This Sunday 29th June sees us giving the world premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Funeral Music, a work that has been completed from fragments that live in the Britten Pears Archive in Aldeburgh by composer Bernard Hughes. Though similar in scoring, this is a different piece from the Russian Funeral for Brass and Percussion. It is…
We are so pleased to have received a number of reviews for our 30th Birthday Recording including five stars from BBC Music Magazine and made it their disk of the week. The closing paragraph read: “Not just awesome chops and feel, but an ability to sound like so much more than merely five brass instruments.…
Containing ten new works for brass and with all except one work commissioned by Onyx Brass, The sun is free to flow with the sea is a celebration of not only our reaching the grand old age of 30, but also of the ethos of the group from its inception three decades ago. We are…
For Onyx, it is a very happy new year indeed. We are thirty years old and have decided to celebrate. As a birthday present to ourselves, we have commissioned some fabulous new music for brass. The year starts with us recording these for the NMC label and then our concerts will feature them as the…
Tuesday December 13th sees Onyx visit the Cambridgeshire arts venue of Stapleford Granary to present a concert of our favourite classics, interwoven with new works by Emily Hall and a seasonal flavour to round the evening off. Add in the the candlelit atmosphere, the performance promises something for almost everyone. Situated just five miles from…
During the Covid-19 lockdown period in the UK, we have been searching for things we can put together from a distance, and we are so grateful to Emily Hall who has allowed us to transcribe her short work, Eternity, for two Flugelhorns and French horn. Originally written for three female voices, the piece consists of three simple lines that create a timeless, mesmeric quality.
The piece was put together by first recording the audio remotely then each player choosing a suitable location near to their homes to shoot their video.
