Brass Explosion! 2010 Festival Programme

BrassExplosion! - ii - ADVERTEmirates Foreword by His Excellency
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FOREWORD BY
HIS EXCELLENCY
PAUL MADDEN
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER
SINGAPORE
I am delighted to welcome the Desford Colliery Band from the UK
to Singapore.
The sound of a brass band wafting through the air always reminds
me of summer holidays in England and brings a smile to my face.
It is particularly good to see the involvement of so many young
people in Brass Explosion Festival and Gala Concert. These are
the band members of the future. They are very lucky to have the
opportunity to perform alongside such a famous band as Desford.
I am sure that everyone is going to enjoy the show, both the
audience and the musicians.
H.E. Paul Madden
British High Commissioner

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Brass Explosion! Team
Fredi Sonderegger
(Trombone)
Switzerland, Singapore
Symphony Orchestra
Ian Ingram
(Trumpet)
UK, regular performer at
Java Jazz Festival
MESSAGE BY
DAVID LYNDON SMITH
A warm welcome to the first
ever Singapore Brass Explosion!
Over the next three days, we welcome over 200 brass performers made
up of international artists and many of Singapore’s premier music students.
They will perform, teach, learn and make music as friends.
The festival is designed to kick start our dream to contribute to Singapore
becoming a regional hub of excellence in brass musicianship. We believe
that exposure to the beauty and vibrancy of live brass playing, performed
by some of the best artists in the world, will inspire and encourage our
brass playing youngsters to reach their full potential. We want you to be
part of our mission.
We have master classes, celebrity recitals, a competition, a student festival
band made up of many nationalities, jazz performances, and as a finale a
Gala Concert featuring everyone!
Please enjoy our special event.
David Lyndon Smith
President, Brass Society (Singapore)
Jamie Hersch
(Horn)
US, Singapore Symphony
Orchestra
Kevin Steward
(Conductor)
UK, BrassArt
Mark Waltho
(Conductor)
UK, BrassArt
President’s Message Programme GALA CONCERT
Rebecca Watters
Davidson (Horn)
USA, Music Educator &
Advisor to BrassArt
PROGRAMME
Desford Colliery Band
Competition Ensemble
Desford Colliery Band
GALA CONCERT
IGNITION (Fanfare), Dr Kelly Tang
CARNIVAL ROMAIN, Berlioz, arr. Wright
DAS BUTTERBROT, FRENCH HORN EXTRAVGANZA, Mozart
CZARDAS, Strauss arr. Snell
BARITONE SOLO, Soloist Katrina Marzella
NIMROD, Elgar
RIVERDANCE, Bill Whelan, arr. Ray Farr
FESTIVAL, Zechariah Goh
COMPETITION RESULTS - presented by the British High Commissioner
PROCESSION TO THE MINSTER - with organ, Wagner
INTERMISSION
FOLK FESTIVAL, Shostakovich
CITY LIMITS, Bruce Fraser
SHEPHERD’S SONG, Goff Richards
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN, Klaus Badelt
Programme to be announced.
BRASS EXPLOSION!, Andy Scott
MEMORIES OF YOU with Soloist Henry Lowther, arr. Geldard
IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND
ROBIN HARRY, Soloist Emily Cumby
LETTER FROM HOME, Pat Metheny
BLUE BELLS OF SCOTLAND soloist Hidehiro Fujita, Trad.
PINES OF ROME with Faculty Brass Band, Respighi.
Desford Colliery Band
Festival Ensemble
Saxophone Ensemble
Desford Colliery Band
Henry Lowther &
Jeremy Monteiro
Desford Colliery Band

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SATURDAY 29 th May SUNDAY 30 th May
9.00 am
Festival Registration
(LASALLE College of the Arts)
Young brass musicians to register at LASALLE
College of the Arts. Introduction and ushering
to classrooms to follow.
10 am - 11 pm
Festival Ensemble rehearsal
(SIA Theatre)
Competition members to meet
(Room G301)
11 am - 12 pm
Master Class 1- Fundamentals of
Brass Playing
Rm: G301 Trumpet with Tristram Williams
Rm: G302 Horn with David Johnson
Rm: G306 Trombone with Bart van Lier
Rm: G303 Tuba with Micky Wrobleski
Rm: F305 Saxophone with Tim O’Dwyer
Rm: F307
Euphonium with Katrina Marzella
12.00 pm
Lunch Hour on the Green
Live music from Slide That and Tuba
Powerhouse ensembles
Programme is correct at time of
printing. Please refer to
www.BrassSociety.com for
updated information.
