Virtuoso Music for Winds and Piano

The premiere of “Uncoiling” for oboe and piano by Jennifer Fowler takes place on Thursday 23rd February 2012, 7.30 pm at St Mary’s Church, Church End, Walthamstow, London ,E17 9RJ (nearest Tube: Walthamstow Central (Victoria Line)). The piece is unusual, in that it was commissioned by the Music in the Village audience!

The programme will also include dramatic and atmospheric works by Poulenc, Lalliet, Francaix, & Saint-Saens (the impressive ‘Bassoon Concerto’).

Marios Argiros (oboe)
Ursula Leveaux (bassoon)
Caroline Clemmow (piano)

Tickets are £12 (£6 concessions).

For further details, please call 020 8223 8772 or visit www.walthamsoft.com/villagemusic

Wednesday 15^th February 2012

THE CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

Conducted by Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs

We are delighted to welcome the Central Band of the Royal Air Force under the direction of Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs as they present a programme of contemporary music for wind. The Central Band have long been considered one of the world’s great wind ensembles and the university are proud in the knowledge that membership of the band includes Salford music graduates.

We are also delighted that the Salford Music and Performing Arts Service Wind Band, together with our own University Wind Band will be featured in a massed item. A highlight of the afternoon will be the performance of entries from the three finalists in the Salford-BASBWE Wind Band Composers Competition. The winning composition will be announced at the conclusion of the concert.

(The Band plays by permission of the Air Force Board of the Defence Council)

Maxwell Hall 3.00pm

Admission free but strictly by ticket only

Tickets available from:

Harriet Morgan-Shami
University of Salford
Development and Events
Faraday House
Salford
M5 4WT
0161 295 9003
h.morgan1@salford.ac.uk
www.salford.ac.uk/arts

Full Programme:

CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
(by permission of the Air Force Boards of the Defence Council)
Conducted by
Wing Commander Duncan J G Stubbs M Mus FRSM ARCM LGSM RAF

Processional from ‘Pride of a Nation’ Duncan Stubbs

National Anthem

Their Finest Hour Nigel Clarke

To Lusher with Love John Martindale
Trombone feature

Competition piece 1

Hymn of Endless Light (Premiere performance) Paul Mealor

Competition piece 2

Golden Wedding Traditional arr Jones/Stubbs
Clarinet feature

Competition piece 3

Rhapsody in Lower Case (Premier performance) Paul Hart
Tuba Soloist: Corporal John Truscott

Presentation of Winning Composition

Malaguena Lucuona arr Sammy Nestico

RAF March Past Dyson/Davies

REYNARD MUSIC
presents

ADVANCED CONCERT BAND WEEKEND
Musical Director: JOHN GREAVES

19:00 Friday dinner, 16^th March to Sunday ~16:30 tea, 18^th March, 2012

Middle Aston Leadership Centre, Middle Aston, Bicester, OX25 5PT (between Oxford & Banbury)

This is a weekend for Grade 8+ players and essentially one per part (4 flutes plus piccolo, Eb clarinet plus 6 Bb’s, Alto, 2 basses & Bb/Eb contra, 3 cornets and 2 trumpets, AATTB saxophones, bass clef trombones, Bb or bass clef euphonium, bass clef tubas, string bass, timps and percussion (you need your own instruments)).

There will be a high level of challenge in the music – pieces such as David Bedford’s “Sun paints rainbows…”, David Maslanka’s “Child’s Garden of Dreams”, Christopher Marshall’s “L’Homme Armeé” and Roger May’s “Sketches from the Great Wall”.

John Greaves is an outstanding and inspirational conductor: he took his Wind Orchestra to a Gold Award five years in succession at the National Concert Band Festival and to Outstanding Awards at the National Festival of Music for Youth. He is a previous conductor of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales and is in high demand for summer residencies nationwide.

