Regent Brass are a British Brass Band, based at Chalk Farm, North London. Musical Director is Alan Duguid, and the band is currently in Section 1 of the National Grading Tables. We rehearse on Thursdays from 1930, at the Salvation Army church, Chalk Farm, NW3 2BL.
Regent Community Brass was formed in May 2012 to provide an outlet for local musicians, both young and old, to get involved in playing with a brass band. The band rehearses on Tuesdays from 1930, at the Church of the Ascension, Wembley. The band competes in Section 3 of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.
On Sunday 30th June, the band took part at the “Gladstonbury Festival” – Brent’s own festival of international food, art, music and dance held in Gladstone Park, Dollis Hill. Regent Brass provided an introduction to the whole event, opening the show on the main stage to a growing audience who took advantage of the beautiful weather to visit the event. The band performed a range of lighter musical styles, ranging from ABBA and the Beatles through to Irving Berlin and…
Both Regent Brass and Regent Community Brass bands held a landmark event on 27th June as they performed the world premiere of “Ink Garden” by acclaimed composer Raymond Yiu. This new work for brass band was commissioned to mark the first anniversary of the formation of Regent Community Brass and was made possible thanks to funding from the BBC Performing Arts Fund and PRS for Music Foundation. The concert itself also marked the first musical performance in the heart of…
Regent Brass hosts the world premiere of Ink Garden Brent Civic Centre | Thursday 27th June, 7pm (doors 6.30pm) Regent Brass is delighted to be hosting the world premiere of Ink Garden, a new piece for brass band by award-winning composer Raymond Yiu. Ink Garden takes its title from an eponymous collection of Chinese calligraphy and graphics (first published in 1606) and is a tribute to the late Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), drawing inspiration from one of Bennett’s unpublished jazz…