1.00 pm
Faculty Recital I SIA THEATRE
An up-close and personal audience
with our International Brass Faculty
Katrina Marzella, baritone
Low Shao Suan, piano
Goff Richards: Rangitoto
Sigvart Dagsland, arr. Frode Rydland:
Michelangelo
Bertrand Moren: Eastern Dances
David Lyndon Smith, trumpet
Lim Yan, piano
Prayer of Saint Gregory, Alan Hovhanness
Spanish Dance, Rodion Schedrin
Fredi Sonderegger, euphonium
Lim Yan, piano
Jukka Linkola: Euphonium Concerto 2nd &
3rd movement
Shannon Pittaway, bass trombone
Low Shao Suan, piano
Daniel Schnyder: Subzero
2.00 pm
Festival Ensemble rehearsal
(SIA THEATRE)
80 young brass musicians will rehearse in an
ensemble never heard before in Singapore.
Saxophone Ensemble Rehearsal
Room F305
Competitor’s Master Class I with
Singapore’s finest talent, and our
International Faculty
(LASALLE College of the Arts)
For locations, refer to the Saturday 11am
listing.
4.30 pm
Faculty Recital II SIA THEATRE
Brenden Wheeler, euphonium
Lim Yan, piano
Philip Wilby: Euphonium Concerto
Jamie Hersch, horn
Michael Hersch: Movement 16 From Last
Autumn
Allen Meek, trombone
Low Shao Suan, piano
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Piano & Trombone
Folke Rabe: Basta
Tristram Williams, trumpet
Aaron Cassidy: What Then Renders
Karl Heinz Stockhausen: Oberlippentanz
Franco Donatoni: Short
6.00 pm
SAX APPEAL (15 Minutes Café)
Grab a drink and enjoy music by top-notch
sax players from around the world.
9.00 pm
Jazz Explosion!
(INK Club Bar, Fairmont Hotel)
INK Club Bar is home to the King of Swing
Jeremy Monteiro, who during the Singapore
Brass Explosion! will play host to international
artistes Bart van Lier and Henry Lowther.
10.00 am
Festival Ensemble rehearsal
(SIA Theatre)
Competition members to meet
(Room G301)
11.30 am
Master Class II – Making Music
For locations, refer to the Saturday 11am
listing.
12.15 pm
Master Class III – Extended
Techniques
For locations, refer to the Saturday 11am
listing.
1.00 pm
Lunch Hour on the Green
Performance by the Competition Ensemble
2.00 pm
Faculty Recital III
Up-close and personal with the
International Brass Faculty
Tristram Williams, trumpet
Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una Melodia
Nicolaus Huber: Doux et Scintillant
Vinko Globokar: Corporel
Hidehiro Fujita, tuba
Aya Sakou, piano
William Kraft: Encounters II
Alec Wilder: Effie Suite
Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Piano & Tuba
Unai Urretxo. trombone
Lim Yan, piano
Stjepan Sulek: Sonata Vox Gabrieli
Astor Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Jose U. da Silva: Gizelle and Marquinhos No
Frevo
David Johnson, horn
Aya Sakou, piano
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 Movement 1
Franz Strauss: Nocturno
3.00 pm
Festival Ensemble rehearsal SIA
THEATRE
Competitor’s Master Class II with
our International Brass Faculty
For locations, refer to the Saturday 11am
listing.
Thomson Big Band Rehearses with
Bart van Lier and Henry Lowther
4.30 pm
Faculty Recital IV
Micky Wrobleski, tuba
Lim Yan, piano
John Stevens: Journey
J. B. Arban arr. by F.I.Nale: Carnival of Venice
Marc-Antoine Robillard, horn
Aya Sakou, piano
Paul Dukas: Villanelle
Olivier Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Etoiles
Appel Interstellaire
Michael Massong, trombone
Lim Yan, piano
Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant: Sonate in
G-Minor
Frank Martin: Ballade
Jonathan Clarke, trumpet
Aya Sakou, piano
Willy Brandt: Concert Piece
Leopold Mozart: Trumpet Concerto
5.30 pm
Instrumental Demonstration
Meet premier makers of some of the finest
brass instruments at the exhibition room.
They will talk about their work and passion
for making instruments.
6.00 pm
The Thomson Big Band Perform on
the Green
9.00 pm
Jazz Explosion!
