Nigel Clarke CD released on Naxos

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band has announced the release of their new CD of International Composer in Association Nigel Clarke‘s music. The new recording was released on April 10th via Naxos Classics and will be available on iTunes / Spotify / Amazon / Naxos Music Library / Music Download sites, and of course as hard copy discs. These CDs will be available from the band website shortly.

Conducted by the band’s Musical Director Dr David Thornton, Sandy Smith and Nigel himself, the CD features four of Nigel’s major works for Brass Band; a world premiere recording of ‘Dial ‘H’ for Hitchcock’, ‘Swift Severn’s Flood’, the wildly rhapsodic Cornet Concerto ‘Mysteries of the Horizon’ featuring Belgian cornetist Harman Vanhoorne, and ‘Earthrise’.

Nigel Clarke studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, where he was awarded the Academy’s highest distinction, the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. In the past he has held positions as composer in residence at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and contemporary music tutor at the Royal Academy of Music as well as being the band’s International Composer in Association.

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