Regent Brass are a 28 piece Brass Band based in Wembley, North West London. Founded in 1985 to cater for young brass players in Brent that had left the youth set-up, Regent Brass has since risen to the top of the brass band scene.
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. This helps expand on the aims of Regent Brass.
Happy New Year from all of us at Regent! 2019 sees a remarkable double promotion for our bands. Just two short years after relegation, Regent Brass is delighted to once again be at London’s ‘top table of banding’ as we take our place in the London & Southern Counties Championship section. The band is looking forward to the stern challenge of Ray Steadman-Allen’s ‘Seascapes’ which is the set test in the contest. Also, just two years after relegation, Regent Community…
Saturday 2nd November saw Regent Brass take to the stage in two entertainment programmes in the First Section and Championship section at the Wychavon Entertainment Contest. Running in its 29th year, the contest has grown from strength to strength and now also awards an important qualification place to the Spring Festival in Blackpool. The band’s Championship programme included a fanfare composed by Lars Janocek, an Elizabethan Pavanne from the pen of John Bull, and the finale item was Gavin Higgins’…
2018 has been a good year so far for Regent Brass. The band’s Annual General Meeting was held in February, and a new management team for the band was elected. The band showed due appreciation to Ben Russell as the organisation’s outgoing chair, and welcomed Peter Yarde Martin to the role. In addition, a new band manager, Eldfrid Rongevaer, was also elected and she has already started to whip the organisation into shape! All of this came just in time…
2 Towns, 3 performances, 4 standing ovations, 2,500 miles… Regent Brass were happy to accept the invitation by the Summer Trumpet Academy in Kolbuszowa, Poland for the 2nd year to visit and perform. With 2 dedicated members of the bass team (well, 1 bass and one bass trombone – same thing, right?) on a mission over land with a van full of instruments and a plane of brass musicians, Regent Brass departed the United Kingdom and made haste to Poland.…