Featuring cordon bleu cooking, en-suite rooms and friendly staff within a 17^th Century manor house, Middle Aston offers deluxe accommodation amongst 20 acres of rolling grassland, woods and lake with views over the Oxfordshire hills.

www.middleastonhouse.com

CHARGES (subject to inflation) (all deluxe en-suite rooms, dinner, bed, breakfast & lunch plus refreshments Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon)

Shared: £280
Single: £320
Non-resident: £190
Saturday only (incl. lunch, dinner & evening playing): £100
Sunday only (incl. roast lunch): £70
Non-player, sharing: £220

To book your place, please contact the organiser, Michael Watkins, on 01604 845885 or email reynard@dpmail.co.uk

More information here: http://reynard.dpwww.co.uk/12-03Aston-ACB-Description.html
Booking form: http://reynard.dpwww.co.uk/12-03Aston-ACB-Booking.html

Harmonie Concert Band presents:

Sporting tracks

As part of The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad

Saturday 3rd March 2012

Harmonie are priviledged to have been selected to take part in the Music Nation event as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. We will be joined by 4 local groups to present a celebration of the Olympics. All the music will be connected with the Games. Some of it will have been composed specifically as theme tunes from particular years while other pieces will embrace the spirit of the Games.

We are particularly proud and excited to be premiering,“ Olympic Hero”, a piece written specially for this event by a member of the band, Chris Holley.

Harmonie have been part of Making Music’s, “ Adopt a Composer”, scheme and our composer Aaron Parker has written, “ Dancing Rings”, for us. This will also be premiered on the night.

We will be joined by The Julie Noble School of Dance, St. Joseph’s School Choir, The Arthur Bugler School African Drum Group and St. Bernard’s Chamber Choir.

Venue

The concert will be performed at Grays Civic Hall, Blackshots Lane, Grays. Essex. RM16 2JU starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are £5 available in advance through:

enquiries@harmonie.org.uk

Tickets will also be available on the door.

in association with the BASBWE Education Trust

5 – 12 August 2012

Timothy Reynish, Mark Heron & Russell Cowieson

This course is for conductors at the intermediate and advanced levels with an interest in wind music. Up to twenty-five students will be accepted as “active” participants. Observers are also encouraged and will be fully involved in general technique sessions, discussions and playing in the class ensemble, but they will only conduct at the discretion of the tutors. An important feature of this course is that all active participants receive podium timeon each day of the course.

The class will explore conducting techniques, score preparation, rehearsal and training skills. A CD and score library will be available for reference and special emphasis will be placed on extending the knowledge of repertoire at all levels. One session of the week will be devoted to grade 1 – 3 pieces. All conducting sessions will be videod for review during the course and participants receive a DVD of their work at the end of the week. The course will run concurrently with the Wind Ensemble and there will be close liaison between the two. Only £500.00 (Euro 580.00 $775.00) for seven nights full board, and full tuition fees

Saint Saens Orient et Occident, Ticheli Postcard,  Woolfenden Gallimaufry, Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite, Bennett Morning Music, Strauss Suite in B flat, Op.4, Gorb Dances from Crete, Mozart Serenade in C minor, K375, Ellerby New World Dances, Ticheli Concerto for Clarinet.

Wind Ensemble

in association with BASBWE

5 – 12 August 2012

Timothy Reynish, Mark Heron & Russell Cowieson

The Wind Ensemble is designed for experienced amateurs and students to play and study significant repertoire written during the last four centuries. A regular feature will be chamber music as well as wind ensemble playing. Some of the repertoire will be studied in depth and form the basis for one or more of the several concerts the Wind Orchestra gives during the week. The remainder will be played in repertoire sessions. Reference should also be made to the pieces listed for the BASBWE Wind Band Conductors’ Course.

Only £500.00 (Euro 580.00 $775.00) for seven nights full board, and full tuition fees

Gorb, Dances from Crete, Bennett  Morning Music, Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947), Ellerby New World Dances, Holst Suite in E flat, Op.28, No.1, Saint Saens Orient et Occident, Binney London Pageant, MyoshiSecret Rites, Copland Emblems, Meechan The Karman Line.

Wednesday 15^th February 2012

THE CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

Conducted by Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs

We are delighted to welcome the Central Band of the Royal Air Force under the direction of Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs as they present a programme of contemporary music for wind. The Central Band have long been considered one of the world’s great wind ensembles and the university are proud in the knowledge that membership of the band includes Salford music graduates.

We are also delighted that the Salford Music and Performing Arts Service Wind Band, together with our own University Wind Band will be featured in a massed item. A highlight of the afternoon will be the performance of entries from the three finalists in the Salford-BASBWE Wind Band Composers Competition. The winning composition will be announced at the conclusion of the concert.

(The Band plays by permission of the Air Force Board of the Defence Council)

Maxwell Hall 3.00pm

Admission free but strictly by ticket only

Archbishop Beck Catholic College Music program has experienced great success over many years. And 2011 has been no exception and culminated in a special visit to the College by an Australian High school Symphonic Band.

