The Wingates Band will première a new work from the pen of their award winning composer in residence Lucy Pankhurst when they make their first ever visit to Jersey in August.

Inventive

Entitled, ‘Mr Sonneman’s Unusual Solution’, the brilliantly inventive piece was commissioned by the band’s concert secretary Tony Smith and takes its inspiration from the title of a short story he wrote in 1988 about a little Dutch girl his daughters befriended on a family holiday.

a story which takes its listeners on a voyage in a cloud machine bound for a school in the Netherlands to deliver a solution to a teacher’s dilemma4BR

Award winner

Lucy, winner of a prestigious British Composer Award last year, was moved to compose a work which gave a musical representation of a story which takes its listeners on a voyage in a cloud machine bound for a school in the Netherlands to deliver a solution to a teacher’s dilemma.