A quick two day trip of North East England is on the agenda this February with a visit to Newcastle University and Helmsley. 9th February and we are working with students of the brass department of Newcastle University. This will lead them to join us for our lunchtime concert which includes premieres of music by…
August 2016 sees visits to two festivals for Onyx Brass. First of all on the 17th August and we perform at the Collegium Maius, Cracow for the Music in Old Crakow Festival. The concert will take place, weather permitting, in the courtyard of Poland’s oldest university and is part of a festival that sees concerts performed…
Two visits in a week to New Romney for the JAM on the Marsh Festival 2016 and they couldn’t be more different. Thursday 7th July and we open the festival with a concert in The Engine Shed, New Romney Station, home to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Surrounded by the engines and coaches of…
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…
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…
As the Tour de Brass! has drawn to close, the PRSF for Music Foundation interviewed Onyx Brass trombonist Amos Miller for their M-Magazine. Read the full interview here. Our favourite bit? Right at the end, when he says: …whenever we play, people are surprised at how flexible the group and its sound can be. We…
On September 7th, we visited Liverpool and Chester for the latest mini-tour of our big project of 2014. With the help of the Granada Foundation (and all our supporters), we were able to perform at Sefton Park in Liverpool (part of the Liverpool International Music Festival), Victoria Park in Widnes, and finally at the water’s…
