Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

The Accademia Brass Quintet, the brass quintet formed by musicians of the PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, plays on Sunday, December 13, 2026 at 12:00 at Casa del Jazz, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, in the Armando Trovajoli concert hall, for the last event of the Junctions Beyond Jazz series. The program has music by C. A. Kintscher, A. Constantino, F. Sulpizi, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Luis Bacalov, between great pieces of the repertoire in a renewed guise and world premieres written for the quintet. The ticket is a single price and costs 15 euros, according to the official page of Casa del Jazz, and is bought from the venue's official site, which links to the presale network authorized by the organizers. You get there on metro B to Piramide and then almost a kilometer on foot along the Aurelian Walls, or on bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop, a few steps from the gate. By car there is a car park next to the villa, on Via Cristoforo Colombo at the corner with Viale di Porta Ardeatina.

Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz: the essentials

A brass quintet, a December Sunday, noon, a hall of a little over 100 seats: that's the formula of the concert that closes Junctions Beyond Jazz 2026, and for those who love the sound of brass it's hard to imagine a better one.

The essential information

Date: Sunday, December 13, 2026. Time: 12:00. Venue: Casa del Jazz, Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, Armando Trovajoli concert hall. Series: Junctions Beyond Jazz, curated by the Fondazione Musica per Roma. Performers: Accademia Brass Quintet, brass ensemble of the PMCE. Ticket: single price, 15 euros. Roma Capitale's cultural portal lists the event as accessible. The program, the same official listing warns, may be subject to change.

What to expect

Expect a chamber concert for brass, not a jazz concert in the usual sense. The series says so in its name: Junctions Beyond Jazz, crossings beyond jazz. Here the crossing is between Italian film music, with three of its most celebrated authors, and music written today, with new pieces conceived specially for this ensemble. These are two worlds that have touched in Rome for decades, often with the same instrumentalists.

The program: from Morricone and Rota to the premieres

The program announced by Casa del Jazz includes music by C. A. Kintscher, A. Constantino, F. Sulpizi, E. Morricone, N. Rota and L. Bacalov, with pieces from the great repertoire reworked in a new sonic guise and world premieres written for the quintet.

Three masters of Italian cinema

Morricone, Rota and Bacalov are the three names the audience will recognize at once. Ennio Morricone, a Roman, is the best-known Italian film composer in the world, and the headquarters of the Fondazione Musica per Roma, the same one that runs Casa del Jazz, has borne his name at Rome's Auditorium since 2020. Nino Rota is the musician of Federico Fellini's cinema. Luis Bacalov, born in Argentina and long a resident of Italy, tied his name to the soundtrack of Il postino. Hearing them in a transcription for five brass instruments means hearing those melodies stripped of the orchestra, reduced to their essential design.

A renewed sonic guise

The official presentation speaks of pieces from the great repertoire in a renewed sonic guise. It's the practice of transcription, as old as ensemble music: you take a piece born for another ensemble and rethink it for the possibilities and limits of brass. A theme entrusted to the strings in an orchestra, played by a trumpet or a horn, changes color and weight. The pleasure of the concert lies right there, in recognizing a beloved melody under a different light.

The world premieres

Alongside the repertoire, the quintet presents pieces written specially for this ensemble and performed for the first time. It's the mark of belonging to the PMCE, an ensemble that lives on new music. The names of Kintscher, Constantino and Sulpizi are less familiar to the general public. The official listing doesn't specify which pieces are new, and the best way to find out will be to hear them in the hall. In our judgment, a concert that puts a world premiere next to Nino Rota is an honest concert: it offers the pleasure of recognition and the responsibility of discovery together.

Why brass in a jazz series

Jazz was born also from the brass bands of New Orleans, and the trumpet and trombone are among its founding instruments. A brass quintet at Casa del Jazz is therefore not a foreign body: it's a return to the genre's instrumental roots, with a repertoire that nevertheless looks to the Italian tradition of cinema and art music.

The brass quintet: an ensemble with a history

The brass quintet is one of the most widespread chamber ensembles in the world, and in its most common form it brings together two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba.

The typical lineup

The Casa del Jazz listing doesn't indicate the exact lineup of the Accademia Brass Quintet, nor the names of the individual musicians. The most common brass quintet lineup pairs two trumpets, which often carry the melody, a horn, which bridges high and low registers, a trombone and a tuba, which holds the bass. It's a lineup able to go from the softest song to the fortissimo of a fanfare, and this range is its strength.

