The Yorkshire Imperial Metals Urqhuart Travel Band is delighted to announce the appointment of Simon Gresswell as Musical Director with immediate effect. Simon has enjoyed an extremely successful playing career, including stints at Brighouse and Rastrick, Black Dyke, the Fairey band and Yorkshire Building Society. More recently he has been concentrating...read more
The results of the inaugural BrassFestUK Entertainment Contest have been announced. The competition took place across three unregistered sections: Development Bands - all players have been playing for less than 2 years, Youth Bands - all players under 19 years old and Training Bands - all other unregistered bands. Following this...read more
The schedule and adjudicators for the Yorkshire Regional Brass Band Championships 2019 has been announced. Saturday, 2nd March 2019Commence 9.15amThird Section: Adjudicators: Sheona Wade and Dr David ThorntonFourth Section: Adjudicators: Alan Duguid and Sandy SmithFirst Section: Adjudicators: Howard Evans and Gary Davies Sunday, 3rd March 2019Commence 10.00amSecond Section: Adjudicators: Howard...read more
Following the success of the inaugural competition, A4 Brass is delighted to announce the launch of their 2nd composition competition. The ensemble has had an exciting 2018, winning the Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Music Competition, working with City Music Foundation and becoming Honorary Artists in Association at the Royal Northern College...read more
Brass Bands England (BBE) has announced that, for the first time in the organisation’s history, it is to offer a method of membership dedicated to student bands. The offer has been developed in conjunction with the UniBrass Foundation, the charity that exists to support the development of university banding and is...read more
Thursday 1 November 2018
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