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Update: Ticket prices are reduced now, due to extra funding!

The BTS event in Oundle on Sunday 5th October at Oundle will be preceded by a jazz gig featuring Jeremy Price the night before. Organiser Ben Bouzan is encouraging trombonists and families to make the trip more worthwhile and sociable by coming to the Saturday night gig and and staying over for the trombone day on the Sunday.

Jeremy Price is Head of Jazz at the Birmingham Conservatoire and is the BTS Jazz Rep. As a jazz trombonist he has worked with Stan Sulzmann, Mike Gibbs, Randy Brecker and David Murray. He is author of Jazz education material published by International Music Press and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He is a member of the London Jazz Orchestra and has played for London Sinfonietta as well as for numerous commercial sessions.

Jeremy Price will perform with his rhythm section on the evening of Saturday 4th October in Oundle School’s Great Hall (Northamptonshire). Tickets are free for BTS members and Oundle School Jazz Society Members, £5 for everybody else.

The jazz gig starts at 7.45pm, with doors opening at 7:30pm. Please feel free to bring any refreshments with you, this includes wine and beer! Please make sure that you clear away any rubbish at the end of the evening. Afterwards Ben invites all trombonists to the local pub.

There is a B&B and a hotel in the town: The Ship Inn 01832 273918 (cheapest but only have twins left and not many) and Talbot Hotel 01832 273621. For further accommodation advice, you can contact Ben at: eastanglia@britishtrombonesociety.org

Details of the trombone day on Sunday 5th October are available here and includes driving directions.

To find out more about upcoming events and activities of the BTS, give feedback and find out about get involved, members are welcomed to the Annual General Meeting.

As previously advertised, the British Trombone Society’s AGM takes place at 12.00 this Sunday (5th Oct 2008) at Oundle School, during the trombone day. BTS President Bob Hughes will chair the meeting. Topics covered include: events, the magazine, this website. The full agenda can be downloaded here: BTS AGM 2008 - Agenda

Please send requests for other discussions and other queries to BTS Secretary Geoff Wolmark by email: secretary@britishtrombonesociety.org

Cambridge-based 10-piece brass ensemble Prime Brass are celebrating their city’s twinning with Szeged. Coinciding with “Szeged Week,” they are presenting a Hungarian-themed concert in West Road Concert Hall on Sunday 16th November.

Sunday 16th November 2008, 7.30pm
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, UK

Hungarian Rhapsody
Music by: Rózsa, Liszt, Dohnányi, Kodály, Brahms, Mozart, Purcell, Farnaby, Monti & Jim Parker

Prime Brass
Tickets: Corn Exchange Box Office 01223 357851

Dave Whitson has organised a drinks “do” for Roger Brenner at the Salisbury pub in St. Martin’s Lane, London this Sunday (tomorrow). Sandwiches are being provided by the pub free of charge.

Believe it or not - it is a year since Crusher passed away! Please let trombones & tubists know if you can - all welcome.

Sunday 28th September 2008, from 6pm
The Salisbury, St. Martin’s Lane, London

Trombonists are invited to join Trombonanza for a night of trombone choir playing in Watford. The event is designed to provide an opportunity, particularly for young trombonists, to play this exciting repertoire alongside the professionals and first rate non-professionals that make up Trombonanza.

Trombonanza Open Rehearsal
21 October 2008, 7.30pm-9.30pm
All players welcome.
Entrance free of charge.
Venue:

Clarendon Muse (Music Centre) at Watford Grammar School for Boys
Rickmansworth Road
Watford
Hertfordshire
WD18 7JF

There will be two trombone choirs that will run through a variety of repertoire, including several items from the Trombonanza library. The senior group will be directed by Mark Horton, together with other members of Trombonanza, and is aimed at anybody who is currently Grade 6+ standard. Students and adults are all welcome.

The junior trombone choir caters for players whose standard falls between Grades 2 and 5. This event is aimed at younger trombonists, as Trombonanza would like to encourage as many young people to get involved as there is space for, so the more, the merrier! This group will be run by Ben Bouzan (Vice Chairman of the British Trombone Society) and some more members of Trombonanza.

Teachers, peripatetic teachers, professionals and associates should please circulate information about this event to any students they may currently have or have previously had, as the first massed blow should be as well attended as possible, with a view to running more evenings like this in the near future, as well as performing opportunities.