A sound that fills a small hall

Brass in a hall of 100 seats is a physical experience. Anyone used to hearing them at the back of a symphony orchestra, 20 meters away, will find them here very close, with all the details of the sound production: the breath before the phrase, the change of mute, the vibration of the mouthpiece. It's a very different listening from that of a big auditorium, and in this case a richer one.

Transcribing for brass

The original literature for brass quintet is relatively recent. That's why brass ensembles have always worked a lot on transcriptions, from Renaissance music to soundtracks. The December 13 program follows this path and crosses it with new writing, which is the other way the quintet's repertoire keeps growing.

The PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble

The PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble is the contemporary music ensemble of the Fondazione Musica per Roma, directed by Tonino Battista: a group with a variable lineup, made up of musicians from the contemporary European scene.

A modular ensemble

The Auditorium's official presentation describes the PMCE as a modular ensemble, able to give life to solo performances, chamber music or productions for Large Ensemble, all devoted to contemporary art music. The Accademia Brass Quintet is one of these forms: the brass section that detaches from the group and becomes an autonomous ensemble.

Young players and soloists

The project, grown over the seasons of contemporary music of the Fondazione Musica per Roma at the Auditorium, pairs young musicians with the best soloists of the international scene. It's a workshop model: those who enter learn by playing next to those who already have a career. The quintet's name, Accademia, seems to recall precisely this idea of a school.

The Contemporanea season

The PMCE is at the center of the Contemporanea series at Auditorium Parco della Musica, which the Foundation presents as a season devoted to some of the most vital experiences of current artistic thought. Among the ensemble's recorded productions is Lezioni di tenebra, a chamber opera for soprano, countertenor, vocal quartet and instrumental ensemble, drawn from Francesco Cavalli's Giasone and Giacinto Andrea Cicognini's libretto.

Tonino Battista

At the head of the PMCE is Tonino Battista, permanent conductor of the ensemble since 2009 according to his résumé. With the PMCE he has worked in contact with living composers and has conducted works of the modern and contemporary repertoire, especially within the Auditorium's season.

The PMCE between the Biennale Musica and Morricone

In October 2026 the PMCE was invited to the Biennale Musica in Venice with a program that included the world premiere of Ennio Morricone's Musica per una fine, an unpublished work released posthumously.

An unpublished Morricone

According to the Biennale's presentation, Musica per una fine is built around a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini read by the poet himself. The PMCE performed it with 32 instrumentalists and the 16 voices of the Coro Academia Alma Vox conducted by Alberto De Sanctis, under the direction of Tonino Battista. The same program included pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Anton Webern and Sarah Davachi, read as different forms of the sublime.

Why it matters for the December concert

Anyone hearing Morricone played by the Accademia Brass Quintet hears musicians who approach his music not as light concert repertoire but as living material, down to the unpublished works. It's a guarantee of seriousness. In the hands of a contemporary music ensemble, Morricone goes back to being what he was for art musicians too.

A tie with Rome

The Biennale presented the PMCE as a Roman ensemble. It's a fair definition: it was born at the Auditorium, plays mostly in the capital, and carries in its repertoire the musical tradition of a city in which film music and contemporary music have always crossed paths.

Junctions Beyond Jazz 2026: the series that closes

Junctions Beyond Jazz is the Casa del Jazz concert cycle devoted, according to the Roma Capitale portal, to the crossing of avant-garde, memory and experimentation. The 2026 edition opened on March 15 and closes precisely on December 13 with the Accademia Brass Quintet.

The autumn Sundays

In autumn 2026 the series offers three Sundays at noon in Sala Trovajoli: on October 18 Lyrica by Massimo Ceccarelli, on November 29 Le frontiere dell'arpa with Lucia Bova, on December 13 the brass quintet. Voice and double bass, solo harp, five brass: the line is coherent, instruments usually heard elsewhere, brought into a hall born for jazz.

The closing concert

Closing with a brass quintet two weeks before Christmas is a happy choice. Brass has an ancient tie with celebration and with open-air music, and in December their sound carries something festive. Those who have followed the series will find the most brilliant concert in the closing one. Those who haven't will find an excellent entry point.

