Percussionist, Matthew Rigg, comes from a talented banding family, but the 20-year-old from Littleborough, Rochdale, is forging his own path. A respected member of Black Dyke Band, Matthew is turning heads with his impressive playing - as Mark Good found out… Read this article, featured in June 2017’s BBW, by...read more
This month Pro Practice host, Professor Roger Webster, considers how band rehearsal can inspire or demotivate playersBand Practice - what does yours fulfil? Rehearsal, training, time-wasting, a social event? Of course it is possible to satisfy several of the above in a band practice, but what are your primary goals?
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From Bath Salvation Army Band to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - David Childs catches up with trumpet ace and Bach Artist, Chris Avison…
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BBC Radio 2 has a new Young Brass Award winner in Isobel Daws - a Chetham’s student, and trombonist with Fairey Band and the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. BBW Editor, David Childs, shares his admiration for the stars of the night - the four finalists…
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Paul Bennett, tenor horn soloist and Besson Artist, spent his Easter ‘down-under’ enjoying all that the Australian and New Zealand championships had to offer. He even picked up a ‘pot’ of his own to bring home to the UK as the NZ Open Tenor Horn Champion! …
A week after the Australian...read more
The brass band movement worldwide recently lost one of its most adored English composers, arrangers and performers in Gordon Langford, who died on 18 April aged 86. BBW pays tribute to the man and his music with a little help from his friends - the MD of Chandos Records, Ralph Couzens,...read more
Norway’s Eikanger-Bjørsvik emerged from its ‘European’ wilderness to take the title for the first time in 28 years in a festival that saw Italy, Spain and Belgium sweep up the other European honours, and the UK take one youth title. Chief Contributor, Christopher Thomas, was in Oostende to witness the Brexit...read more
Thursday 15 June 2017
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