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Onyx to record The Madness Industry

We are pleased to announce next month we will be recording one of our recent commissions for NMC Recordings. Composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, The Madness Industry was for written in 2012 for our tour for Music in the Round. Using conventional and some not so conventional techniques (cardboard flaps!) it was a piece that quickly became…

New Music Available at Onyx Brass Publishing

We are very excited to announce that from Friday 8th April our updated catalogue of sheet music will be available from our sister site, Onyx Brass Publishing. Over the last eighteen months, Timothy Jackson, our Composer-in-Association and Typesetter-in-Chief has been poring over our more of our scores and rendering them fit for publishing. The finished…

March is the beginning of JAM 2016

March 17th sees the opening of JAM 2016 at St. Brides Church, Fleet Street. Onyx has been involved with JAM since its inception and its core mission to promote new music complements the group’s ethos perfectly. This year we will be playing two pieces by Thea Musgrave and Judith Bingham that we have already premiered…

Onyx Tour the South West

After almost two years in planning, our trip to the South West of England was a resounding success. Fitting in six days work into four was always going to be a challenge but the rewards for us, and hopefully everyone we met, far outweighed the effort expended. We estimate that we performed and worked with 450…

New French representation

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now represented by Satirino Artist Management in France. You can check out our page on their website here and book us for all concert in France directly with Ian Malkin. www.satirino.fr ianmalkin@satirino.fr Tel +33 977 198 077 Mob +33 675 001 546

Onyx are Number 1 in the charts!

Onyx Brass are currently sitting top of the UK Classical Chart with their Hyperion records album ‘Coronation Te Deum’. Joining forces with The Choir of Westminster Abbey under the baton of James O’Donnell in a spectacular celebration of the music of Hubert Parry, the critically acclaimed album made it’s UK Classical Chart debut at number…

On an Overgrown Path CD

For the first time in the recorded output of Onyx Brass we have undertaken the challenge of a disc of Romantic music. By definition, a large section of the repertoire for brass quintet consists of arrangements of music originally written for other instruments, as this particular combination of instruments as chamber ensemble has only been…