Features | Brass Band World

Thursday 7 April 2016

European Championship preview

In this month’s BBW Award-winning composer, Paul McGhee, previews the European Brass Band Championships’ Challenge, Premier and Development Youth section test-pieces, in advance of the Lille-based competition. Those pieces are: Challenge Section: Samson - Symphonic Poem for Brass Band by Rodolphe Schacher Premier Youth Section: Olympus by Philip Harper Development Youth Section:...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Pro-Platform: David Childs interviews Chris Evans

David Childs catches up with Christopher Evans, former Brighouse and Rastrick tubist and, for the last 25 years, Principal Tuba of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Having cut your brass playing teeth in Shrewsbury during the early 70’s, can you tell us a little about those early years, your influences, and what led...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Katrina Marzella meets Erik Jansen

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Brass Band World’s version of Desert Island Discs and this month's castaway is Dutch conductor, Erik Janssen Later this month, Erik will lead the 14th European Youth Brass Band (EYBB) at the European Championships in Lille, France. His appointment at the EYBB is welcome...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Young Voice – Thomas Fountain

Cornet star, Thomas Fountain, will join the European Youth Brass Band in Lille later this month. He first picked up an instrument at the age of three and the 19-year-old has come a long way since those early days. His sights are now set firmly on reaching the lofty heights of...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Regionals’ final cut

In this month’s BBW, we bring a final overview, with photo gallery, of the Midlands, London and Southern Counties, Welsh, West of England and North of England Championships, plus the Scottish Championships, compiled by Christopher Thomas with contributors David Childs, Mark Good, Steve Jack and Paul McGhee. To read this extensive feature,...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Exclusive Interview with Philip Cobb

Dr. Rodney Newton chats to prodigious talent and brass musician of the moment, Philip Cobb - Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra - about his life, career and his continuing relationship with brass bands To occupy the principal trumpet chair of one of the world's leading symphony orchestras is something many...read more

Thursday 7 April 2016

Brisbane Excelsior victorious down-under

Australian-born Brenden Wheeler, Assistant Director of Music of the Band and Bugles of the Rifles, brings all the action from Down Under Every Easter weekend, the Australian brass band community comes together for the country’s sole major event: the Yamaha National Brass Band Championships. South Australia was the host state, with the...read more