Connaught Brass wins the Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition

Connaught Brass, a quintet from London, are the winners of the inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition held at the RNCM last weekend.
 
The group comprising five final year students from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, impressed the panel of adjudicators: Reinhold Friedrich, Barbara Butler, Roger Harvey, Oren Marshall and Froydis Ree Wekre to win the £10,000 Philip Jones Prize. RET Chamber Brass from Austria were placed second winning £7,500 Marah Mahlowe Prize and London Metropolitan Brass took the £5,000 third placed Founder's Prize.
 
Connaught Brass, including trumpets, Aaron Akugbo and Harry Plant, horn, Robyn Blair, trombone, Chris Brewster and tuba, Aled Meredith-Barrett, opened their 40 minute programme with Sven-David Sandstrom's 'Heavy Metal', continuing with James Macmillan's three-part 'Adam's Rib'and ending with a selection from 'Porgy & Bess'by Gershwin.

For more news, features, articles and reviews, subscribe to BBW Digital, available to read online (annual subscription: £30), or subscribe to BBW's printed magazine delivered by post: £40 (UK); £68 (Europe); £81 (Rest of the World). Alternatively, receive both the Digital and printed editions combined: £55 (UK); £83 (Europe); £96 (rest of the world) - saving 50% on the Digital edition. Click here to subscribe!