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Seriously Brass: A Tale As Yet Untold

Saturday 24 August, 7.30pm-9.30pm The Piano

Music Director Tyme Marsters

Guest Percussion Soloist Roanna Funcke

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Woolston Brass with Music Director Tyme Marsters brings you Seriously Brass: A Tale As Yet Untold on Saturday 24 August 7.30pm at The Piano featuring Guest Percussion Soloist Roanna Funcke. Associate Principal Percussionist of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and sought-after Percussion Tutor and Performer, Roanna has toured internationally with the National Band of New Zealand and Woolston Brass. Don’t miss this special concert showcasing exceptional talent and remarkable music!

Woolston Brass will open the programme with Edward Gregson’s first major test piece The Plantagenets, written for the 1973 National Brass Band Championships. This virtuosic symphonic study of rhythmic and melodic variety portrays the majestic mood and feelings of an age of chivalry – that of the House of Plantagenet which lasted from the middle of the twelfth century to the end of the fourteenth.

Woolston Brass combined with outstanding Guest Soloist Roanna Funcke will perform Percussion Concerto written by Jennifer Higdon. Premiered in 2005 by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the work has been transcribed for brass band by Pablo Ruiz Henao for this special performance. Higdon makes wondrous use of percussion in all its wide spectrum of sounds and unleashes a kinetic storm of urban beats balanced by passages of Asian-influenced reflections.

Woolston Brass will perform Stijn Aertgeerts’ reflective work Hope that symbolises and portrays hope and love, and the belief in humanity to come out stronger than everything that drives us apart, ultimately working towards a better world. Woolston Brass will conclude the concert with Philip Sparke’s major work A Tale As Yet Untold. The melodic theme set in three movements expresses the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity and how the beauty of music can provide the human soul peace, hope and optimism.