(INK Club Bar, Fairmont Hotel)
Open Mic Sunday invites all jazz musicians
onstage for a jam session with Jazz Explosion!
guests.
MONDAY 31 st May
9.00 am - 4.00 pm
Brass Soloist Competition
(Lee Foundation Nanyang Academy
of Fine Arts)
A showcase of Singapore’s 24 brass finalists,
competing for the inaugural ‘Singapore Brass
Soloist 2010’ title and a First Prize of $1000.
7.30 pm
Gala Concert
(Victoria Concert Hall)
The Brass Explosion! Gala Concert is the
grand finale of the three-day Singapore Brass
Explosion! music festival.
10.00 pm
Post-Festival Party
(Victoria Concert Hall)

International Faculty
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The International
Faculty for the Brass Explosion!
represent over nine different countries. All are professional musicians currently employed by the world’s best orchestras,
bands, conservatories and schools of music. Their passion for music and brass playing has drawn them to Singapore for the
Brass Explosion and their knowledge and artistry has vastly enhanced the Brass Explosion! experience for everyone involved.
Desford Colliery Band
Founded in 1898 and comprising 30 musicians, Desford Colliery Band is considered
one of the finest exponents of the brass medium in the world. The Band’s repertoire
spans Baroque to Jazz; its soloists are among the finest you will hear.
Desford Colliery Band have achieved great popularity and success as an ambassador
for British culture and heritage abroad and have received accolades from audiences in
Moscow, Chicago, Singapore, Bangkok, and many European capital cities. The ensemble
is in demand for international festivals.
Desford Colliery Band has recorded many CDs gaining much critical acclaim. More
recently, they starred in their very own hit television show The Real Brassed Off; a flyon-the-wall
documentary.
Bart van Lier (Trombone)
Jeremy Monteiro (Piano)
Jeremy Monteiro, a jazz pianist, composer,
singer and educator has performed on the mainstage
of the Montreux Jazz Festival with his
group comprising the original Ramsey Lewis
Trio members: bassist, Eldee Young; drummer,
Isaac Redd Holt; saxophonist, John Stubblefield
and guitarist O’Donel Levy. At Montreaux, the
band received a three minute standing ovation!
Jeremy has released over 20 albums, and has
performed or recorded with jazz greats including
James Moody, Michael Brecker, Lee Ritenour,
Herbie Mann, Paulinho DaCosta, Ernie Watts,
Charlie Haden, Simon & Garfunkel and Toots
Thielemans. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
for the encouragement of the Arts (RSA); current
Fellows include Nelson Mandela and Stephen
Hawking. Jeremy is the first pianist and jazz
musician accorded the Cultural Medallion,
Singapore’s pinnacle award in arts achievement.
He is Professor & Visiting Chair of Jazz at
LASALLE College of the Arts.
International Faculty
Henry Lowther (Trumpet)
Henry Lowther has played just about every genre of music in the past 60 years, but jazz has always
been his driving passion. He began as trumpet player in the Salvation Army and later attended the
Royal Academy of Music where he studied violin. In the Sixties, he played with rock legends such
as Manfred Mann, John Mayall and Keef Hartley with whom he appeared at Woodstock. He also
experiments with total free improvisation jazz.
He has frequently played with British jazz greats such as Michael Gibbs, Michael Garrick, Graham
Collier, Kenny Wheeler, Stan
Tracey, John Taylor, John Surman,
Gordon Beck, Pete King, and
many more. Henry often guests
with major symphony orchestras
and ensembles; as a session
musician he has recorded with
Simon Rattle, Elton John, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, Van Morrison, Henry Mancini, Bing Crosby and
Nelson Riddle amongst many others.
Jason Katsikaris
(Conductor)
Australia, Desford
Colliery Band
Andy Scott
(Saxophone)
UK, Apollo
Saxophone Quartet
Katrina Marzella
(Baritone)
UK, Birmingham
Conservatoire
Bart van Lier has been a freelance trombonist in the Netherlands since 1968. He has played with groups such as the Netherlands
Jazz Orchestra, the Slide Hampton Trombone Quartet, the Mel Lewis-Joe Haider Big Band, Peter Herbolzheimer’s Big Band, and
the Skymasters and more. He was appointed first trombonist and soloist of the Metropole Orchestra in 1992, and since 1990 his own
groups Bart’s Bones and Trio Bart van Lier have been performing for the Nederland Impresariaat.
