SDG Brass Band

The SDG Brass Band is pleased to announce that our 8 th Annual Festival will be held this year on Sunday, September 30, 2018 , at the Betel Romanian Baptist Church.  The address is 330 W. Touhy Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068. The Festival will have two sessions: (1) a United Band morning presentation @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm, during which players from many cities and Churches of United States and Canada will join forces and play together as “one,” and (2) an Individual Band presentation @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, during which various bands will present their own song selections. The Festival will be preceded by four all-day rehearsals on September 8, 15, 22, and 29. For the United Band presentation, we anticipate learning and playing a rich repertoire of brand new songs, including Festival-specific arrangements, by contemporary composers Teodor Caciora, Cristi Holerga, Remus Moroșan, Joshua Popovici, and brothers Brandon and Steven Giurgiu. We pray that this event will be yet another s...

  Festival 2017 – October 15, 2017 Chicago – 10:00 AM: Our 7th Annual Festival will be held on Sunday, October 15, at the Betel Romanian Baptist Church, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm. The address is 330 W. Touhy Avenue. Park Ridge, Illinois 60068. As special guest, we have the pleasure of welcoming back fratele Puiu Muntean – director at Șiria, Arad. The song selection will consist primarily of new arrangements by fratele Muntean, as well as new arrangements by our own treasured arrangers – fratele Remus Moroșan and fratele Joshua Popovici. After the morning service, we further tentatively plan to have presentations by individual brass bands during an afternoon service 3:00-6:00 pm.

By the grace of God, the SDG Brass Band will serve on November 13 in the morning worship service at Alleluia Romanian Pentecostal Church (Detroit). The address is 4470 Pardee Rd., Dearborn Heights, MI, 48125 (www.alleluiaro.com). This should be our concluding event for 2016, after a rich feast in Europe and at the Chicago Festival. We look forward to reconnecting with friends and family near the Canadian border! To all this, we can’t help but say, not just Gloria, not just Deo Gloria, but SOLI DEO GLORIA!

We are happy to announce that the 2016 – 6th – Festival will take place on Sunday, October 9, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, at Betel Romanian Baptist Church.  For those that can make it in person, the address is 330 W. Touhy Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068. Our special guests include the Elim Brass Band from Timișoara, Romania (Biserica Penticostală Elim), along with Band Director, fr. Rafa Olariu.  It is a great privilege to have this 45-player group participate in the Festival, and to have  Fr. Olariu conduct one of the Festival songs.  The approval of the group’s travel visas is a major factor for making the Festival a success for God’s glory!  The Elim Brass Band will also praise the Lord with their own individual songs during the evening service at Betel Romanian Baptist Church (4:00 – 6:00 pm). Additionally, we are further privileged to have fr. Puiu Muntean from Șiria, Arad, travel to the U.S. and conduct other Festival songs. Please pray that the songs and the ...

The SDG Brass Band will be recording its forth CD album on June 24-27 of 2015, with a final live concert performed on June 28, 2015, during the morning service of Betel Romanian Baptist Church (330 W. Touhy Avenue, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068).  After a busy year, in 2014, with concerts in Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Canada, and the United States, our focus in 2015 will shift primarily to memorializing recent additions to the repertoire.  The new CD will consist of pieces such as “Soundings For The Vault Of The Sky” (arranged by Remus Moroșan), “New Jerusalem” (arranged by Doru Chifan), “Un Cor Îngeresc” (arranged by Romi Bujdei), “Crucea-I Slava Ta – Evanghelia” (arranged by Cristi Holerga), “Ascultă Doamne” (arranged by Traian Fărcaș), as well as other selections.  We are hopeful that these recordings will further serve as testimony for believers and non-believers, alike, that Christ is King! The recordings will take place primarily at Betel Romanian Baptist Church, with so...

SDG Brass Band announces its upcoming trip to Atlanta, Georgia, in response to the warm invitation extended by Rev. Titi Cocian, pastor of the First Romanian Baptist Church of Atlanta (“FRBC Atlanta”).  A celebratory service will be held on the morning of November 9, 2014 (Sunday), at 1280 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Rd. Northwest, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043 ( www.frbcatlanta.org ), during which Rev. Valentin Popovici will preach the Gospel and the SDG Brass Band will praise the Lord with a suite of songs selected from the recent Festival and Europe trip.  The service is part of FRBC Atlanta’s extended celebration of its 30-Year Anniversary.