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Besses trio of new composers |
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Besses O’th Barn announce three music associates who will compose and work with the band, promoting new works for brass band.
Besses O’th Barn brass band are well known for pioneering new works, right from the early days when Alexander Owen and John Henry Iles were associated with the band. More recently the band has commissioned or premiered works such as Images (John McCabe), Of Knights and Castles (Ray Premru), Australian Fantasy (Gordon Langford) and concertos for tuba by both Edward Gregson and Joseph Horovitz. It is with this illustrious history that the band and MD Jonathan Corry invites three skilled composers in the guise of Dorothy Gates, Paul Drury and Daniel Basford.
Dorothy Gates hails from Belfast, but now resides in New York where she works in the SA music editorial department she has had many works recorded and performed by bands such as the New York Staff Band, The International Staff Band and the much celebrated Hannaford Street Silver Band. After gaining a Bachelor and Masters degrees in music Dorothy worked with great composers such as Stephen Bulla and also played in the jazz trombone ensemble “Spiritual to the Bone”.
Scotsman Paul Drury began his musical career within the SA on tuba and became principal tuba of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. Paul also performed as a concerto soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. An avid bandsman, Paul plays with the Unison Kinneil band and has had many works published by the SA, in fact his march “Jubilee” is the title track of the latest International Staff Band recording.
Daniel Basford is a young man who learnt piano, cello, bassoon and percussion before turning to composition. He is just entering his fourth year of a Bmus course at the Royal Northern College of Music with the mainstream composer David Horne. His recent works include “Riot for Orchestra”, “Concerto for Saxophone”, “Threads for seven players”, first performed at the RNCM in February 2004 and several works for symphonic wind band. Already Daniel has produced two wonderful works for brass band including “Xavier fanfare” (with organ) and a very fresh and original arrangement of the famous Ulster melody, “Londonderry Air”.
MD Jonathan Corry and Besses are thrilled with having such composers associated with the band and eagerly look forward to working with them and pioneer more new works for brass band. |