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Interview with Patrick Ottiger of BML Talents

4BR Editor Iwan Fox speaks to Patrick Ottiger, MD of the new Swiss First Division Champion, BML Talents

Talents
  The BML Talents Band won the First Division title in Montreux in superb fashion

4BR Editor Iwan Fox caught up with a delighted conductor Patrick Ottiger of the newly crowned Swiss First Division Champion, BML Talents.

Packed full of young players — the vast majority teenagers — they are the 'junior band' of the Brass Band Burgermusik Luzern organisation and have gained a remarkable reputation for living up to their name — and not just on the contest stage.

Patrick has been the MD for a decade — with many of the players he has nurtured over the years moving directly into the senior BB Burgermusik Luzern line-up.

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