Sunday noon

The noon concert has a long tradition in European cities. At Casa del Jazz it lets people who don't go out at night, families and passing visitors hear live music by daylight, and see the villa and the park as they can't be seen in the evening.

Casa del Jazz: a villa given back to the city

Casa del Jazz occupies Villa Osio, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, and is run by the Fondazione Musica per Roma. The villa belonged to Enrico Nicoletti, identified as a member of the Banda della Magliana, and was confiscated and assigned to the City of Rome.

From confiscation to music

The transformation of the villa into a center devoted to jazz was the wish of the administration of mayor Walter Veltroni. At the entrance a plaque with the names of the victims of the mafia, made with don Luigi Ciotti's association Libera, explains the meaning of the place to anyone who enters. Hearing a concert here means hearing it in a building taken from organized crime and returned to the city, and it's good to remember it.

The villa and the park

Villa Osio extends over about 2,500 square meters and is surrounded by a park of over 25,000 square meters, open from dawn to dusk. Three buildings make up the complex: the main one with the concert hall, equipped for live recording. The second with rehearsal rooms, recording studios and a guesthouse for musicians. The third with a restaurant.

Sala Armando Trovajoli

The quintet plays in the hall named after Armando Trovajoli, a Roman pianist and composer who in the 1950s was among the protagonists of Italian jazz and then an author of soundtracks and musicals. The venue's pages list a capacity of between 134 and 150 seats or so. The name is perfect for this concert: Trovajoli, like Morricone, Rota and Bacalov, wrote for Italian cinema, and the December 13 program pays him an indirect homage.

A close-up acoustic

For brass a hall of this size has a double effect: the sound arrives full and present, and every dynamic nuance is perceived. Anyone with a sensitive ear may prefer the central or rear rows, where the sound blends better. Anyone who wants to see the musicians at work should choose the front rows.

How to get to Casa del Jazz for the Accademia Brass Quintet

You get to Casa del Jazz on metro B to Piramide and then on foot for a little under a kilometer, or on bus 714 to Colombo/Marco Polo. By car you use the car park next to the villa.

By metro B

The reference stop indicated by the venue is Piramide. From the station you pass by the Pyramid of Cestius and Porta San Paolo, then follow the line of the Aurelian Walls to Viale di Porta Ardeatina: a good quarter of an hour's walk, pleasant on Sunday morning, when traffic is light.

By bus

The 714 stops at Colombo/Marco Polo, a few steps from the entrance. It's the most convenient choice for those coming from Termini or EUR. On Sundays the lines follow the holiday schedule, with lower frequencies: it's best to check the runs on the transit company's route planner before going out.

By car

The car park indicated by the venue is on Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the corner with Viale di Porta Ardeatina. On a December Sunday at noon the Colombo is usually free-flowing, but close to the holidays the traffic toward the shopping centers can surprise you: better to leave with margin.

The exit

The length of the concert isn't given in the official listing. In any case you come out at lunchtime, with the afternoon free ahead of you and the metro running.

Tickets for the Accademia Brass Quintet

The ticket for Junctions Beyond Jazz with the Accademia Brass Quintet is a single price and costs 15 euros, according to the official page of Casa del Jazz.

Where to buy

Tickets are bought from the official site of Casa del Jazz, which links to the presale network authorized by the organizers. For a noon concert it's prudent to arrive with the ticket already bought: the hall is small and on the Sundays before Christmas many people look for a short, quality outing.

One price, all seats

There are no sections. In a hall of this size every seat has a good view. The difference is made by the distance from the instruments, as said above.

A gift idea

Two weeks before Christmas, a 15-euro ticket for a brass concert in a historic villa is a simple and smart gift. We point it out because it works: it's an experience, not an object.

How to organize Sunday, December 13

With a concert at 12:00 the day organizes itself: a morning walk, the concert, lunch, an afternoon between the Aventine, Testaccio or the Christmas lights of the center.

The morning

The villa's park is open from dawn to dusk. Arriving around 11:00 allows a walk among the trees before the concert. In mid-December the morning light is low and crisp on clear days. Anyone starting from Piramide can first climb the Aventine, to the Orange Garden, for the view over Rome.

Lunch

You leave the hall at Sunday lunchtime. The villa has a restaurant in one of its three buildings. Beyond the Pyramid opens Testaccio, a district of traditional Roman cooking. In December, with company lunches and pre-holiday reunions, booking is indispensable.

