Brass band aficionados have been spoilt for choice this year, with a diverse range of brass band albums featuring classics of the brass band repertoire, large-scale orchestral transcriptions, moving devotional music, première recordings, major brass band test-pieces, outstanding solo items, and exciting contemporary music from a wide range of superb composers...read more
We are delighted to welcome the award-winning, super talented, and highly in-demand composer and conductor, Simon Dobson, to ‘BBW’s desert island to share the tracks of his life, his favourite book and luxury item choices. Fresh from winning Brass in Concert’s ‘Best New Composition/Arrangement Award’ for Bring the Bass, premièred by...read more
With three ‘National’ wins, four British Open titles, four ‘European’ victories and a staggering eight Brass in Concert wins to her name, Ailsa Russell is one of the most decorated tenor horn players in banding. During a recent trip to the USA, where she played with the Brass Band of Battle...read more
Never one to be beaten in a market that his heart beats for and with the colour of brass is in his veins, Tim Oldroyd is the proverbial Phoenix rising above challenge, as Nicola Bland discovered Following his departure from the Company that he founded, Geneva Instruments, Tim Oldroyd forged ahead...read more
Richard Marshall and Tom Hutchinson are two of the finest cornet players on the planet. Following 20 years as principal cornet of Black Dyke, Richard is passing the torch to his friend and former student, Tom Hutchinson, who leaves Cory after 16 glorious years. Lisa Fitzgerald-Lombard, a trumpet graduate of the...read more
Monday 19 January 2026
