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Musicians

The Vintage Brass performs as a brass quintet.  Our members are
active in many other organizations which often creates scheduling
conflicts.  To assure that we can meet our performing obligations we
have alternate players for each instrument.

Tom Hessney	Formerly of Massachusetts. B.S. from Berklee
Trumpet	College in Boston, M.S.from University of
	Massachusetts Lowell. Member of Fred’s Big
	Band & Co., Lee County Community Band
	and Naples Symphony.
Jim Walker	Formerly of North Carolina. Graduated from
Trumpet	North Carolina State. Director of the German
	Band of Cape Coral and member of the Lee County
	Community Band.
Richard Bradstreet	Formerly of Ohio. Graduate of Ohio
French Horn	University with a Masters from Ohio
	State. Director of the Lee County
	Community Band.
Janice Hessney	Formerly of Massachusetts. B.M. from
French Horn	The Crane School of Music with a Masters from
	Simmons College in Boston. Director of
	Bands at PL Dunbar Middle School,
	Fort Myers.
Ross Mannina	Formerly of Illinois. Graduate of Roosevelt
Trombone	College. Member of the Lee County
	Community Band, German Band of Cape Coral,
	Stan Sprio Big Band of Naples.
Brian Pollitt	BS in music from Westminister College, New
Trombone	Wilmington, PA.  Masters from FGCU. Currently
	is instructor of music at LaBelle Middle School.
	Prior to that he taught at Clewiston High School.
	He was a member of the United States Wind
	Ensemble and has played for several Broadway
	style productions
Bruce Orlin	Formerly of Wisconsin. Attended Northwest
Tuba	University and studied with Arnold Jacobs.
	Member of the Tamaimi Tailgaters Dikieland
	Band, the Lee County Community Band and
	the Music Makers Show Band.

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