Congratulations to trumpeter Ashley Hall-Tighe, who has recently been appointed to the world’s pre-eminent brass quintet, Canadian Brass. An accomplished international soloist, Principal Trumpet of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Ashley becomes the second-ever woman to join Canadian Brass after Manon...read more
At a recent ‘Last Night of the Proms Concert’ Adrian Harvey, the MD of Sidmouth Town Band, received a special presentation in recognition of his outstanding musical leadership for the past 25 years. The event at Connaught Gardens was compered by television’s Jeremy Vine and Adrian was presented with an engraved...read more
'Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra' by Gavin Higgins will receive its Norwegian premiere next month. The South Bank Sky Arts Classical Music and Royal Philharmonic Society Award winning work will be performed by the Stavanger Symfoniorkester alongside Stavanger Brass Band on Thursday 21st September at the city's major Konserthus...read more
A special breakout session at The Brass Band Conference 2023 will offer delegates the chance to attend a talk about the development of the Brass Bands Archive (BBA) as well as participate in a guided tour of the Strong Room and view a temporary exhibition of brass band memorabilia. The Brass...read more
BBE's popular safeguarding programme, BandSafe, is to be rolled out to the wider music community thanks to new partnerships with membership organisations Making Music and Music Mark. A Make Music Safe scheme launched this month, serving Making Music’s 4,000 members with safeguarding information, support and training for their music group. A...read more
Scottish composer Eddie McGuire’s five astronomy-inspired pieces of music have never been played before as a complete series but on the opening evening of the Orkney International Science Festival on Thursday 7 September they will be heard together, and the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland will be performing one of...read more
Congratulations to the organising committee behind the 2021 Festival of Brass on being selected as a finalist in the ‘Best Community or Not-for-profit Event 2023 - Over 3000 participants’ category in the 2023 NZEA New Zealand Event Awards.
The number of entries in this year’s Awards was the highest ever, so...read more
Saturday 26 August 2023
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