Friday 25 – Sunday 27 January 2013 RNCM Festival of Brass

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2013 is a landmark year for brass band music in Britain. It will be 100 years since the English composer Percy Fletcher composed the first work of original brass band music for a brass band competition in this country. This paved the way for the evolution of the major repertory that forms the musical core of the RNCM Festival of Brass each year. 2013 also marks the centenary of composers Benjamin Britten and George Lloyd. Their contrasting musical journeys are celebrated in this unique festival devoted to brass bands and ensembles, as is the 400th anniversary of the death of the great Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli.

This 2013 RNCM Festival of Brass celebrates a century since Labour and Love with examples of some of the finest and most adventurous music composed for the medium by leading composers from John Ireland and Herbert Howells in the 1930s, to Wilfred Heaton and Robert Simpson in the 70s, Robin Holloway, John McCabe and Michael Tippett in the 80s and Peter Graham, Philip Wilby and many others of more recent vintage. There are no fewer than 11 world premières, including a specially commissioned collective tribute to Benjamin Britten by four of the finest younger ‘voices’ writing for brass and no fewer than six new concertos.

Joining six of the best brass bands in the land are the four musicians of Exit Brass!, the exciting Belgian brass quartet that includes dynamic cornettist Harmen Vanhoorne, the popular young star Glenn Van Looy and talented composer Stan Nieuwenhuis. For the second time, the Festival’s Finale embraces BBC Radio 2’s Young Brass Awards.

There will also be a comprehensive trade exhibition featuring the UK’s leading retailers and manufacturers displaying the latest in brass instruments and accessories.

Paul Hindmarsh artistic director

Supported by

www.prsformusicfoundation.com

Friday 25 January Saturday 26 January 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room 10am RNCM Theatre Festival Prelude with Exit Brass! Masterclass with Exit Brass!

Music for brass ensemble, played by the Tickets £7 Festival’s artists in residence. Free admission, no ticket required 11.30am RNCM Concert Hall The Fairey Band

7.45pm RNCM Concert Hall Michael Tippett Festal Brass with Blues Black Dyke Band Robin Holloway From Hills and Valleys (War Memorials No 2) Peter Graham Fanfare 1913 (world première) Rodney Newton The Golden Apples of the Sun Percy Fletcher Labour and Love (world première) Philip Wilby One Star-Sailing West (world première) Benjamin Britten (arr Ray Farr) Russian Funeral Philip Wilby Revelation John Ireland Elegy and Minuet from Benjamin Britten Fanfare for David Webster A Downland Suite James MacMillan Canite Wilfred Heaton Toccata (Oh the Blessed Lord) Peter Graham Radio City, Concerto for trombone and band (world première) Frank Renton conductor Edward Gregson New work Yasuaki Fukuhara percussion

Nicholas Childs conductor Tickets £16 £14 Zoe Hancock flugel horn Brett Baker trombone 2pm RNCM Theatre Tickets £16 £14 RNCM Brass Band Discovering Birtwistle’s Grimethorpe Aria

Elgar Howarth Tombeau Harrison Birtwistle Grimethorpe Aria

Elgar Howarth and Paul Hindmarsh delve into the detail of Grimethorpe Aria, which Elgar Howarth commissioned for Grimethorpe Colliery Band. The workshop and complete performance is preceded by a performance of his Tombeau for and band.

Elgar Howarth conductor Craig Kilgour trumpet

Tickets £10 3.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 6.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tredegar Town Band The Legacy of Labour and Love

Robert Simpson Energy Christopher Thomas leads a discussion on the Nigel Clarke Mysteries of the Horizon evolution of the repertoire of music composed (UK première) for brass band since Percy Fletcher’s tone poem Trad (arr Elgar Howarth) Hunt the Hare Labour and Love was first heard at the 1913 Lucy Pankhurst, Simon Dobson, National Brass Band Championships of Paul McGhee, Gavin Higgins Diversions after Great Britain. Benjamin Britten (world première) Free admission, no ticket required George Lloyd Royal Parks

Ian Porthouse conductor Harmen Vanhoorne 7.30pm RNCM Concert Hall

Tickets £16 £14 Foden’s Band Benjamin Britten (arr Paul Hindmarsh) Occasional Overture (world première of new version) 5.30pm RNCM Theatre Andy Scott Trombone Concerto (world première) Junior RNCM Brass Band Wilfred Heaton Contest Music and Foden’s Youth Band Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Flowers of the Forest These two young bands perform a selection of Peter Meechan Fire in the Sky music that includes works by Kenneth Downie, John McCabe Cloudcatcher Fells Martin Cordner and The Beatles Russell Gray, Mike Fowles conductors Les Neish, Jon Malaxetxebarria, John Barber trombone Mike Fowles conductors Tickets £16 £14 Free admission, no ticket required Sunday 27 January 10am RNCM Theatre 1.30pm RNCM Concert Hall Masterclass with Alexis Demailly RNCM Brass Ensemble

Tickets £7 Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Duodecimi Toni à 10 Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata Pian e Forte à 8 Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Noni Toni à 12 11.15am RNCM Concert Hall Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon VII Leyland Band Giovanni Gabrieli La Spiritata Andrea Gabrieli Ricercar del Duodecima Tuono George Lloyd Diversions on a Bass Theme John De Simone Trope Stan Nieuwenhuis Euphonium Concerto Adam Gorb Ommaggio A Giovanni, (world première) (world première) Edmund Rubbra Variations on The Shining Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Primi Toni à 8 River Op 101 Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon XV Peter Meechan Across the Water (Epitaph No 2) Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Septimi Octavi Toni Oliver Waespi Audivi Media Nocte à 12 Michael Bach conductor John Miller conductor Glenn Van Looy euphonium Tickets £10 Tickets £16 £14

3pm RNCM Studio Theatre The George Lloyd Story William Lloyd, the composer’s nephew, tells the unique story of George Lloyd’s life and music. With the help of the family archives, William celebrates his uncle’s early promise, charts his devastating wartime experiences in the North Atlantic convoys and celebrates his return to full-time composition after years in the Dorset countryside as a market gardener.

Tickets £7 3pm Carole Nash Recital Room 7pm RNCM Theatre Exit Brass! in recital Festival Finale Featuring the recipients of the Stan Nieuwenhuis Fanfare BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Awards 2013 Simon Dobson Riot and Exit Brass! Peter Meechan Autumn Falling Stan Nieuwenhuis Burning Lights The Festival Finale celebrates the rising Exit Brass! Mafia generation of brass soloists and bands with BBC Radio 2’s Young Brass Awards, chosen by Tickets £7 a panel of experts in the brass band field. The

Award categories are for two soloists (under 4.30pm RNCM Concert Hall 18, and 18-21) and a youth band, all three of which will take part in this exciting event, Cory Band together with the RNCM Brass Band directed George Lloyd King’s Messenger by Russell Gray, and Exit Brass!. A panel will David Harrington Horn Concerto (world select an overall Young Brass Award recipient première) during the concert. John Pickard Eden RNCM Brass Band Robin Holloway Men Marching (War George Lloyd March: HMS Trinidad Memorial No 1) Gustav Holst (arr Paul Hindmarsh) Capriccio Herbert Howells Pageantry Benjamin Britten (arr Darrol Barry) The Philip Harper conductor Spider and the Fly Owen Farr Wilfred Heaton The Golden Pen Elgar Howarth Berne Patrol Tickets £16 £14 Elgar Howarth American Dream Elgar Howarth Hogarth’s Howdown

Russell Gray conductor

Exit Brass! Stan Nieuwenhuis Infernal Fantasy (world première)

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