Two students from the Aspen Music Festival and School died Monday night in a car accident near Rock Springs, Wyoming, the festival’s president said Tuesday.
“It’s hit everyone here very hard,” Alan Fletcher said. “They were just super guys. Everybody loved them.”
Ben Darneille, 21, a tuba player, and Alex Greene, 23, who played the trumpet, were both members of the fellowship brass quintet Rendezvous Brass, according to a post on the music school’s Facebook page. The quintet played atop Aspen Mountain at the Sundeck and Harris Hall.
Darneille was from Rochester, Illinois, and attended DePaul University in Chicago, while Greene studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, said Laura Smith, a spokeswoman for the festival. Information on Greene’s hometown was not available Tuesday.
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