It’s completely free of charge to attend, although if interested in attending, you are asked to register to attend. (Please be advised that user registration is not required to register attendance for this event.)

If you have any queries, please contact Mark Horton (mhorton@trombonanza.com) or Ben Bouzan (bbouzan@trombonanza.com).

Trombonists in reach of the south-west are in for a treat later this month. As announced in the BTS magazine, the BTS and Wells Cathedral School are hosting a Sunday packed full of events. Here are the full details.

Sunday 28 September 2008
BTS Trombone Day
Wells Cathedral School, Somerset

Artists to include: Bones Apart, Stephen Sykes, Michael Buchanan and Kevin Morgan (Principal Trombone, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra).

Update 23/9/08: Unfortunately the London Serpent Trio are unable to be present, due ill health.

Programme:
9.45 Registration
10.15 Massed blow with Kevin Morgan
11.00 Coffee and Trade Stands
11.30 Young Stars of the Future: Stephen Sykes and Michael Buchanan
13.00 Lunch (Restaurants and Pubs nearby)
14.00 Bones Apart Trombone Quartet Recital and Workshop
15.30 Refreshments and Trade Stands
16.00 Massed blow and possible recording
17.00 Approx. finish

Cost: Free to BTS Members. £10 to non members.
(Membership forms available on the day)

Programme may change subject to artists’ availability. Any updates will be posted on this website.

Location:
Wells Cathedral School
Wells
Somerset
BA5 2ST
Driving directions available on the school’s website.

German Brass, the ten-piece ensemble of distinguished brass musicians from major German orchestras, will visit the UK next month for a whirlwind tour of concerts and masterclasses. Visiting Glasgow, Manchester and London, their performances will include their own arrangements of music by Bach, Beethoven, Johann Strauss and Liszt.

Wednesday 22 October 2008
Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama, Glasgow
8pm, concert, Academy Concert Hall

Friday 24 October 2008
Royal Northern College Of Music, Manchester
8pm, concert, Haden Freeman Concert Hall
Tickets: £12 (conc. available) from RNCM box office 0161 907 5555

Saturday 25 October 2008
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
2-5pm Open Rehearsal
7.30pm Concert

Sunday 26 October
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

10am-12pm Masterclasses with:
Wolfgang Gaag horn
Matthias Höfs trumpet
Enrique Crespo trombone
Stefan Ambrosius tuba

1-2pm Guildhall Brass Ensemble directed by Eric Crees
Music for Brass, including Gabrieli and soloist Philip Cobb

2.15-4.15pm Classes in horn, trumpet, trombone and tuba with Guildhall professors

Tickets for Guildhall events: £10 (£5 concessions, Guildhall staff and students) for both days (no single day tickets) from the Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891.

The trombone ensemble at the Royal Academy of Music, will be performing again in London in a couple of weeks time, featuring original trombone quartet music old and new. Of particular interest will be Stravinsky’s In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, described as “Dirge-canons and song for tenor, string quartet, and four trombones”.

Tuesday 7th October, 5pm
Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London
Free concert. No tickets required.

Flor Peeters Suite for Four Trombones
Stravinsky In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (Tenor: Eliot Alderman)
Ray Premru Tissington Variations
Paul Patterson Memories of Quiberville
Tim Jackson Three Shanties

Academy Trombone Choir
Bob Hughes director

Photo: Mats Bäcker

Christian Lindberg is back in London next month to perform with the London Philharmonic. He will play the Leopold Mozart trombone concerto as well as Jan Sandström’s Cantos del la Mancha.

Lindberg has struck up a strong relationship with the orchestra, having premiéred some years ago the Michael Haydn trombone concerto and in 2005 they did the world premiére of Mark Anthony Turnage’s trombone concerto and recorded it.

10 October 2008, 7.30pm
Royal Festival Hall, London

Ravel La Valse
Leopold Mozart Trombone Concerto
Jan Sandström Cantos de la Mancha (London première)
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Christian Lindberg trombone

Ticket information at the LPO website

Corner Pocket Jazz and Blues Club are presenting an evening of “The Spirit of Jay and Kai” next month, featuring trombonists Lee Hallam and Richard Baker.

Tuesday 14th October 2008
“The Spirit of Jay and Kai”
Lee Hallam and Richard Baker
Roger Heeley Trio
Coventry Schools F. P. Assoc. Club aka Bablake Old Boys
Medieval Spon Street, Coventry, CV1 3AY
Doors open 7-30 Admission £5-00