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Rococo Variations

13th September, 2008

  • Venue:
  • Symphony Hall,
  • Broad Street,
  • Birmingham,
  • B1 2EA,
  • United Kingdom

Martin Mortimer is delighted to announce that the test piece for the British Open Championship of September 2008 will be a new work from Edward Gregson. Entitled Rococo Variations this work, which is a joint commission by The Open and the Norwegian Brass Band Federation, with help from The Co-operative, will be Gregson's first commissioned test piece for seventeen years.

Rococo Variations (which is to be published by Studio Music) is the first Open test piece to use the variation form since Philip Wilby's Paganini Variations of 1991. It will also be set by The Norwegian Brass Band Federation as the test piece for its National Contest in 2009. The sponsors of this year's Open Championship will be Besson and the contest will be held at Birmingham's Symphony Hall on Saturday 13 September 2008.

 
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