Seventy five of Britain’s finest teenage brass and percussion players are to spend a week of intensive rehearsals at Harrogate Ladies College under the baton of one of the world’s leading orchestral conductors.
The musicians, all members of the prestigious National Youth Brass Band of Great (NYBB of GB), will be under the baton of Maestro, Bramwell Tovey, the band’s artistic director and Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
NYBB of GB members are drawn from across the UK and meet twice a year for week long residential courses. During the course, the band will be preparing for two forthcoming concerts in Manchester and Darlington.
Philip Biggs, the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain’s Administrator said: “We are delighted to be returning to Harrogate for the 2011 Easter course.
“We have been returning to the town for week long training courses for some three or four decades now (DO YOU KNOW ROUGHLY HOW LONG?), and the members have never grown tired of the venue and location.”
Guest soloist for both concerts is Philip Cobb, the principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra, and a former principal cornet of the band. Preparing the band for the concerts, will be Tovey, ably supported by a team of leading brass band and orchestral brass and percussion players.
The band was founded in 1952 by Dr Denis Wright OBE and exists to give exceptionally gifted young brass instrumentalists between the ages of 12 and 18, the opportunity to perform advanced music and receive high quality teaching.
Concert one will be at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on Friday 22 April and concert two will be held a day later after at The Dolphin Centre in Darlington.
The band will be visiting the town between April 16 and April 23.
