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National Youth Band set for Easter offerings

If you want to hear the National Youth Band of Great Britain at the end of their Easter Course, then you can do so, this weekend.

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  The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain will give the first of its Easter concerts this weekend.

The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB) is to hold the first of its three Easter concerts this weekend.

Uppingham and Cambridge

This evening (Friday 14th April) at Uppingham School in Rutland, the band of 80 players will be led by its Artistic Director, Bramwell Tovey.

Tomorrow evening, the band will perform at the Cambridge University Concert Hall, West Road, Cambridge with both concerts starting at 7.30pm.

Cobb and Moore to feature

The concerts will feature two guests soloists not just from the world of brass bands, but currently making names for themselves with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philip Cobb and Peter Moore.

The band will also be performing at The Barbican in London on Saturday 22nd April with a pre-concert talk hosted by Dr Robert Childs and Richard Evans commencing at 6.15pm

Tickets on the door

Tickets for both concerts this weekend will be available on the door or by calling Philip Biggs on 07710505689

The NYBBGB Easter concerts will feature as guest soloists the LSO's Philip Cobb and Peter Moore 4BR

The programme of music will be selected from:

Mosaic (Elgar Howarth)
Symphony in Two Movements (Edward Gregson)
Elegy from 'A Downland Suite' (John Ireland)
Concerto for Cornet (Denis Wright)
Soloist: Philip Cobb
Dark Arteries Suite (Gavin Higgins)
Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret (Bramwell Tovey)
Soloist: Peter Moore
Fandango (Joseph Turrin)
Soloists: Philip Cobb and Peter Moore
Ballet for Band (Joseph Horovitz)
Wired (Lucy Pankhurst)


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