January 6th saw Onyx Brass spend a day working with the brass musicians of the Household Division at Wellington Barracks. Split up into informal discussions and some joint blowing, it gave us a great opportunity for us to get some rehearsal in for our joint concert at the Royal Military Chapel at the Barracks on…
We are in the process of shooting and uploading a new series of pure and simple videos with a single camera and no editing. One Minute of… will be shot during rehearsals for performances. Our first is a clip of the sublime Bach Chorale Prelude, Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland. Over the coming months more will appear as we tour the country. Also the sheet music and full audio recordings will all be available to stream, purchase and download.
Onyx’s newest release, Onyx Noir, celebrates the British jazz scene with 12 new works from 12 of the greatest contemporary jazz composers. To continue the celebration, Onyx have released a new music video to Laurence Cottle’s ‘Holy Chalcedony’.
It’s always a good day when you get a recording review in Gramophone and we have had one or two over twenty five years. However imagine our joy to find out that in the June issue we have reviews for Fanfares and Onyx Noir. The Chandos Fanfares with John Wilson is described as a “superb…
Coming up this May we have a busy little period of ten days. First of all there are four opportunities to see Onyx in concert. 10th May 1pm Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BA Programme to include music from Fanfares and Fugues. FREE 12th May 730pm Mayfield Festival, St Dunstans Church, Mayfield TN20 6AB Its…
We are so excited to announce that our NMC Recordings jazz project, Onyx Noir, will be launching at The Vortex Jazz Club, London on June 5th. Almost ten years in the planning, commissioning, recording and editing, come 8pm, we will present it to the world. The disc contains twelve new compositions all commissioned by ourselves…
