Tickets for the 171st British Open Championship will go on sale to the general public at 10.00am on Friday 16th May.
The 2025 contest on Saturday 6th September will feature 18 bands, incouding defending champion Brass Band Treize Etoiles from Switzerland perform 'Star Crossed Lovers' by Stephen Roberts — a new commission which takes its title from the prologue to Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet', written around 1591.
'A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.'
The score is based on Sergei Prokofiev's music for the ballet 'Romeo and Juliet', first composed in 1935, but revised for its Soviet premiere at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad in 1940.
To purchase:
https://bmusic.co.uk/events/the-171st-british-open-brass-band-championship
As has been the policy in recent years, tickets for the 2025 contest were first made available to members of the B:Music Loyalty Scheme.
Tickets for the 171st British Open Championship will go on sale to the general public at 10.00am on Friday 16th May4BR
Other attractions
Symphony Hall Birmingham is also hosting 'Brass in a Day' on Sunday 7th September, which will include an afternoon concert given at 3.00pm by Black Dyke Band and Cory Band as well as the young musicians from the Services for Education Youth Brass Ensembles and the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.
Tickets: https://bmusic.co.uk/events/brass-gala-2025-2
It will include a special FREE 'Have a Go Brass' — led by tutors from Services for Education at 10.00am.
Book a place: https://bmusic.co.uk/events/have-a-go-brass-2025
The National Childrens' Brass Band of Great Britain will give a free performance at 2.00pm
Book a free ticket at:
https://bmusic.co.uk/events/national-youth-brass-band-of-great-britain-childrens-band-3
Mnozil Brass:
There are now just 150 tickets available for the 30th anniversary appearance of Mnozil Brass at Symphony Hall on Saturday 28th June (7.30pm). Over 1900 tickets have already been sold.
Tickets:
https://bmusic.co.uk/events/mnozil-brass-jubilee-celebrating-30-years-of-mnozil-brass
