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VLAMO to host first Belgian National Youth Band course

Luc Vertommen and Wim Lauryssen will llead Belgian Youth on first course in April.

VLAMO
  The course runs from 11th to 13th April

VLAMO, the Flemish amateur music making organisation that oversees brass banding in Belgium has announced that it will host its first new National Youth Brass Band course in Bed Muzet in Lier in April.

The course will be led by conductors Luc Vertommen and Wim Lauryssen and is open to brass and percussion players aged up to and including 25. The very first youth course was held in 1975 but lapsed.

Current Chairperson of the Brass Band Committee of VLAMO, Arthur Vanderhoeft told 4BR: "This National Youth Brass Band course was organized several years with success but somehow disappeared at a certain point.

I am very pleased that we finally are able to restart this project. I sincerely hope a lot of young people will take advantage of it to learn to play together in this format and to meet new friends through the wonderful language of music."

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It will take place between the 11th and 13th April, with prospective participants asked to send in a short 3-minuye audition alongside an application form submission.

Those who wish to be a part have until 31st January to submit their applications.

Find out more


https://www.vlamo.be/jeugdbrassband#deelnamevoorwaarden

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