Archive for the 'Education' Category

I hope you all have a fantastic Easter! We have all been really busy in the lead up to Easter, as a group and individually. With Easter being so early, lots of concerts have been crammed into a very short space of time. The weekend before Easter was extremely busy – every musician I know […]

Just back from the Cheltenham Music Festival and had a fabulous time. Both premieres, Blockhead - Maxim Bendall and Berceuse in a Box - Paul Whitmarsh, went down well and was great to have both composers at the recital. (Maxim conducted his piece so was extra important he came along!). It was great to hear […]

Last week was an exciting and varied week for Bella Tromba. Monday saw us at a Live Music Now training day on working with Young Offenders and Youth Offending Teams. It was a really interesting day split into two sections. The first session was lead by two members of a Youth Offending […]

So far 2007 has been incredibly busy for Bella Tromba and after a hectic few weeks before Easter the quartet finally has a bit of room to breathe (before the next onslaught starts!)
The end of March saw us on another mini tour, this time to Deryshire and Shropshire. We kicked the tour off with […]

SPNM, Bella Tromba and the Cheltenham Music Festival are launching a competition to find a talented composer from the SPNM short list to write a piece to be premiered by Bella Tromba at the Cheltenham Music Festival 2007.
Over the last few years we have given many premieres and thoroughly enjoyed working with composers. Our […]

There are some great brass concerts coming up in London over the next few weeks if you love the sound of symphonic brass. If you haven’t got a date for Valentines Day or want to take your partner to hear some beautiful music than go to the Royal College of Music on Thursday. You can […]

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 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 […]

Another week, another tour! Well, that’s what its felt like this last month. Not that I’m complaining, it’s great to be so busy. We’ve spent the last week in lovely Yorkshire on a mini tour for Live Music Now doing 2 to 4 concerts a day in various special needs schools. […]

Bella Tromba travelled up to Wales on the afternoon of Sunday 11th June, in the roasting heat, with a car filled to the brim ready for our busy and exciting week ahead. My car has never been so full we had with us about 10 trumpets between us, mutes, hosepipes, clothes and ball dresses; there […]