Thursday 25th January 2024

Connaught Brass
Harry Plant, Joe Skypala - Trumpets, Annemarie Federle - Horn, Chris Brewster - Trombone, Stuart Beard - Tuba

Connaught Brass are making a name for themselves as a fresh talent in the chamber music world. They made their debuts at the Lucerne Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall, and won 1st Prize in the Inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition (2019). Recently, the quintet became Artists of the Tillett Trust, City Music Foundation and Kirckman Concert Society, and attended the prestigious Britten Pears Chamber Music Residency 2022. Recent seasons have seen the Connaught perform widely including tours of Switzerland, recitals at Societá Filarmonica Trento, St George’s Bristol, and The Great Birmingham Brass Fest. Their ever-growing repertoire spans 500 years, from renaissance to contemporary works.

If you would like to get a taste of the ensemble before the concert please click on the following YouTube link…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6ygT8LxaQ

PROGRAMME:

Mogens Andresen - Prelude & Reinlendere from 3 Norwegian Dances
Florence Price arr. Blair - Adoration
Bizet arr. Foster - Carmen in Thirteen-and-a-half Minutes
A collection of works curated by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble