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Interview with Garry Cutt

We catch up with the Marple Maestro after he led a band of legendary champions in concert in Slaithwaite on the weekend.

Garry Cutt
  We caught up with the Marple Maestro for a quick chat.

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After many months of waiting, the newly formed Champions of Brass held its inaugural concert on the weekend.

We caught up with the man with the baton who led a dream team of brass band legends in performance — Prof Garry Cutt.

Garry talks about the joy of working with a band made up of players who have a very specific and increasingly rare talent for a special kind of music making — as well as how it compared to his recent journey to direct Eikanger Bjorsvik in concert on classic repertoire.

A review of the Champions of Brass concert can be found at:
https://www.4barsrest.com/reviews/concerts/con708.asp

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