverse groups as The Moscow Chamber Symphony, The Mingus Big Band and The New Juilliard Ensemble, directed by Joel Sachs. Charles has recently recorded and performed Blood On The Floor by Mark-Anthony Turnage and has participated in numerous world premiers of works by composers, such as Matthew Hindson, Charles Coleman, Django Bates, Michael Daugherty, Kitty Brazelton, and Ezequiel Vinao. Mr. Porter has performed and recorded with such acclaimed musicians as Paquito D’Rivera, David Taylor, Lew Soloff, Kenny Drew Jr., and Peter Erskine. Charles received his formal musical training at The Juilliard School in New York City. His teachers included Wynton Marsalis, Raymond Mase, and Mark Gould. As a freshman, he won first place in the Quadrennial Juilliard Trumpet Concerto Competition and later performed as a soloist with The Juilliard Symphony. Following his studies at Juilliard, he studied for one year at The Paris Conservatory as a Fulbright Scholar with Guy Touvron.

Brian Mahany -- Trombone
Brian Mahany has performed with such groups as the New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New Haven Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony, New York Grand Opera, Opera Orchestra of New York, Atlantic Chamber Symphony and serves as the principal trombonist for the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.    He has also been guest principal trombonist with the Santo Domingo Symphony abroad. Brian has recorded with Greenwich Symphony, Columbia Symphony and the Hora Decima Ensemble. Mr. Mahany received a Master of Trombone Performance from Yale University, under the instruction of John Swallow. He serves on the faculty at Kean University as a trombone and euphonium professor.

Jonathan Greenberg – Bass Trombone
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Greenberg has performed with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed in bands of Keely Smith, Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Toshiko Akiyoshi and is bass trombonist with Mike Longo’s New York State of the Art Jazz Orchestra, with whom he has two recordings available. He is a founding member of  St. Luke’s Trombone Quartet. Mr. Greenberg can also be seen performing in the orchestras of many Broadway musicals. Jonathan received a Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1997. Over the years, his teachers have included John Rojak and Steve Norrell.

Victor Sungarian – French Horn
Victor Sungarian is a member of Albany Symphony Orchestra and Princeton Symphony. In addition to those engagements he has been busy performing with San Jose Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Harrisburg Symphony and others.

He has been a top prize winner in several competitions, among them, First Prize at the Golden Diana chamber music competition in Jambol City, Bulgaria and a First Prize at the Young Talent competition of the Plovdiv City Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Sungarian is a native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His family emigrated to United States of America in 1989. Subsequently, Victor was admitted to The Juilliard School, from which he has graduated with Master of Music Degree in 1997. While a student at Juilliard School he was a winner of the Wind Instrument Competition in 1991.