Pioneering North American champion

This month's Centre Band: Atlantic Brass

Formed in 1984, in the Greater Philadelphia/southern region of New Jersey by Yorkshire-born Herb Roselle, the newly crowned North American champion, Atlantic Brass Band, encompasses professional musicians, professors, educators, engineers, finance workers, small business owners and students.

MD, Salvatore Scarpa, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, is a faculty member at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, as well as Assistant Conductor of the Pennsylvania Ballet. Assistant MD/principal cornet, Dr. Bryan Appleby-Wineberg, is a Professor of Trumpet and Head of Brass at the same university. The latter has also played with Brighouse and Rastrick during a sabbatical in 2009/10 and is a tutor at the North American Brass Band Summer School.

Read this article in full, together with Joel Collier's report from the North American Brass Band Championships in Fort Wayne, where a continued surge in the number of competitors underpinned the rude health of North American banding, featured in April’s BBW, by subscribing to BBW Digital. Alternatively, subscribe to the printed magazine delivered by post: £40 (UK); £68 (Europe); £81 (Rest of the World)