The afternoon

The afternoon can continue at the Baths of Caracalla, about 600 meters away, or in the Testaccio district, between Monte dei Cocci and the former Mattatoio. Anyone who prefers the holiday atmosphere finds in the historic center the Christmas displays described in the listing on Christmas in Rome.

Accessibility at Casa del Jazz

Casa del Jazz declares a design conceived for full accessibility, and Roma Capitale's portal lists the Accademia Brass Quintet concert as an accessible event. Wheelchair users can book their place in the hall on 06 80241281.

Discounts and companions

The Fondazione Musica per Roma provides for people with disabilities a reduced ticket and, where needed, free admission for the companion. Reserved seats are limited and must be booked in good time. For updated conditions the reference is the number above or the address info@musicaperroma.it.

The route

From Piramide metro it's almost a kilometer on foot. For those with mobility difficulties, bus 714, with its stop at Colombo/Marco Polo, or the car with the car park next to the villa are more suitable.

The Accademia Brass Quintet with children

Among the Junctions Beyond Jazz concerts, the Accademia Brass Quintet's is probably the best suited to families: noon time, instruments children recognize, film melodies.

Why kids like brass

A trumpet, a trombone or a tuba are instruments you see working: the cheeks, the movement of the slide, the bell pointing at the audience. For a child it's music to watch as well as to hear. From the front rows the show is visual too.

A few precautions

Brass up close is powerful: for the youngest it's better to avoid the front row. The program alternates known melodies and new music, which can be demanding for a child. A short talk beforehand, about the fact that they'll also hear pieces never played before, turns novelty into curiosity. For the admission conditions for minors the reference is the venue.

The park

The villa's park, before and after, is the ideal space to let kids move. An hour of running outdoors before the concert makes an hour seated afterward easier.

Where to eat near Casa del Jazz

The restaurant housed in one of the three buildings of Villa Osio is the most convenient solution for those who want to have lunch after the concert without moving.

Testaccio

About 20 minutes on foot away, beyond the Pyramid, Testaccio offers the trattorias of traditional Roman cooking, frequented mostly by Romans. A December Sunday is among the busiest days of the year: call ahead.

San Saba and Piramide

Toward San Saba is a quiet residential district with a few neighborhood places. Around Piramide you find bars and places for a quick meal, on the way back toward the metro.

What's around Casa del Jazz

Casa del Jazz is located between the Aventine and the Appia, about 600 meters from the Baths of Caracalla and a kilometer from the Pyramid of Cestius.

Along the walls

Viale di Porta Ardeatina runs next to the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls. It's one of the least frequented stretches of the circuit, and one of the most pleasant to walk.

Aventine and San Saba

A few minutes away are the Piccolo Aventino, with the basilica of San Saba, and the Aventine, with its churches and gardens: everything is collected in the listing Aventine: what to see.

Testaccio

The Testaccio district, with its market, Monte dei Cocci and the former Mattatoio, is described in the listing Testaccio: what to see: the natural continuation of a Sunday in this part of the city.

Mid-December in Rome: the time of the concert

In mid-December Rome enters the holiday season: short days, clear light on bright mornings, lit streets in the center and Christmas markets.

The weather

December mornings can be cold, with temperatures rising toward noon on sunny days. A coat and a scarf are useful for the walk in the park. The hall is heated. December is also a rainy month: an umbrella in your bag is prudent.

The city in those days

The second Sunday before Christmas is one of the busiest of the year. The historic center is crowded with shoppers, while the area around Casa del Jazz stays quiet. It's a good reason to choose a concert here: music, park, lunch, and the confusion of the holidays kept at a distance.

A curiosity about Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

The nicest curiosity of this concert concerns a crossing of names. The program puts together Morricone, Rota and Bacalov, three composers who wrote for Italian cinema. The hall where it's played is named after Armando Trovajoli, another composer who wrote for Italian cinema, after being a protagonist of jazz in the 1950s. And the institution organizing everything, the Fondazione Musica per Roma, has its main seat in the Auditorium named since 2020 after Ennio Morricone himself.

