EYBB Palanga 2024
All the delegates, from the 15 countries represented in EBBA, are in the process of nominating the players to be part of the EYBB 2024, with final nominations being made by 1st December. After 1 December, EBBAs music commission will go through the nomination list and listen to the audition videos as they create the European Youth Brass Band for 2024. The EYBB is a great opportunity for talented young brass players to play and develop together at a European level for one week and perform as a full brass band on various occasions during the European Brass Band Championships 2024, including the European Composer Competition concert, Opening Ceremony and the Grand Gala Concert. EBBA are delighted to announce Philip Harper as EYBB’s musical director. Philip Harper became Musical Director of the Cory Band in 2012. Since then, he has won all the major trophies, including an unprecedented Grand Slam of major titles in 2016, repeated in 2019: the European, the British Open, the Nationals and Brass in Concert, all won in a single calendar year.
Philip won the coveted 4barsrest.com Conductor of the Year Award in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020. In recent years he was a guest conductor of the Manger Musikklag Band in Norway, the National Youth Brass Bands of Great Britain, Switzerland and Wales and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Symphonic Brass, amongst many others. In 2021 he was awarded the Iles Medal by the Worshipful Company of Musicians for his services to brass bands, and in 2023 was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. A resident of Gloucester, Philip was the Editor of Brass Band World magazine between 2009 and 2015 and, since 2005 has been the Music Editor of the historic Wright and Round publishing company. Philip is a prolific composer, and his original works and arrangements are played all over the world. In 2016 he composed ‘A Shakespearean Triptych’ for a 650-strong joint ensemble and choir conducting the first performance in a packed Royal Albert Hall at the Last Night of the Schools Prom.
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