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Cory Band records Gregson’s ‘Dances and Arias’
A new release on the Doyen label by the famous Cory Band from South Wales, celebrating their 140th anniversary, includes Edward Gregson’s 1984 composition Dances and Arias. This was the work that was used as the test piece at the 1984 National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain finals at London’s Royal Albert Hall when the Cory Band won the title, thus celebrating a hat-trick of wins in the competition. The band released an LP recording of the work in the next year, but this is the first time since then that they have recorded it. It has achieved critical …
Read MoreTuba Concerto’s Latin American premiere
The Latin American premiere of Edward Gregson’s Tuba Concerto will take place in Peru later this week. Although the concerto has been performed in many countries around the world this will be its premiere in South America.
The performance will take place in Lima on 3rd October at the Gran Teatro Nacional with soloist José Vera and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil Bicentenario, conduced by Pablo Sabat Mindreau.
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Concertos Concert
As part of its artistic programming at the Gran Teatro Nacional, the Bicentennial National Youth Symphony Orchestra presents the second edition of “Concertos Concert” (Concierto de conciertos), …
Read MoreGregson recording in Brussels
Edward Gregson visited Brussels at the end of last month to attend recording sessions for his new Tenor Horn Concerto, which Belgian tenor horn virtuoso Tim De Maeseneer commissioned from him. Subtitled ‘Three Gods’ it is an 18 minute work in three movements, and is of symphonic proportions.
The composer commented: ‘What a great recording session. Tim was on top form as were Willebroek Brass Band, the leading band in Belgium, under their conductor Frans Violet. The Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles has a wonderful concert hall acoustically and it all sounded top notch. My heartfelt thanks to them all and
Gregson’s new piece – a tribute to composer Anthony Gilbert
Edward Gregson’s new piece for solo oboe, A Song for Tony, is to be premiered by Richard Simpson (former principal oboe with the BBC Symphony Orchestra) at a concert to celebrate the life and work of composer Anthony (Tony) Gilbert, on 13 April, 2024.
Tony was the first Head of Composition at the RNCM in Manchester from 1973 until his retirement in 1999, and was a prolific composer who championed new music in Manchester for over 50 years – he was an active committee member of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and the New Music Panel of …
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