Sotto Voce has three recordings on the Summit Records label: Consequences, Viva Voce: The Quartets of John Stevens, and Refractions: Old & New Music for Low Brass.
The ensemble maintains an active international touring schedule throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In 2006, they performed concerts in Germany, California, Alabama (with the Mobile Symphony) and served as the quartet-in-residence at the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Denver. They have also been invited to give a concert and clinic at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Devoted to education, Sotto Voce hosts a tuba quartet symposium where they work closely with four invited quartets from around the world.
The artists who make up the quartet have widely diverse careers in music and are regularly in demand as performers, composers, and clinicians. Demondrae Thurman is the Assistant Professor of Tuba/Euphonium at the University of Alabama and maintains a very active solo euphonium career. His solo CD Soliloquies is available on Summit Records. Demondrae also appears regularly with the Atlanta Symphony and Brass Band of Battle Creek. Mark Carlson has recently joined the Sotto Voce Quartet after completing his doctoral degree in euphonium performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his time in Madison, he spent a year in Oulu, Finland working with renowned euphoniumist, Jukka Myllys. Nat McIntosh is the tubist with the Dallas Brass and is probably best known as the founder and sousaphonist with the Young Blood Brass Band. He also teaches tuba and euphonium at the University of Nevada—Las Vegas. Mike Forbes is perhaps best known for his many compositions and arrangements and is a Carl Fischer Band Composer. He has served on a number of music faculties and was a member of the U.S. Army Band, “Pershing’s Own.” Today, he maintains an active freelance career as a conductor and soloist and his solo CD Forbes Plays Koetsier is available from Summit Records.
Sotto Voce is proud to perform on Miraphone Instruments.
Refractions: Old & New Music for Low Brass
Viva Voce: The Quartets of John Stevens
Consequences - Sotto Voce's premiere album