The Colorado College Music Department welcomes Hint of Lime Brass to Packard Hall for a performance beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 17. Admission is free and open to the public.

Hint of Lime Brass trio features Sarah Ford, horn; Nicole Gillotti, trumpet; and Morgan Fite, trombone. Since debuting in spring 2020, Hint of Lime Brass has aimed to create experiences of vast musical variety for diverse audiences while advocating for the creation and performance of new music.

About Sarah Ford:

In September 2016, Sarah Ford joined the Colorado Springs Philharmonic as part of the horn section. Subsequently, Sarah began teaching horn at the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, Colorado College, and Colorado State University - Pueblo. She performs regularly with local groups such as the Boulder Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, and the Classical Brass Quintet in Littleton, CO. Before moving cross-country to Colorado, Sarah earned her Master of Music from the Yale School of Music and her Bachelor of Music degree from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has studied with some of the great horn pedagogues; Denise Tryon, Eric Reed, Bill Purvis, and Radek Baborák in the Czech Republic, to name a few. During her summers, Sarah teaches at the Colorado Springs’ Summer Brass program and has participated in the National Repertory Orchestra, Crested Butte Music Festival, Pierre Monteux School, National Music Festival, Kennedy Center Summer Music Institute, and other programs.

About Nicole Gillotti:

Nicole Gillotti joined the faculty of Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) in 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Trumpet where she teaches courses in Applied Trumpet, Brass Ensemble, Brass Methods, and Music Appreciation. She hopes to guide her students on their musical journey to attain their goals. She currently performs with the Laredo Philharmonic, Valley Symphony, Groove Knight (party band), and TAMIU Faculty Jazz Combo. Gillotti was previously the Trumpet Studio Teaching Assistant at Illinois State University and the University of Illinois, where she was a Faculty Sabbatical Replacement in which she taught music majors, minors, and non-majors, presented masterclasses to the trumpet studio on pedagogical topics and orchestral excerpts, and coached student chamber groups. In addition to teaching, Gillotti is an active freelance musician. She has performed with many professional ensembles including the University of Illinois Graduate Brass Quintet, Illinois State University Faculty Brass Quintet, Transit Brass Octet, Illinois Consortium Quintet, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Millikin-Decatur Symphony, University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and Berks Sinfonietta. Gillotti has performed at conferences, festivals, and competitions throughout the United States and Europe. She competed as a semi-finalist in the undergraduate and graduate solo divisions for the National Trumpet Competition in 2014, 2015, and 2016; as well as the Ensemble Division in 2018. Gillotti received a B.S. in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, M.M. in Trumpet Performance from Illinois State University, and D.M.A. in Trumpet Performance and Literature from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About Morgan Fite:

Morgan Fite is a low brass specialist in New York City, where he can be heard performing on bass trombone, tenor trombone, tuba, and euphonium. Morgan is primarily a chamber musician who is equally comfortable in the realm of orchestral, big band, and contemporary music. As a chamber musician, he was a founding member of the brass quintet subtle cheetah, who were a part of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Mentorship program from 2018-2019.

As an orchestral musician, Morgan has performed with the Chelsea Symphony, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Westchester Oratorio Society, and the MSM Chamber Sinfonia, to name a few. He has also performed in most of the major concert halls in New York including Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Morgan is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music’s orchestral performance program, where he was the recipient of the Charles Grossman Memorial Scholarship. He also holds degrees from the Mannes School of Music and Rutgers University. In the summers Morgan has attended the Atlantic Music Festival as their tenor trombone fellow, the Miami Summer Music Festival, the Southeast Trombone Symposium, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. His primary teachers were John Rojak, Nick Schwartz, George Curran, and Paul Pollard.

For more information about the concert or about parking at CC for music events, contact the Music Office at (719) 389-6545 or music@coloradocollege.edu. Visit www.coloradocollege.edu/music to learn more about the CC Music Department.

Colorado College welcomes participants with disabilities. Contact the Music Office to request accommodations. Advance notice may be necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.