This year’s MADhurst Festival will launch on Sunday 19th August with two very special Band events.
In the afternoon a 60 piece Brass band made up of some of the best young musical talent from across the UK will play a wide selection of well-known pieces from classic brass band numbers to Last Night of the Proms favourites.
The Brass Band programme will also feature two brand new pieces: ‘Fanfare for the Future’, a music commission especially for the MADhurst festival by Fodens Cornet player Andy Stevenson and a new Euphonium solo written for Royal Northern College of Music Student Matthew Watling by Composer Iain Mundy.
Following the Brass Band concert many of the musicians will demonstrate their diversity of talent as the Band transforms into a Big Band for an evening of classics from Buble to Sinatra.
Midhurst Man, Alistair Gibson has put together this special event and conducts each Band, he is excited to be building on the audience reaction last year ‘the 2011 concert was so well received that we instantly started planning for this year’ said Alistair; ‘I got immediate commitment from many talented young musicians who travel to Midhurst from all over the country’; ‘we have plans to make this year’s event even more special including new pieces that will be heard in public for the very first time’ he continued.
MADhurst Chairman Simon Goodale commented ‘we are very lucky to have someone like Alistair in our midst who can bring all these gifted young people from as far afield as Scotland to play at the MADhurst Festival’. Simon continued ‘The response from the audience last year was tremendous and we are delighted that the Band are back for the second time and are proud that they have chosen MADhurst as the place to launch new works’.
The plan is to hold the Brass Band concert in the late afternoon and the Big Band concert in the evening with food and a bar available in between the two. ‘This will kick the MADhurst Festival off in some style and we look forward to welcoming everyone to this very exciting concert programme’ commented Simon. Tickets will be available for each concert individually or a discounted ticket can be purchased covering both concerts.
The tickets are sure to sell fast and details as to when and where these will be available for sale will be announced on the MADhurst web site www.madhurst.co.uk