At the beginning of December the College welcomed the Camberwell High School Symphonic Band, from Melbourne Australia. They presented a combined concert in the College sports hall, but before that they were treated to a local dish, appropriately called “scouse” when both groups had a musician’s tea.

Director of Music Bruce Hicks at Archbishop Beck, (himself an Australian), spoke highly of the event and of the very entertaining and rewarding time both groups had together. The players then joined together to play an item en masse – with well over 80 players performing a Merseyside Anthem “You will never walk alone”, led by members of the College Chamber Choir. A truly outstanding evening of Music

The BASBWE London Festival – 24th March 2012

Call for New Works

Uk resident composers of any age and background are asked to submit previously unperformed pieces up to 6 minutes long for Wind Orchestra.

Shortlisted works will be rehearsed by participant bands of BASBWE London Festival 2012 and performed during the festival.

The successful composers are to be partnered with their own band for the rehearsal period leading up to the premiere thus making this a truly collaborative and learning project

The winning composer will receive £100 from Environ Music, a £500 honorarium from BASBWE to produce a new work for another BASBWE Festival and the piece will be considered for publication by Brasswind Publications.

The judging panel – Peter Meechan, Jeffery Wilson, Spencer Down and a publisher representative.

Deadline for submission of scores 12pm Monday 16th January 2012. by email to:-

Environ Music

environmusic@hotmail.com

Competition Rules

1. The competition is open to all UK resident composers.

2. The piece entered must be a previously unperformed piece.

3. Instrumentation must be for wind/concert band as outlined below:

2 Flutes (piccolo optional) 2 Oboe (cor anglais optional), 2 Bassoon, 3 Clarinets Bb, Bass Clarinet, 2 Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, 4 Trumpets Bb, 4 Horns in F, 3 Trombones, Euphonium, Tuba, Percussion (3 players)

4. Maximum duration is 6 minutes.

5. The judges will be Peter Meechan, Jeffery Wilson, Spencer Down and a representative from Brasswind Publications.

6. Entries should be submitted via email to:

environmusic@hotmail.com

Format: sibelius or PDF files accompanied by a midi file recording. No instrumental parts are required at this stage, though the finalists will be asked to produce parts.

7. Entries must be received by 12pm Monday 16th January, 2012.

8. A minimum of 4 finalists will be selected for performance at the BASBWE London Festival 2012. The composers of the selected pieces will be partnered with performing bands and will have the opportunity to attend rehearsals and refine their music before the premiere performance at the festival. The winning composition will be announced at the Gala Concert of BASBWE London Festival 2012.

9. The winning composer will receive a £100 award from Environ Music, a £500 honararium from BASBWE on production of a new work for another BASBWE Festival and the piece will be considered for publication by Brasswind Publications.

10. The decision of the judges will be final.

Essex-based Harmonie Concert Band is seeking a new Musical Director from summer 2012

The band traces its origins back to 1976, and currently has around 50 active members. We rehearse weekly in Rayleigh, Essex, with a wide repertoire of classics, popular and light music, marches, and music from films and shows, as well as more demanding works written or arranged specifically for wind band.

We are a community band and perform around 10 concerts per year, many in aid of local charities, including some collaborations with other music and performing arts organisations.

Applications are invited by 31st January 2012

For more information about the band please see www.harmonie.org.uk and to request more details and an application pack, please contact enquiries@harmonie.org.uk

Can you “Strike Up The Band”?
Crawley Millenium Concert Band requires a new Musical Director. Is that person you?

The band is looking for someone who has had some experience of directing a music ensemble, but who also has the enthusiasm and vision to take the band into the future.

The band was set up as part of Crawley town’s Millennium celebrations and held its inaugural concert at the Hawth Theatre, Crawley on 15th January 2000. “Strike up the Band” was the title of one of the first concerts of Crawley Millennium Concert Band. Since then, the band has become a well-respected concert band, performing all over the South East in concert halls, bandstands and in the middle of fields! It has a membership of about 30 musicians, drawn from all sections of the local community. The band plays a wide range of music from its extensive music library, including show music, film music, marches, novelty pieces, selections, suites, overtures, rock and pop, jazz, and classics.

If you are interested in finding out how to be considered for this appointment, please contact cmcband@hotmail.com by 16th December 2011. In addition, if you want to find out more information about the band, including becoming a member, please visit the band’s website – www.cmcband.co.uk