‘Pressures for Freshers’ - This month, BBW Pro Practice host and Besson Artist, Professor Roger Webster, offers wisdom to daunted music freshers embarking on the new academic term.
The new academic year is now underway, with schools and colleges back in full swing. For music students and, in particular, for our ‘brass...read more
There’s something for everyone at Brass in Concert Festival, which continues to attract financial backers and audience popularity. This year’s stellar programme of artists, bands, judges and events is no exception.
The 41st Brass in Concert Festival (BiC), held in association with Yamaha, Banks Group and British Bandsman at the Sage Gateshead...read more
One of New Zealand’s leading orchestral composers, Ken Young, started playing euphonium with Woolston Band and went on to be principal tuba with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) for 25 years until 2001, before launching a conducting career in Australasia, Japan and Europe, as well as a composing career. Recently...read more
Pemberton Old Wigan DW Band has a long and outstanding history dating back to 1883, when a group of players known as
The Blue Jackets Band formed the bulk of the Old Volunteer Corps, later known as the Wigan Rifles, which in turn became a corps of the Territorial Army…
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The 28th Besson Swiss Open Contest, held
in the Lucerne’s Culture and Convention Centre (KKL), saw the Brass Band Bürgermusik Luzern, conducted by Michael Bach, claim its seventh success since the first edition of this competition in 1990. Regis Gobet was there to savour every performance.
The Besson Swiss Open Contest 2017, which...read more
The famous Besson name is currently celebrating 180 years of brass instrument development that has had a huge impact on peformance and sound worldwide. BBW brings the Besson success story, and an array of top-line players and Besson artists pay their personal tributes. In 1837, however, Gustave Auguste Besson, aged just...read more
Monday 9 October 2017
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