Good to get underway with rehearsals for our New Music Biennial project, Holocene, this week with the composer, Ailís Ní Ríain in attendance. Performing alongside a brass band, and 4 cymbals the piece promises to be an assault on the senses, using many forms of advanced technique including harmon and plunger mute for the horn.…
Great to see the Brass website 4BarsRest write an article about our NMB2025 commission, Holocene by Ailís Ní Ríain. Featuring Hammonds Band in Bradford and Amersham Band in our London Performances, follow this link to read the full article
Today (18th Feb) we are pleased to announce that alongside Irish composer and writer, Ailís Ní Ríain, we have been chosen to appear in the New Music Biennial Celebrations of 2025. The free, ticketed festival will take place on 6-8 June in Bradford as part of their 2025 UK City of Culture, and 4-6 July…
March 9th 2025 will see the quintet along with Katherine Arnold, present a concert of the major pieces of brass music composed by Malcolm Arnold. Headlining will be the Symphony for Brass Instruments. Written for 10 players it is major work lasting around 25 minutes, and will be the first time that Onyx Brass will…
It was great to welcome in the New Year with the recording of some more new music this January. We are so privileged as a group that many composers write and send music to us for performance and recording so in a window in everybody’s tight schedules, we managed to arrange a day to commit…
As part of the celebration and launch of our latest recording in 2025, we are pleased to announce that the group will be making its debut at the Aldeburgh Festival. Central to our visit to Snape Maltings on the 29th June, will be the performance of two neglected works by Benjamin Britten that are on…
At the end of last week, we spent the two days being looked after by the Royal College of Music for our third collaboration with conductor, John Wilson, and fourth with Chandos Records . Our new recording will have music for quintet to large brass ensemble with piano and will contain a mixture of British…
