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Come and Join the British Trombone Society (scroll down the page below for the link).
Wessex BTS presented their 2025 Xmas “Come and Play” on 14th December.
You can hear the performances here.
The British Trombone Society held their 40th anniversary event at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the 16th November.
Our new range of brass octet arrangements – OCTABRASS – are now being uploaded to the store. Most orchestras and bands have 3 trumpets and trombones as well as horns and tuba, so creating a traditional 10 piece ensemble means drafting in extra players.
This format of 3 trumpets (cornets), horn (in Eb or F), 3 trombones and tuba still gives a full, rich symphonic sound.
Octabrass arrangements are carefully crafted to be to be enjoyable to play for intermediate to advanced players as well as great to listen to. The arrangements work best for three trumpets/cornets, horn, three trombones and tuba but are flexible using a variety of substitute instruments (flugelhorn, baritone and euphonium) and all possible clefs.
The first arrangements are up:
Coventry Carol (click to go to the shop)– an imaginative fantasy for brass.
Carid Cyntaf (click here)– A beautiful Welsh folk song thoughtfully arranged as a trombone feature
with rich harmonies and contrasts.
Please check back for links to the arrangements as they go up.
Christmas trombone quartets. Interesting to listen to and fun to play (and cheap as chips!)
“Coventry Carol”: A fantasy on the well known Christmas carol, arranged for trombone, tuba (euphonium), bassoon or cello quartet (or a mix of all!) Score in C and parts in all appropriate keys and clefsIntermediate to advanced level. 2′ 30″ duration.
Listen to the youtube video of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra trombones performing it.
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”: A quirky, upbeat rhythmic remake of the well known Christmas carol, arranged for trombone, tuba (euphonium), bassoon or cello quartet (or a mix of all!) Score in C and parts in all appropriate keys and clefs Intermediate to advanced level. 3′ duration.
“Green Growth the Holly”: Green Groweth the Holly is a Renaissance Carol thoughtfully arranged for instrumental quartet and Choir. It will work with trombones, bassoons, cellos or a tuba quartet. It comes with a piano accompaniment as well as parts for SATB Choir and tenor/bass instruments in tenor, bass and Bb treble clef (top 3 instruments). Alternatively it can be performed by Choir with either Piano or Organ accompaniment. It is just under 4 minutes long and is intermediate difficulty level.
Check out the new free trombone tip downloads.
The 2024 BTS Festival is this weekend at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Click here for a link to the BTS site. I will be joining Josh Cirtina for the warm up at 9am on Saturday. You can download the bass clef version here and the treble clef version here.
Four Character Pieces for Bassoon and Piano is now published on SheetMusicDirect. Click here for more details and the piano accompaniment mp3 file.
Wells Cathedral School are hosting a BTS event on the 20th January 2024. Byron Fulcher, James Buckle and the RCM trombone choir will be there. 10-5 with a performance at 6pm.
Details at https://www.britishtrombonesociety.org
British Trombone Society Wessex Region are holding an event on the 19th November at Bournemouth University.
There will hopefully be a performance by Trinity Laban trombone choir as well as the usual professional tips and lots of playing. Suggested times are 10 until 4pm and I will add details as they are known. Look forward to seeing you there!
Bournemouth Symphony Brass Octet will be performing at Stalbridge on the 28th October and Sydling St. Nicholas on the 30th November. Details of our Christmas concert will also be out soon.
Conical Sonicals, our education brass quintet, has performed in Broadstone, Corfe Mullen, Swanage and Langton Matravers this season.
Trombone Quartets for Christmas
Great arrangements for trombone quartet of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Coventry Carol. Also available for 8 piece brass. Email trombonemusic@mac.com for seasonal prices on digital or hardcopy versions.
Dorset Trombones Christmas Blow.
We will be supporting the Dorset Rural Music School Christmas Concert on December the 5th at Blandford Parish Church. If you would like to come along and join in please email trombonemusic@mac.com for details. 7pm start – play while audience arrive and then perform a couple of numbers at the start. Followed by festive drinks at a local hostelry!
The Wells BTS day will be on the 21st January 2023 at Wells Cathedral School featuring the fabulous Bones Apart. Please see the BTS website for more details here.
The BTS Wessex region held our 2022 event on the 15th October at the Corn Exchange in Blandford. You can see the videos of the performance here.
A great opportunity fro young brass players in Dorset – Jurassic Brass is starting up again for the Autumn term 2022 at Parkstone Grammar School, Tuesday evenings 5.30-6.30pm led by Robb Tooley and Kevin Morgan. Grade 5+. First session 27th September. For more information and to sign up please click here.
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra are live-streaming concerts now. See bsolive.com for more information.
Bournemouth Symphony Brass Quintet performed at Dillington House, Somerset on November 17th 2019 as part of a musical appreciation weekend. They also appeared at Winfrith and Marnhull churches as part of the Artsreach Rural Touring Charity. See here for more Artsreach events in Dorset.
Michael Rath Trombones held an open day and massed blow on September 28th, 2019 at Holmfirth Civic Hall, 11.30 until 6.30. Some of the music on this site was be played. See the Rath Trombones page for more information.
Warwick Music have published Kevin’s “Three Ceremonial Pieces” and “Bag O’Tales” in arrangement for flexible brass quartet. See here for more information.
Portsmouth Partita was premiered at the Royal Marines School of Music low brass day on May 5th with with soloists Robbie Harvey, Simon Minshall, David Childs and Les Neish.
Zen and the Art of the Trombone is available in paperback and ebook versions. We have more stock of both treble and bass clef versions. A new approach to learning the trombone, this tutor begins using simple techniques to quickly build your musicianship and technical ability, developing through to a routine that will be of value to the advanced player. More information here.
“Clearing Up” is a break up song for female vocalist beautifully sung by Bryony Purdue. See the video here.
“The Brazilian Attack” is an original dance track written by Kevin Morgan and Ron Dawson to celebrate all things latin in rhythm, the World Cup and Olympics in Brazil and the annual Rio Carnival. See the video here.
“Lest We Forget” is a song of remembrance by Ron Dawson and Kevin Morgan for performance by solo voice or full choir or male voice choir with accompaniments for brass and wind bands as well as piano. The last performance was in November 2018 at the NEC Birmingham with a children’s choir of over 2000 and a full symphony orchestra.
You can contact us at trombonemusic@mac.com