The second curiosity is about the calendar. Junctions Beyond Jazz 2026 opened in mid-March and closes with this concert: the brass quintet is therefore the series' last word. Brass, in the history of music, have often been the instruments of closings and celebrations, from fanfares to festival bands. Entrusting the farewell to them is a choice with a precise logic, and two weeks before Christmas it also has a seasonal flavor.

The third curiosity concerns the name. The quintet is called Accademia Brass Quintet, and the PMCE it comes from is built, by its own account, by pairing young musicians with the best international soloists. Accademia, then, in the old sense of a place where you learn by doing.

Something nobody tells you about Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

What isn't said is that brass in a hall of a little over 100 seats sounds completely different from how you imagine it. In symphonic concerts the brass are at the back of the stage, behind the strings and woodwinds, and reach the listener filtered by distance. Here they will be a few meters away. You hear the breath, the attack of the note, the change of mute, the timbre of the horn that changes depending on how the musician holds his hand in the bell. For those who love brass it's a lesson in listening. For those who don't know them, a discovery.

The second thing is that the hall is equipped for live recording, and records taped in concert have come out of the villa in the past. No recording is announced for this concert. But it's a hall built to return details, and with brass the details are everything: phones off, no rustling papers.

The third concerns the audience. Noon concerts often draw musicians who go on Sunday morning to hear colleagues. In the rows there could be orchestra players from Santa Cecilia or the Teatro dell'Opera. It's an attentive audience: best not to applaud between the movements of a piece, if the performers don't stop.

The advice I give you for visiting Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

It's best to arrive an hour early and to get there on foot. Get off at Piramide around 11:00, walk along the Aurelian Walls to Viale di Porta Ardeatina, enter the park and take a turn among the trees. In mid-December, with the low light, the bricks of the walls take on a warm color that is worth the walk.

Second piece of advice: listen to the original melodies first. The evening before, rewatch a film with music by Rota, or relisten to a Morricone theme in the orchestral version. In the hall you'll recognize the design under the new guise for five brass, and the game of transcription will become evident.

Third piece of advice: buy the ticket as soon as you can. The hall is small, the price is low, the date falls in the thick of the Christmas outings. The rule: ticket first, then the rest of the day.

Last: book lunch. In mid-December the trattorias of Testaccio on Sunday are full of pre-Christmas tables. A brass concert followed by a Roman lunch, with the afternoon free for the lights of the center, is the December Sunday I recommend without hesitation.

Another well-known fact, and yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that the music of Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Luis Bacalov accompanied some of the most-watched Italian films in the world. It's cited less often that this music was played, for decades, by Roman orchestra players, often the same ones, who moved from the recording studio to the symphonic concert and contemporary music. Rome was for half a century one of the capitals of film music, and its musical life was marked by it.

The PMCE and its brass quintet are heirs to this tradition. An ensemble born for contemporary music, which in October 2026 brings to the Venice Biennale an unpublished Morricone and in December plays Rota and Bacalov at Casa del Jazz, says something precise: the separation between art music and film music, in Rome, has never really held.

Another known and little-cited fact: Casa del Jazz and the Auditorium are run by the same foundation. The PMCE was born at the Auditorium, the series takes place at Casa del Jazz: the December 13 concert is a small bridge between the two venues, and a good reason for those who know only one of them to discover the other.

The right photo to take at Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

During the concert you don't take photos. The right photo is taken beforehand, and in December it's best to take it with the light of mid-morning.

The first is that of the instruments on stage before the start: trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba resting on their stands, with the polished bells under the hall's lights. Brass at rest is an extraordinary photographic subject, made of curves, reflections and metal. If staff allow it, a shot from the central row before the musicians come in is the best memento of the day.

The second is Villa Osio seen from the park avenue, with December's bare trees letting the facade show better than in summer. The third, less obvious, is the plaque with the names of the victims of the mafia at the entrance: it's not a postcard image, but it says where you are. Published with two lines of explanation, it tells Casa del Jazz better than any other.

The fourth is taken along Viale di Porta Ardeatina, with the Aurelian Walls in the background: a low frame following the line of the bricks, with the plane trees and the raking light of a winter morning.

Some important events that happened here in history

The concert's place has a layered history. The oldest layer is that of the Aurelian Walls, the 3rd-century circuit along which Viale di Porta Ardeatina runs, whose name recalls one of the gates that opened toward the south. Anyone walking from Piramide passes next to 17 centuries of the city's military history.

