One of the most engaging concerts I have attended in some time. Their obvious enthusiasm for the repertoire was infectious. I’ve never heard contemporary music sound so accessible. The audience loved it.
Tom Lewis, EMI Classics
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It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks for Onyx Brass. The preparations for Tour de Brass! are now well underway and we are scouring the country for its best bandstands and public spaces, and can’t wait to get started. With Tour de Brass! on the horizon, you might imagine us swapping trumpets for Piña Coladas? Feet up in front of…
An Onyx Brass JAM Session
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…
Tour de Brass! supported by the Leche Trust
We’re delighted to announce we have been awarded £5,000 towards our Tour de Brass! project in 2014. The Leche Trust was set up to support – among other things – arts projects, the preservation of Georgian buildings, and projects which promote good relations between Britain and the third world. The grant is a huge step in our funding campaign,…
Tour de Brass!
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…
Alan Thomas to join Onyx Brass
After the sad news at the beginning of the week we are happy to now announce the very good news that Alan Thomas will be our new trumpeter. When we started talking about a replacement for Brian, little did we know that the four of us would be in total agreement of who to ask.…