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     Testimonials

"Sonority personified...Wonderful! What a fabulous sound!" Sean Rafferty - BBC Radio 3, 'In Tune'

"You attracted the largest audience on record, totally eclipsing the previous one and your performance sent everyone away more than satisfied!" Toby Smith - Cheltenham International Festival of Music

"this young 10-piece ensemble is sure to delight even the most hardened brass enthusiast" Kevin Price, Head of Brass, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

"the ensemble not only displays its versatility, but also the abundance of talent that it posseses." Kenneth Crookston, British Bandsman Magazine

"Their playing is first class and stands up well even in repertoire associated with Philip Jones or London Brass." Peter Bale, 4barsrest.com

     Repertoire

Early

• Airs And Dances (Dowland)
• Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba (Handel)
• Bandinerie (Bach)
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Bach)
• Canzon Primi Toni a Ten (Gabrielli)
• Concerto Grosso (Handel)
• Earle Of Oxford's March, The (Byrd)
• Fairy Queen (Purcell)
• Gigue (Bach)
• Intrada (Frank)
• Prelude And Fugue In D Minor (Bach)
• Sonata Pian' E Forte (Gabrielli)
• Suite From Abdelazer (Purcell)
• Susato Suite (Susato)
• Three Chorales (Bach)
• Trumpet Tune (Stanley)
• Vespers (Montiverdi)
• Winter From The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

Classical

• Adagio For Strings (Baber)
• Alborado Del Gracioso (Ravel)
• Amazing Grace (Traditional)
• Carmen Suite (Bizet)
• Carnival of Venice (Arban)
• El Capitain (Sousa)
• Enigma Variations (Elgar)
• Entry Of The Gladiators (Fucik)
• Dances From Terpsichore (Praetorius)
• Dolly Suite (Faure)
• Festive Overture (Shostakovich)
• Golliwogs Cakewalk (Debussy)
• Historia de Una Amapola (Jurado)
• Imperial March (Elgar)
• Masques (Debussy)
• Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
• Os Justi (Bruckner)
• Shepherd's Hey (Grainger)
• Slavonic Dance No. 8 (Dvorak)
• Trepak (Tchaikovsky)
• Variations On A Theme Of Corelli (Kreisler)

Contemporary

• A Raptured Gathering (Stroud)
• Aubrey's Maske (Wills)
• Bacchanale (Turnage)
• English Dance No. 5 (Arnold)
• Evening Shades (Whitlock)
• Five Movements From Divertimento (Premru)
• Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Weill)
• Londoner In New York - Part 2 (Parker)
• Sinfonietta (Blake)
  Sinfonietta For Brass (McClarty)
• Three Bagatelles (Gout)
• Three Scenes For Brass (Dobson)
• Venetian Brass, Op. 40 (Wade)
• William And Mary (Bourgeois)

Light/Jazz

• Amazonia (Graham)
• American Patrol (Meacham)
• April In Paris (Harburg/Duke)
• Baby Elephant Walk (Mancini)
• Bess You Is My Woman (Gershwin)
• Birdland (Zawinul)
• Blue Rondo A La Turk (Brubeck)
• But Not For Me (Gershwin)
• Chicken, The (Pee-Wee Ellis)
• Careless Whisper
• Days Of Wine and Roses, The (Mancini)
• Do You Know The Way To San Jose? (Bacharach)
• Foggy Foggy May, A (Traditional)
• From Russia With Love (Bart)
  Georgia On My Mind (Carmichael)
• Gershwin Preludes (Gershwin)
• Gershwin Selection (Gershwin)
• Jealousy (Gade)
• Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (Foster)
• Kraken (Hazell)
• 'l Darlin' (Hefti)
• Londonderry Air (Traditional)
• Mexican Hat Dance (Particella)
• Muppet Show (Henson/Pottle)
• Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square, A (Maschwitz/Sherwin)
• Peter Gunn Theme (Mancini)
• Samba De Janeiro (Bellini)
• Send In The Clowns (Sondheim)
• Shiny Stokings (Foster)
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern)
• Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
• Spanish Flee (Wechter)
• Stardust (Carmichael)
• The Way you Look Tonight (Kern)
• They All Laughed (Gershwin)
• Three Brass Cats (Hazell)
• Tico-Tico (Abreu)
  Weep No More (Brubeck)

Fanfares

• Chelsea Fanfare (Bartle)
• Fanfare (Martin)
• Fanfare (Trent-Davies)
• Fanfare And National Anthem (Arr. Bartle)
• Fanfare For St. Edmundsbury (Britten)
• Fanfare For The Common Man (Copland)
• I Witness Fanfare Luke 1:68 (Campbell

Choral

• Early One Morning (Traditional arr. Harvey)
• Requiem (Faure)
• Gloria (Rutter)
• I Was Glad (Parry)
• In Ecclesiis (Gabrieli)
• Magnificat (Gabrieli)
• Magnificat (Patterson)
• Wie Lieblich (Schultz)

     Outreach

High on Brass10's list of priorities is the promotion of brass instruments through educational workshops and 'taster' sessions allowing school children to experience how brass instruments sound and demonstrate how they work.

As well as running their own projects, Brass10 also works alongside the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, taking music into schools in West London and introducing children to orchestral music as well as the brass instruments found in the orchestra.

As the Leverhulme Group Junior Fellowship Ensemble at the Royal College of Music, Brass10 has spent much time working with the RCM students in workshops and repertoire sessions, encouraging and assisting the students in setting-up and running their own brass ensembles. Brass10 also played a part in the Trinity College of Music Brass Massive 2005 in Blackheath Halls and are hoping to strengthen this link with TCM's education department.

Brass10 has designed workshops for all levels, from nursery rhymes in kindergartens to performance and composition coaching with GCSE and 'A' level students. The three main levels of workshops are:

1: For the younger students (Key Stages 1-3), Brass10 offers 'Brass10 Boom', a lively introduction to brass instruments and different genres of music. They can also help with improvisation and group music-making, as well as taking live music to children who may otherwise, not experience it.

2: Older children (up to age 14) can be more reluctant to participate, so for them, there is 'Brass10 Educational Concerts'. Brass10 performs an entertaining and interactive concert of music, introducing the instruments and music in more depth and even giving the students a chance to conduct the group and join in with the 'Brass10 Big Blast' playing brass and percussion instruments.

3: GCSE and 'A' level students can require less of a lecture and more hands-on help from the players. Brass10 can be involved in performances of students' compositions, as well as offering helpful advice on how to write for brass instruments. Brass10 musicians can also run masterclasses for students who require an extra opinion on performance-based preparation.

Members of Brass10 have substantial experience in educational work, having participated in projects such as 'LPO Playerlink Scheme', 'RPO Thames Festival Projects', The Philharmonia Orchestra's 'Stepping Stones', 'Mbira' & Carnival of the Animals' projects, 'Britten Sinfonia' and 'London Sinfonietta Project' . Most of the players in Brass10 also teach one-to-one, either privately or in schools around London.

Brass10 appreciates that every occasion requires different material. Because of this, every workshop will be tailored to your specific needs. Brass10 is able to tie-in the workshop to academic work covered in the National Curriculum or the workshop can also be geared more towards promoting brass instruments in your school. Most musical requests can be met as Brass10 has composers and arrangers within and associated with the group.

If you are interested in booking Brass10 for your school, or for more details, please contact Amy Wetmore, Brass10's education officer

In May 2004 Brass10 were awarded the Philharmonia Orchestra / Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Outreach Award for their work promoting music in schools in the London area.