The second layer is that of the villa. Villa Osio was the residence of Enrico Nicoletti, identified as a member of the Banda della Magliana, the criminal organization that marked Roman crime news from the 1970s to the 1990s. The confiscation and assignment to the City of Rome is the event from which everything else comes.

The third layer is the transformation. By the will of Walter Veltroni's administration the villa became a center devoted to jazz, with a concert hall, recording studios and a guesthouse for musicians. The plaque created with Libera marks its civic meaning.

The fourth is musical. Over the years the hall has hosted summer series, autumn festivals, the concerts of the Roma Jazz Festival and the Sundays of Junctions Beyond Jazz. On December 13, 2026 the series closes with a brass quintet playing Morricone in a villa confiscated from Roman organized crime: a small event, consistent with the place's history.

Who has passed through Junctions Beyond Jazz: Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz, December 13, 2026

The hall bears the name of Armando Trovajoli, a Roman pianist and composer, a figure of Italian jazz in the 1950s and then an author of soundtracks and musicals: a name that ties jazz to the city and its stage music.

In the 2026 Junctions Beyond Jazz series, on the autumn Sundays, the double bass player and composer Massimo Ceccarelli with Lyrica and the harpist Lucia Bova with Le frontiere dell'arpa pass through. The Accademia Brass Quintet closes the series. In the quintet's program, through their music, pass three masters of Italian cinema: Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Luis Bacalov.

Behind the quintet is the PMCE, which according to the presentations of Nuova Consonanza draws on performers who have worked in close contact with composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, Unsuk Chin, Ivan Fedele, Salvatore Sciarrino, Franco Donatoni and Giorgio Battistelli. It's a list that tells 50 years of contemporary music, and which ideally enters the hall with the musicians.

Outside music, the mayor who wanted the transformation and the association Libera, which gave voice to the memory of the victims, passed through the villa. These are presences that every concert here carries with it.

Frequently asked questions about the Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz

When does the Accademia Brass Quintet play at Casa del Jazz?

The Accademia Brass Quintet plays at Casa del Jazz on Sunday, December 13, 2026 at 12:00, in the Armando Trovajoli concert hall, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55. It is the last concert of the Junctions Beyond Jazz 2026 series, curated by the Fondazione Musica per Roma.

How much is the ticket for the Accademia Brass Quintet?

The ticket for the Accademia Brass Quintet at Casa del Jazz is a single price and costs 15 euros, according to the venue's official page. It is bought from the Casa del Jazz site, which links to the presale network authorized by the organizers. For information: 06 80241281 or info@musicaperroma.it.

What does the Accademia Brass Quintet play?

The Accademia Brass Quintet's program at Casa del Jazz includes music by C. A. Kintscher, A. Constantino, F. Sulpizi, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota and Luis Bacalov: pieces from the great repertoire in a new guise for brass and world premieres written for the quintet. The program may be subject to change.

Who are the musicians of the Accademia Brass Quintet?

The Accademia Brass Quintet is the brass ensemble formed by musicians of the PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, the contemporary music ensemble of the Fondazione Musica per Roma directed by Tonino Battista. The concert's official listing doesn't give the names of the individual instrumentalists.

How do you get to Casa del Jazz by public transport?

Casa del Jazz is reached on metro B to Piramide and then almost a kilometer on foot along the Aurelian Walls, or on bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop, near the entrance. On Sundays the services follow the holiday schedule.

Is the concert suitable for children?

The Accademia Brass Quintet concert at Casa del Jazz is among the most family-friendly of the series: it takes place at noon, brass are instruments children recognize and the program includes film melodies. For the youngest it's better to avoid the front row, because brass up close is powerful.

Is Casa del Jazz accessible?

Casa del Jazz declares a design conceived for full accessibility, and the concert is listed as accessible by Roma Capitale's portal. Wheelchair users can book their place by calling 06 80241281. Reductions are provided for people with disabilities.

The final advice on the Accademia Brass Quintet

Among December's concerts in Rome, this is one of those I recommend most strongly, for a simple reason: it costs little, lasts the right amount, takes place in a location with a story to tell, and puts together the music everyone knows with music no one has heard yet. Five brass a few meters away, Morricone and Rota in a new guise, a villa given back to the city, a park in winter, a lunch in Testaccio. Nothing more is needed for a Sunday before Christmas.

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