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Thursday 2 September 2021

Farr to feature at Higham Hall

Besson Artist Owen Farr will be a featured guest tutor later this year at the 2021 Higham Hall 'Brass Band Weekend'. Owen will be joined by Andy Kershaw (tuba) and Martyn Grisdale (cornet) for the weekend, taking place from Friday 29th October to Sunday 31st October. The event is for brass...read more

Thursday 2 September 2021

New Flugelhorn at Fairey’s

Fairey’s has welcomed Nicóla Shaw as the band’s new Flugelhorn player. Nicóla joins having completed eight successful years with Wingates Band. Her main highlights with the band include being chosen as the featured soloist at the recent Brass Pass Festival (Halifax) in July, along with the opportunity to perform in some...read more

Sunday 29 August 2021

Calling all ex-Sun Life (Stanshawe) Players

The trustees and players of the much loved and sadly missed Sun Life (Stanshawe) Band are planning a re union to keep the bands memory in the limelight and to meet up with old friends. The event will be held on the weekend of the 27th and 28th November in Wootten-Under-Edge....read more

Sunday 29 August 2021

The NYBBGB Weston Conductors’ Competition is now open for entries

The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, the UK’s leading brass bands for children and young people which next year celebrates its 70th anniversary, has just announced their first ever Conductors’ Competition is now open for entries. This, the Band’s inaugural conductors’ competition, supported by the Garfield Weston Foundation, is...read more

Friday 27 August 2021

Fritze wins BrookWright Prize

The much awaited results of the inaugural BrookWright International Brass Ensemble Composer Competition 2021 (IBECC) have been announced. Receiving the Overall Prize, awarded by the judges James Curnow, Dr. Liz Lane and Paul Hindmarsh, is American composer Gregory Fritze. His work ‘Cool Bop’, for brass quintet, is written in the style...read more

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Cooperation band Youth Solo Competition

The cooperation band recently held its own very successful online Youth Solo Contest, with winner of the Advanced Section, Lewis Blackwood, being invited to perform with the Scottish Champion as a guest soloist when they return to the concert stage later this year. A spokesperson for the contest stated, "The event...read more

Tuesday 24 August 2021

Ashman wins Davison Young Musician Award

Virtuosi GUS Band and NYBBGB percussionist, Jordan Ashman, is the winner of the 2021 Davison Young Musician Award. He received his award from patron of the Davison Young Musicians Award, Commodore Duncan Lustig-Prean, at Ely Cathedral on August 12, 2021. Jordan, from Milton, performed his winning piece – Hombre d’Août by...read more