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Programme

Something for everyone - Really!

Timetable

 

  • 10.30 to 11.15am - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Band – Ian Porthouse

  • 12 to to 1.15pm - Willebroek

  • 2pm to 3.15pm - Black Dyke Band

  • 4pm to 4.45pm - David Childs Euphonium Recital

  • 5.30pm to 6.45pm - Flowers

  • 7.30pm to 8.45pm Foden’s

  • Finish

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Willebroek

 

Song t(w)o the North - Lode Violet

Fantasia on a Flemish Sea Song, cornet soloist: Lode Violet - Simon Van Hoecke

Mirage  - Jan De Haan

Evolution - Five States of Change - Philip Sparke 

Own Choice Europeans 2026 

 

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Black Dyke Band

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Concert Prelude Philip Sparke 5

Elgar Variations - Martin Ellerby 15

Cornet Concerto 15 Derek Bourgeois  Cornet Soloist Tom Hutchinson

Four Cornish Dances14 Malcolm Arnold arr. Farr

Variations on an Enigma 15 Philip Sparke

5min Encore Mahalgasca or similar not to be printed on programme

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Flowers

 

Winds That Blow Against a Star, Kelly-Marie Murphy - 5 mins (Commissioned for our WMC Appearance)

Poor Paris, Love was your Achilles, Paul Saggers - Soloist Paul Richards

Own Choice European 2026

Ar Lan y Mor, Gavin Higgins

New major work for Euphonium, Lucy Pankhurst - 12 mins - Soloist Daniel Thomas (Commissioned for our WMC Appearance)

Pall Mall, Jonathan Bates

Music of the Spheres, Philip Sparke

 

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Fodens Band

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Tallis Variations - Sparke (15)
Concertino for Trombone - Larsson Soloist : John Barber
3. Sounds - Golland
4. Antiphonary – Lane
5. Orbital – Blackwood​​​​​

Elgar International Festival of Brass

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