We’re excited to be performing at the John Armitage Memorial (JAM) concert series this summer, a fantastic initiative dedicated to yearly commissioning and performing of new music, often sympathetically programming new music with the more familiar. We have performed at JAM regularly since 2000, and this July we’ll be performing four wonderful concerts and bringing a nine schools…
After a bit of a roller coaster few weeks we are very pleased to announce that along with the compose David Sawer, the group has been one of 20 projects to be chosen to take part in the PRS for Music’s first UK New Music Biennial. Our project is to take David’s new composition ‘Bronze…
On September 25th 2012 at the Richmond Concert Society we will be giving the premiere of The Madness Industry by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. This is one of our major new commissions this year and we are very excited about it. On first look it will be an excellent and challenging addition to our repertoire. This is…
For our upcoming Purcell Room concert BBC trombonist Dan Jenkins has written us a new non-brass piece. After rehearsing it we think it’s going to be great if a little daunting! Here is what Dan himself has to say about it. “Brass playing is a taxing business, so in January 2012, Onyx Brass asked me…
Our tour to Ireland is getting very close and rehearsals are going well. One of the highlights of the trip will be performing our new commission by Andrew Hamilton, slow phrases piece. We asked him for a few thoughts about it: “Often it takes months to find material that resonates but with this piece it came…
We can now confirm our tour of Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland this coming April. The tour will consist of 11 concerts in association with Moving on Music, and Music Network – both innovative organisations promoting and showcasing exciting music in their respective countries. As part of the tour, we’ve commissioned a new work for brass quintet by the exciting…
We are delighted that the PRS for Music Foundation and the RVW Trust have agreed to fund us in their latest project – a new commission from Cheryl Frances-Hoad to be premiered in Autumn 2012. The exciting young British composer has won a whole host of awards for her work and is one of the rising stars of the British music scene.…
