Elgar International Winter School

The inaugural Elgar International 'Winter School' will be held in December. The new initiative has been created owing to popular demand that led to an oversubscribed 'Summer School' for 2024. The residential course will be led by conductor Paul Holland, the MD of Flowers Band and held at Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire from Monday 16th to Thursday 19th December.

The new 'Elgar International Brass Band Winter School' (EIBBWS) will be supported by tutors Mark Wilkinson, Jonathan Bates, Daniel Thomas, Christopher Thomas, Les Neish and Steve Jones. It is understood that the course will have a 'festive' flavour but also offer the opportunity to rehearse and perform challenging works in addition to new compositions for brass band.

Course Director, Carole Crompton stated, "We are very excited to announce the latest addition to our 2024 portfolio and feel that the Winter School will bring a festive and challenging twist to our existing course offers. We were keen to work with Paul once more, as the delegate feedback that we received from his debut course in 2022 was very positive."

Applications open today (17th of February) with further details and the application form available at www.eibbws.org.uk 

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