He teaches trombone at the Hilversum Conservatory, The Hague Conservatory, and the Rotterdam Conservatory. Since 1994, Bart has
designed several models of trombones for Kühnl & Hoyer, all bearing his name. He has written a technique book, Coordination Training
Program for Trombone Playing. Bart has toured and presented workshops throughout the world, including Germany, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Hungary, the UK, India, Japan, and the US. He has numerous recordings to his credit.
Allen Meek
(Trombone)
US, Singapore Symphony
Orchestra
Brenden Wheeler
(Euphonium)
UK, Hepworth (Persimmon
Homes) Band
Marc-Antoine
Robillard (Horn)
Canada, Singapore
Symphony Orchestra
Henry has become increasingly interested in composition and formed his own
band, Still Waters, to enable him to pursue this interest further.
David Johnson (Horn)
US, Conservatorio della
Svizzera Italiana in
Lugano Switzerland
Michael Massong
(Trombone)
Germany, Aalborg
Symphony Orchestra
Tim O’Dwyer
(Saxophone)
Australia, LASALLE
faculty
Hidehiro Fujita
(Tuba)
Japan, Singapore
Symphony Orchestra
Micky Wrobleski
(Tuba)
US, China Conservatory
of Music
Tristram Williams
(Trumpet)
Australia, New Music
Ensemble ELISION
John Clarke
(Trumpet)
UK, Hong Kong
Philharmonic Orchestra
Shannon Pittaway
(Trombone)
Australia, Singapore
Symphony Orchestra
Unai Urretxo
(Trombone)
Spain, Daejeon
Philharmonic Orchestra,

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Festival Events
Brass Explosion! features numerous activities spread over three full days. The festival provides a
platform for brass musicians of all ages, abilities and nationalities to share, learn and play together in
celebration of brass music.
Soloist Competition
With prizes that include $1000 cash, the Brass Explosion! Soloist Competition is the first under-30 year-old brass soloist
competition in Singapore and is open to players of all brass instruments - trumpet, horn, euphonium, trombone and tuba.
Before they competed, finalists received individual coaching from our International Faculty. In addition to the competition,
finalists will join together to perform a brand new piece of music commissioned especially for Brass Explosion! composed by
Dr. Zechariah Goh entitled Festival. The work will receive its world premiere at the Gala Concert at Victoria Concert Hall.
The performance is a culmination not just of the hard work put into the competition, but is a celebration of
polishing young brass talent to their fullest potential.
Festival Ensemble
Comprised primarily of young musicians from Singapore’s local and
international schools, the Festival Ensemble is testimony of friendship forged
through music. These young musicians, the youngest of whom is nine yearsold,
came together for the very first time during the first morning of the
Brass Explosion! weekend. Every world class musician was once a beginner;
the Festival Ensemble showcases the future of the brass music movement.
Under the direction of Kevin Steward, Mark Waltho, and Tim O’Dwyer, the
ensemble performances are a featured highlight of the Gala Concert at
Victoria Concert Hall.
Master Classes & Workshops
Jazz Nights
Brass Explosion! Master Classes present a unique
opportunity for amateur brass musicians to learn from some
of the world’s finest brass musicians. The sessions will focus
on important aspects of playing music including, techniques,
artistry, musicality and instrument specific tips. The Master
Classes are free of charge and open to musicians of all ages
and skills – bring your instrument and join us!
The Fairmont Hotel’s INK Club Bar is the setting for the nightly Jazz Explosion!
The Jeremy Monteiro Trio, the resident band at INK, has opened up the stage to
welcome our Brass Explosion! International Faculty. Guest artists Henry Lowther
and Bart van Lier headline the event and their first visit to Singapore promises to
be an experience not to be missed! Sunday night’s Open Mic session provides an
opportunity to hear international musicians and home-town talent alike. Expect
to hear jazz standards, original compositions, new arrangements and spontaneous
creations in one of Singapore’s most sophisticated and elegant jazz clubs in the
heart of the city.
International Faculty Recitals
The SIA Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts is the
setting for a series of daytime recitals by the Brass Explosion!
International Brass Faculty. Drop in on any of the four
different hour-long recitals over the weekend which will
feature brass music from a range of styles and eras.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Brass Society Singapore would like to thank and
acknowledge the following for their kind contribution
to the Brass Explosion!:
LASALLE College of the Arts
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Dr Kelly Tang
Dr Zechariah Goh

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