Rochdale Music Service
Fieldhouse School
Greenbank Road
Rochdale
OL12 0HZ
Tel. 01706 750288

Please help the organisers by pre-registering your attendance by e-mailing James Oliver Howard at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Remember to bring your trombone and join the BTS Trombone Choir.

Admission to Open Day: free for BTS members. £10 for non-members.
(It makes economic sense to visit the BTS website and join before attending the Open Day!)

09:30 Welcome, registration of attendees, visit trade stands. Please make it known if you wish to be considered for an opportunity to perform in the pre-evening concert as part of a solo/duet/trio/quartet etc., or if you wish to take part in the solo master classes. A piano accompanist will be provided during the day and for the evening performances.

10:00 Warm up and trombone choir rehearsal with Brett Baker. (Main Hall)

10:30 Master class with Gary MacPhee. (Main Hall)

11:00 Bass trombone master class with Adrian Morris. (TBA)

11:00 Trombone ensemble rehearses 76 Trombones with Ian Nelson for evening concert. (Main Hall)

11:45 Trombone choir rehearsal with Carol Jarvis for evening concert. (Main Hall)

12:30 Opportunity for members to rehearse quartets/solos etc. (Main Hall and small rooms)

13:00 Lunch can be taken either at the Music Service (bring your own) or sourced nearby.

14:00 Guest artist recital: Kerry Baldwin, Stephen Lomas, Simon Minshall, Black Dyke Band Trombone Section and the Leyland Band Trombones, Quartets and Young Soloists.

15:00 Opportunity for quartet players to rehearse with Leyland and Black Dyke trombone sections. (Room 8)

15:00 Final rehearsal of the trombone choir with Carol Jarvis and Ian Nelson. (Main Hall)

16:00 Rehearsal of solos/duets/trios/quartets etc. with Brett Baker, Gary McPhee, Leyland Band Quartet and Black Dyke Quartet. (Room 5)

16:00 Rehearsal of BTS Trombones with Alec Wares and the Rochdale Youth Big Band. (Room 8)

17:00 Pre-concert performance of solos/duets/quartets: As selected from the Open Day practices.

17:30 Refreshments can be taken either at the Music Service or nearby hostelries.

19:00 Evening concert (£6 Entrance, all tickets except performers).

Fenella Howarth-Smith, piano accompanist.

Rochdale Youth Big Band: Birdland and Shuffle for Uncle Guido with the BTS Trombones.

Rochdale Music Service Trombone Quartet (Dem Bones): La Mourisque, Lullaby from Suite for Trombones (Goff Richards), Showboat 4 (Leonard Smith).

Carol Jarvis and the BTS 'Allstars' Quartet perform Lush Life.

Leyland Band Trombone Quartet.

Black Dyke Band Trombone Quartet.

Kerry Baldwin, playing the Launy Grøndahl Concerto for Trombone.

Simon Minshall (bass trombone - ex. Foden Brass Band).

Stephen Lomas, winner of the BTS Northwest Regional Solo Competition.

Gary MacPhee, principal trombone of Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Brett Baker, principal trombone of the Black Dyke Band.

The BTS Trombone Choir.

Rochdale Borough Youth Brass Band: Goldcrest, Autumn Leaves with soloist Carol Jarvis, Carrickfergus with Gary MacPhee, 76 Trombones with the BTS Trombones.

(Programme subject to change without notice.)