Gregson to be interviewed on BBC Radio 3 prior to UK premiere of ‘The World Rejoicing’

September 7, 2022

Edward Gregson is to be interviewed on the BBC’s ‘In Tune’ programme by Katie Derham on Thursday 8 September at around 6.15 pm to talk about the UK premiere of his test piece The World Rejoicing (Symphonic Variations of a Lutheran Chorale) which is to take place at the British Open Brass Band Championship on 10 September at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK.

Seventeen of the UK’s finest bands and the Paris Brass Band will each perform this test piece, which was due to be premiered at the British Open in 2020, but was postponed due to the Covid pandemic.

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Gregson on BBC Radio 3

March 11, 2022

BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week programme, which featured the music of Edward Gregson and his teacher, Alan Bush, is now available as a podcast on BBC Sounds (only available in the UK).

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Gregson to be featured as BBC Radio 3’s ‘Composer of the Week’

February 2, 2022

Edward Gregson is to be the featured composer in the BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week series, which will broadcast this month. There will be five programmes, to be broadcast daily at 12 noon, from Monday 14 February.   Gregson’s music will be featured alongside that of his composition teacher Alan Bush, with whom he studied at the Royal Academy of Music between 1964 and 1967.

Gregson will be interviewed by Donald Macleod as he embarks on a chronological journey through his life as a composer, illustrated by a variety of compositions along the way. Programmes 2 and 4 will …

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Recording with Black Dyke Band and Jonathan Scott (piano)

December 28, 2021

An early work by Edward Gregson, his ‘Concertante for piano and brass band’, written when he was only 20, has been recorded recently at a session at Leeds Conservatoire by Jonathan Scott (piano) and Black Dyke Band, conducted by Nicholas Childs.  The composer, remembering the days when he played the piece himself, was present at the recording session.…

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