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National Youth Band announce Proms programme

Bram Tovey and the National Youth Band to perform works by Lucas, Pickard, Bryars, Benjamin and Bourgeois at Proms.

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The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB), which is due to perform as part of the BBC Proms this Summer, has announced the repertoire and concert details for its forthcoming Summer course.

Concerts and Prom

As well as their performance at the BBC Proms on the 12th August, the band is booked to appear at St Michaels Church, New Market, Beccles, Suffolk, on Thursday 9th and Snape Maltings, Suffolk on Friday 10th, conducted by Artistic Director, Bramwell Tovey.

The Summer course will be held between the 4th & 11th August at Wymondham College in Norfolk.

Excited

Philip Biggs, Administrator of the NCBBGB told 4BR: "We are really excited about the course, the concerts and the Proms. It’s fitting that in the band’s Diamond Jubilee year, they once again perform at what is considered to be the world’s premier classical music festival."

It’s fitting that in the band’s Diamond Jubilee year, they once again perform at what is considered to be the world’s premier classical music festivalPhilip Biggs

Programme

The programme for the BBC Proms will include ‘Chorale and Variations’ by Leighton Lucas, ‘Wildfire’ by John Pickard and ‘After the Underworlds’ a new BBC commission by Gavin Bryars. In addition there will be performances of ‘Altitude’ by George Benjamin and ‘Blitz’ by Derek Bourgeois.

Concert repertoire will see the band tackle classics from the pens of Gustav Holst, Denis Wright, John Ireland, Arthur Bliss, Edward Elgar and Gordon Langford as well as lighter repertoire.

To find out more click to: www.nybbgb.com

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