Southern Counties Youth Band (SCYB) Easter Residential Course with Musical Director Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Monday 10th ~ Thursday 13th April 2017 at St Catherine’s School, Bramley, Surrey
All players aged 11-18 welcome. For more info please contact normanev@hotmail.co.uk
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The 80-strong National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBB), conducted by Bramwell Tovey, will perform a diverse programme of works for brass band at The Barbican Concert Hall on Saturday 22nd April.
The concert will feature Philip Cobb (LSO principal trumpet), a former NYBB principal cornet, and Peter Moore ( LSO principal trombone), who was a founding member of the National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain, the sister band to the NYBB. The soloists will perform Denis Wright’s Concerto for Cornet, Bramwell Tovey’s Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret (trombone) and Joseph Turrin’s Fandango (trumpet and trombone.)
The programme will also feature the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’ concert suite of his award-winning Dark Arteries ballet music, Lucy Pankhurst’s Wired, Edward Gregson’s Symphony in Two Movements, and works by Joseph Horovitz, Elgar Howarth, John Ireland and Bramwell Tovey.
Tickets just £5 for under-18s and Students
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The Hawth Brass Season
Tickets: £12.75 (discounts: £11.25)
scaba members £10.75
all 6 concerts in 2016-17 Season £8.75 each
any 5 Concerts: £9.25 each
4 Concerts: £9.75 each
3 Concerts: £10.25 each
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Come along to support some of the brightest young brass banding talent in our area as Maidstone Wind Symphony is joined by former BBC Young Brass Player of the Year Matilda Lloyd and the Southern Counties Youth Band for their annual Festival of Wind and Brass in Sevenoaks this February.
MWS’s programme will include Maslanka’s Morning Star, the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto and Mackey’s Frozen Cathedral.
more information at www.maidstonewindsymphony.org
Southern Counties Youth Band (SCYB) Easter Residential Course
Tuesday 3rd ~ Friday 6th April 2018 at St Catherine’s School, Bramley, Surrey led by Ian Porthouse, MD of the Tredegar Band
Further details and application pack will be posted nearer the date
Interested in learning a brass instrument? LGB Brass Youth Band offers young brass players in the Lewes area a unique opportunity to learn a skill for life
* FREE Weekly rehearsals in term-time, Thursdays 7-7.45pm
* FREE Instrument Hire
* Professional, DBS checked tutors
* Regular concerts
Come along to All Saints this Thursday, 27th September to have a go and meet the tutors and band members.
You’re also very welcome to stay and listen to the prize-winning main band’s rehearsal which starts at 8pm.
The Southern Counties Youth Band is returning to St Catherine’s School in Bramley for its popular annual Easter Residential course from 15th – 18th April.
The course will end with a concert for families and friends at 7pm on Thursday 18th April.
Our guest conductor & course leader this year is Lee Skipsey, an experienced percussionist & band trainer and successful MD of the City of Bradford Brass Band organisation.
The course is open to ALL brass and percussion players aged 11 – 18 so please do share this with anyone you think may be interested in joining the fun!
Download your application pack here:
SCYB Residential Pack 2019
The Southern Counties Youth Band has enjoyed a great week at St Catherine’s School in Bramley for its 5th annual Easter Residential course.
Our guest conductor this year is Lee Skipsey, an experienced percussionist & band trainer and successful MD of the City of Bradford Brass Band organisation. The band has had a fun and inspiring week, working hard on some very challenging repertoire, and has put together a great concert programme. Join us at 7pm on Thursday 18th April to see the results of all their hard work.
Virtuoso performer Crispian Steel Perkins also collects and restores old trumpets upon which he has performed and recorded with The Academy of Ancient Music, The Kings Consort and The English Baroque Soloists. Appropriately, he plays the theme tune to one of the BBC’s longest-running and most popular TV programmes, the Antiques Roadshow.
In his Trumpet Shall Sound demonstration, Crispian brings some of these trumpets along and shows audiences how the instrument has developed over the centuries from ancient Egypt to modern times.
As if transported by a time machine, the entire evolution of civilised life can be traced through the medium of sound by examining the history of one of the most ancient of musical instruments – the Trumpet. From the earliest times, humans exploited the ability to communicate over great distances by blowing into an animal horn or shell. This was subsequently refined by replicating these shapes in wood and metal; the size was increased from the short trumpets of Tutankhamen to those blown at the Ancient Greek Olympics, in the Roman armies and upon the battlefields and towers of mediaeval Europe. The performance of ‘art music’ upon them evolved in the 17th century and subsequently various ingenious mechanisms facilitated to the perfection of the instrument as we now know it, retaining the nobility of it’s ceremonial past but with considerable dexterity, and great expressive capability.
All these developments and characteristics are fully explained and demonstrated in this presentation which can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages and at all levels of musical knowledge (or lack thereof!). Even experienced performers find it refreshing to be reminded of the basics of their art.
Ackerman Music is supporting this event and will have a trade stand on the day
www.ackermanusic.co.uk
EVENT CANCELLED
After careful consideration of our duty of care to participants and volunteers, and consultation with local councils and other advisors, scaba has made the difficult decision to cancel both the Southern Counties Youth Band (SCYB) Easter Residential course and the Solo, Quartet and Ensemble competition due to take place in April.
In light of increasing concerns about, and spread of, the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold these events for the young players and community bandsmen and women in our area, but I am confident that we have made the right decision based on the available information at this time.
Plans will be made to reschedule both the Youth Band course and the competition later in the year, once the situation becomes more stable.
Alex Sears
Secretary
EVENT CANCELLED
After careful consideration of our duty of care to participants and volunteers, and consultation with local councils and other advisors, scaba has made the difficult decision to cancel both the Southern Counties Youth Band (SCYB) Easter Residential course and the Solo, Quartet and Ensemble competition due to take place in April.
In light of increasing concerns about, and spread of, the COVID-19 virus, we felt this was the best way to proceed during such an unprecedented global situation. We are very disappointed that we are unable to hold these events for the young players and community bandsmen and women in our area, but I am confident that we have made the right decision based on the available information at this time.
Plans will be made to reschedule both the Youth Band course and the competition later in the year, once the situation becomes more stable.
Alex Sears
Secretary