Young brass quintet blow their horns at North London concert

Time was, not long ago, when peripatetic music teachers would arrive at schools and taught talented children how to play instruments for free.

But these days that privilege is only available for those whose parents can finance it.

Connaught Brass plays the proms in ST Jude’s in the suburb of Hampstead Garden. (Image: Connaught Brass) And if they manage to enter the University of Music and emerge, their challenges to obtain a musical work, the humble independent work, not the dizzy heights of a regular orchestral work, they barely begin.

Brexit will ensure that if they want to travel the foreigner, there are now new hoops through which they must jump. And local musical societies throughout the country, which have traditionally provided a constant workflow for musicians ready to persecute it, are one of a closed store as their funds disappear.

The Council of Arts and the Government have long abandoned any thought of addressing this situation.

Transatlantic Rumors Ensemble Play Fleetwood Mac on June 27. (Image: Dan Brady) Then, a great hand for Connaught Brass, a young quintet because it stars in the proms at the San Judas Arts Festival, whose biographies show how talent, determination and ingenuity can overcome all difficulties.

All started young. Zoe Tweed begged to play euphonium at six, before changing to the trombone, then settled in the French horn at nine; The Tuba player, near Meredith Barrett, picked up a speaker at seven and immediately joined a youth band in which he became a star.

The five won awards, all touched in the National Youth Orchestra, and everyone studied at the Royal Academy of Music.

And as his spokesman, the trombonist Chris Brewster expresses it: “As we were really good companions, we decided to form a brass quintet.”

And with this costume, they quickly left their mark in Europe, being known for the freshness of their game, the Catholicity of their repertoire and the new works they commissioned.

All have independent careers, in which the quintet concerts and their visits to schools place. They are also frequent guests on the radio.

Brass quintetos are a much more modern invention than string quartets or piano trios, but Brewster points out that there are now many successful examples of the genre, with the philip brass set Jones leading the road.

London Mozart players act in classical pride in the Church of San Judas in the suburb of Hampstead Garden. (Image: Kaupo Kikkas) Brass sets have a very participular sound, he says, or triumphant, but sometimes also surprisingly delicate. It is ideal for fanfare, but it can also evoke very different sound worlds.

One of the works that the connagets will be acted at the festival will be of the first composer to write for the brass quintet, Ewald Hintz, who lived in the seventeenth century, and, since no other composer followed him, he was a condemnable stroit to a strong strong stout ast a strougere ast a strougere ast a strouGere ast a stagere ast a stagere stro Ast a strougere ast a strougere ast a strouGere ast a strougere astute a Asture a Strugere Asture A Strougere a Strougere Astougere a Strougere Astougere A Strougere Lerned. Groove.

The rest of the Connaught proms at the St Jude concert will be pleasantly eclectic, with the piano music of Debussy and the story of Bernstein West Side remodeled for brass, and two Renaissance pieces that I hope.

The Venetian Composer Giovanni Gabrieli, Master of Music AT St Mark’s, Specialized in Writing Vocal Works Which were perfectly suited to the irregular Acoustics of Churches, and as brewster points out, His-one Lovelyate, As Shassasass Shaassaass Shaassaass Shassass Savassaass Shaasasas Savely, Through the Nooks and Grietas of the Church.

But this is only one of the many fascinating events in the week or from June 21 to 29. Are you how Santies be? Captain Nicholas Moffat and the crew of the old sailors of the old time will give you serenade.

If it is camera music, you want for the excellent Fibonacci quartet playing Haydn, Smetana and Beethoven.

On the other hand, if you want to celebrate LGBTQ composers, classical pride will bring you barber and tchaikovsky. Meanwhile, the transatlantic set offers its interesting version of the rumors of Fleetwood Mac.

And I had no idea that after 60 years the swingles were still close, but on June 28 you can catch them and their vocal music once again.

Along with all this, there are some intriguing literary events. For example, I’m very curious about how Red sky at dawn – Subtitulada ‘A Laurie Lee celebration in words and music’ and fed by some Thepians directed by Anton Leser – will be transmitted.

In summary, the World Music and Arts Festival in northern London offers a rich and varied program, for those who have time to savor it.

The proms in ST Jude’s take place at the Henrietta Barnett school and the Church of San Judas in Hampstead Garden Suburbun 21-29. Book at www.promsatstjudes.org.uk