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Sunday 22 April 2018

BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award 2018

Huge congratulations to Thomas Nielsen, the winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist Award. The talented cornetist gave an outstanding performance of a thoroughly entertaining programme including the polka 'Miss Blue Bonnet', 'Before the Cross' by Edward Gregson and Peter Graham's 'Whirlwind'. At just 17 years old, Thomas impressed...read more

Sunday 22 April 2018

2018 Brass in Concert draw announced

The draw has been announced for the 2018 Brass in Concert Entertainment Championship and Youth Brass in Concert Entertainment Championships. It took place at Durham Cathedral during a concert by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band presented by the Brass in Concert organisers in aid of the North of England Children's Cancer Research...read more

Sunday 22 April 2018

Flowers embrace new education partnership

The Flowers band has played for a final time in their Quedgeley based rehearsal facility. Following a studio recording this weekend, they'll begin relocating to their new home, Barbican House in the centre of Gloucester, where they'll embark on a partnership with the innovative Gloucester Academy of Music. With several rehearsal...read more

Saturday 21 April 2018

John Henry Iles honoured with a Blue Plaque

A Blue Plaque is to be unveiled in Bristol to mark the life and achievements of the great John Henry Iles. One of the most famous figures in the history of the British brass band movement is to be honoured with a Blue Plaque in his home city of Bristol....read more

Friday 20 April 2018

Cinematic Scope at 2018 Black Dyke Festival

Black Dyke’s Brass Festival, at Leeds Town Hall on 3 June this year, promises to be another highlight culminating in a Gala Concert with a World première of ‘cinematic proportion’, all of which has been made possible by National Lottery funding through the Arts Council England. The day starts with workshops...read more

Wednesday 18 April 2018

'A Brussels Requiem' for British Open

The set work for the 166th contest at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, on Saturday 8 September, will be 'A Brussels Requiem' by Belgian composer, Bert Appermont, published by Macon. Originally commissioned by Austrian band, Oberösterreich, it received its World première at the 2017 Oostende ‘European’. A newly-amended version will be performed...read more

Tuesday 17 April 2018

National Youth Championships of Great Britain

Brass Bands England has released details of the forthcoming National Youth Championships of Great Britain, which will be held for the first time at Warwick Arts Centre on Sunday, 22nd April. Usually based in Manchester and Salford, the organisers have taken the decision to move the contest to the Midlands with...read more