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Lucian Russell-Price (15) from Draycott,
was recently one of the award winners of a BBC Fame Academy Bursary. He
was chosen out of thousands of entries across the UK to buy a flügelhorn.
He is a specialist musician at Wells Cathedral School.
The official charity from Fame Academy recently announced the winners of
it's Instrument & Equipment Awards. The Awards, set up from £2.7m
generated over the Fame Academy Series, are designed to develop new
musical talent, giving away over 500 instrument grants worth up to
£1,200 each over 3 years to young people between the ages of 11-15.
"I was delighted and surprised as I knew thousands of people would enter
it"
"I am looking forward to the prospect of playing jazz ballads on such a
beautiful instrument"
He has been invited, for the third time, to play with the Banda
Municipal de Musica de Santa Cruz de Tenerife next Easter. His
performances will include a jazz ballad composed by his father and
played on his flugelhorn.
LSO Brass Academy
Chosen from brass players (aged 14-23), across the UK he was the
youngest to take part in a week of masterclasses, ensemble playing and
concerts with the principle brass players of the London Symphony
Orchestra as part of their Discovery Project.
"I was surprised to get in and was the youngest one there of 40 brass
players from the whole of the UK. Most people were music college
students"
"It was a fantastic week of high class playing."
"My masterclass with Rod Franks (principle trumpet) will stay with me
forever. "
"The work he did undoubtedly helped with my diploma the following week."
ATCL Recital Performance Diploma
A week after attending the LSO Brass Academy Course Lucian
gained his Performance Diploma from the Trinity College of Music.
[usually taken whilst at music college]
"astounded, all my hard work paid off"
"I couldn't believe that at 15, I had actually reached Diploma standard.
It was, and still, is unbelievable"
TRUMPET CONCERTO
Lucian's father, composer Keith Amos, is currently
writing a Trumpet Concerto for symphony orchestra which Lucian hopes to
premiere in the near future.
Lucian is currently a specialist musician
at Wells Cathedral School but will be moving to Chethams School of Music
in Manchester next September for his sixth form.
Keith Amos
BMus ARAM
Composer, arranger, conductor and
pianist
. Works written
for solo instrument, ensembles, wind band and symphony orchestra
. Over the last
5 years a number of works written for Lucian are now on the Associated
Board Exam Syllabus
. Just
completed Trumpet Concerto No. 2 which he hopes to premiere in 2005
.
Commercial arrangements of original pop/Latin
tunes written for Lucian.
. These
arrangements were written for band when Lucian was invited to solo with
Banda Municipal de Musica de Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Swedish
Royal Navy Band
. Keith
accompanies Lucian as a pianist and conductor
.
They share the common interest of big bands,
notably Stan Kenton and Woody Herman and have had the privilege of
meeting some of these world class musicians.
One of Keith's most successful composition is
The Steadfast Tin Soldier for Narrator & Symphony Orchestra which has
been hailed as a natural successor to Peter & the Wolf.
Premiered by Richard Baker with the BBC Philharmonic.
Hans Andersen's bi-centenary in 2005 will be celebrated globally. A
number of performances of this work are already booked for next year.
An Easy Piano Picture Book of the Steadfast Tin Soldier was illustrated
and published by Geraldine Russell-Price
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