Features | Brass Band World

Friday 17 March 2017

High performance at Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield stands at the forefront of music education, offering a conservatoire-standard BMus Performance course blended with a university campus experience Not only did the University of Huddersfield win the Queen’s Anniversary Prize last year, enabling it to appoint Robert Adlington, formerly of Nottingham University, Chair of Contemporary Music, but...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

Historic creative merger in Birmingham

Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham School of Acting - both schools of Birmingham City University, are to unite to create a multi-disciplinary conservatoire that will enable broader, creative collaborative opportunities and provide a world-class centre for developing the next generation of performers, ready to meet the demands of today’s fast-paced creative economy. The integration...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

Get your school off to a great start!

Yamaha Music Australia is offering one school in Australia an amazing instrument giveaway and prizes to four other schools ‘Down Under’ Read more… Read this article, featured in March’s BBW, by subscribing to BBW Digital. Alternatively, subscribe to the printed magazine delivered by post: £40 (UK); £68 (Europe); £81 (Rest of the...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

Centre Band: National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand

Brand building for New Zealand Youth Band New Zealand’s National Youth Brass Band (NYBBNZ), pictured at the Te Whaea National School of Dance and Drama in Wellington just prior to its concert there on 28 January, is formed each year from the nation’s most talented young brass and percussion musicians. All under the...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

Beyond the brass band pathway

What professional paths can you follow after graduating with a music degree as a brass band instrumentalist? - Thomas Dunne cast around to see what several graduates have achieved and discovers that the options for transferring music and performance skills are plentiful Read more… Read this article, featured in March’s BBW, by...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

Yamaha expands Partner scheme to brass

At the forefront of education, Yamaha is expanding its Music Education Partner Initiative - first launched for piano students, and now offered for brass, wind and percussion in secondary schools and higher education. Read more… Read this article, featured in March’s BBW, by subscribing to BBW Digital. Alternatively, subscribe to the...read more

Friday 17 March 2017

TYB’s two decades of excellence

The Territorial Youth Band Course’s milestone 20th course under the baton of founder, Dr. Stephen Cobb - Catherine Wallis recalls the first course and finds its modern-day incarnation in rude health In the mid-1990s, Dr. Stephen Cobb had the vision to create a course that would inspire young Salvationist brass musicians, Grade...read more