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2025 RNCM International Brass Band Festival: Interview with Katrina Marzella-Wheeler

We catch up with the Scottish conductor to find out more about the programme to be performed by the RNCM Brass Band on the weekend in Manchester.

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  Katrina Marzella-Wheeler will lead the RNCM Brass Band

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Sunday morning at the RNCM International Brass Band Festival sees the talented students of the RNCM Brass Band take to the Concert Hall stage conducted by Katrina Marzella-Wheeler and Harry Lia with a programme of emotive reflections — from terror and grief to hope and joyful exuberance.

Works

Works featured come form the pen of Simon Dobson, Elgar Howarth, Derek Bourgeois, Edward Gregson and Kelly Marie Murphy, whilst the featured concerto soloist is the remarkable New Zealand trombonist David Bremner.

We caught up with Katrina to find out more about the music being played...

Tickets

Tickets: https://www.rncm.ac.uk/basket/?instance_id=16801

RNCM Brass Band
Conductors:
Katrina Marzella-Wheeler, Harry Lai
Soloist: David Bremner

Programme:

HorrorShow (Simon Dobson)
Mosaic (Elgar Howarth)
Concerto for Trombone (Derek Bourgeois)
Four Etudes (Edward Gregson)
Drumming the Plain, the Horseman is Coming (Kelly Marie Murphy)

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