Archive for the 'Concerts' Category

First of all I must say thankyou to everyone who came to watch us play last night at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists Concert Series. It was great to see friends and family and other familiar faces in the audience as well as lots of new people.
A recital […]

Happy New Year to all and hope you all have had a great christmas holiday. The girls and I are very much looking forward to 2007 and have high hopes for the group. We have all spent most of the christmas break working hard on the three new commissions written especially for Bella Tromba for […]

Bella Tromba have been invited to appear on BBC Radio 3 (90-93FM) on the “In Tune” programme on Thursday 21st December. The programme is on between 17.00 and 19.30. We will be performing live and will be interviewed. Bella Tromba are appearing as part of the run up to the Park Lane Young Artists Concert […]

It has been a busy few weeks for Bella Tromba. Last Saturday saw the first of our evening recitals for Live and Local, an organisation that arranges concerts in rural areas. This recital was in the Village Institute in Cutthorpe, Derbyshire. We decided to use this recital to test out some new […]

Early last week Bella Tromba met with Murray Grieg in the Hilton. For those that aren’t aware, Murray is Principal Trumpet with Opera North’s orchestra and he will be writing a feature for Decembers edition of the Brass Herald on us, of which I had a dabble at writing a review for in Septembers edition. […]

We are pleased to announce that Bella Tromba have been selected to become Park Lane Group Young Artists. The Park Lane Group is a prestigious competition in which a small number of soloists and ensembles are given prominent platfroms for performances and the opportunity to be reviewed by national press.
Bella Tromba will be performing […]

I am pleased to pass on some more details about our recital on Saturday 23rd September to tempt you to come along. This will be the quartets first full evening recital as in the past we have either collaborated or done shorter recitals. It is great to be able to spend time choosing music from […]

We are currently in the process of organising some further-a-field tours, the Welsh Arts Festival especially helping boost the publicity of our group. During this festival we got to meet such people as Catrin Finch and the whole of Parc and Dare Band. I was brought up in the brass band world, being originally from […]

The quartet has now returned to London after a week at the Dartington International Summer School. A week of masterclasses on solo works, and ensemble rehearsals culminated in a performance of some large scale works for trumpets and trombones. We did Paul Archibald’s arrangement of Te Deum by Charpentier with me and Nicole on piccolo […]

The quartet is returning to Dartington International Summer School to do a weeks course in August with Paul Archibald. For us it’s a great opportunity to clock up some rehearsal time, and to perform solo and ensemble works in daily masterclasses and informal concerts.
As a student I used to hop from one summer school to […]