The Senior Band are looking forward to 6th April when they will be competing at ConsTest: Birmingham Open Brass Band Competition
Held in the Birmingham Conservatoire, starting at 10am, it is an enjoyable event with varied music as each band plays its own choice of test piece. Come along and support the band. Details on the ConsTest website via the link above.
From the ConsTest website:
ConsTest 2024 is an open own choice brass band competition taking place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, on Saturday 6th April 2024. Boasting a modern take on brass banding, bands will perform in the brilliant Bradshaw Hall, competing for numerous prizes, including Denis Wick, Geneva, Mercer & Barker and Alliance products, and the chance to work with virtuosos. The 2024 contest follows on from the success of the inaugural event and will feature Ian Porthouse and Ryan Watkins as adjudicators. ConsTest looks towards the future, continuing to work with an appropriate registration system facing the player crisis head on and a desire to provide a day of endless musical indulgence for all involved – just one example of the modernistic takes on banding that ConsTest has.
ConsTest 2024 will have a gala concert pre-results, performed by the World famous Flowers Band, followed by TWO post-results concerts in the Eastside Jazz Club. This year, the bar will remain open for much longer, allowing friends of old and new to enjoy all we have to offer.
Bands playing:
- Amington Band (Chris Barker) – ‘Corineus’ (Christopher Bond)
- City of Chester Bluecoat Band (Ewan Easton) – ’Triptych’ (Philip Sparke)
- Oddfellows Brass (John Davis) – ‘Tallis Variations’ (Philip Sparke)
- Seindorf Beaumaris (Bari Gwilliam) – ‘The Saga of Haakon the Good’ (Philip Sparke)
- Sovereign Brass (Alan Gifford) – ‘The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ (Derek Bourgeois)
- Croft Silver Band (Henry Dunger) – ‘Music for Jock Tamson’ (Alan Fernie)
- Skelmersdale Prize Band (Benjamin Coulson) – ‘Tournament for Brass’ (Eric Ball)
- Newstead Brass (Martin Heartfield) – ‘Of Distant Memories’ (Edward Gregson)
- Harborough Band (Ben Smith) – ‘Mountain Views’ (Bertrand Moren)
- Clock Face Miners Heritage Brass Band (Will Haw) – ‘Fire in the Blood’ (Paul Lovatt-Cooper
- Jackfield Band (Ryan Richards) – ‘Pageantry’ (Herbert Howells)
- Cleobury Mortimer Concert Brass (David Nicholson) – ‘Corineus’ (Christopher Bond)
- Nailsworth Silver Band (Anri Adachi) – ‘Olympus’ (Philip Harper)
