National Youth Brass Band to host 70th anniversary concert
Hattie Fisk
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Marking both its birthday and new leadership, NYBBGB will perform a celebratory concert on 6 August.
Joy Newbould
Celebrating 70 years of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (NYBBGB), 80 young brass players aged between 14 and 19 will performing on 6 August.
The concert will mark a new chapter for the band, under the new leadership of CEO Mark Bromley and director of artistic planning Dr Robert Childs.
The new appointments follow the unexpected death of long-standing administrator Philip Biggs in 2019, and the artistic director Bramwell Tovey stepping down in 2020 due to ill health. Tovey, who was an award-winning conductor and composer, died on 12 July 2022.
Led by conductor Martyn Brabbins, the concert will feature the first prominent singer to perform with the NYBBGB, soprano Nardus Williams.
The programme’s centrepiece is the world premiere of commissioned new work by renowned Scottish composer Peter Graham, titled Hyperlink.
Mark Bromley, CEO, says: ‘The musicians of the National Youth Brass Band represent the best our country’s teenagers have to offer and we aim to provide an outstanding musical experience for them. With its excellent conductor, soloist and programme, our unmissable 70th birthday concert perfectly encapsulates our plans for the future.’
‘On one hand we are raising the artistic bar higher than ever through new commissions and working with world-class conductors, soloists, teachers and composers, and on the other, we are providing more opportunities than ever for outstanding young brass and percussion players to participate.’
