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.
For Regent Brass, it really was time to plan a ‘Knight on the Town’ (see what I did there!) as we celebrated our amazing 3rd prize at the London & Southern Counties Regional Qualifiers (First Section) contest yesterday. Up against 14 other bands on Phil Lawrence’s imaginative and yet challenging score ‘A Day in the Life of a Knight’ the band really did find our inner ‘film music’ selves as we put up a performance on the Gordon Craig stage…
The Regent Bands are looking forward to welcoming Sarah Groarke-Booth to a workshop event to be held on Sunday, 12th March at the home of Regent Brass – Chalk Farm Salvation Army. The session will focus on the upcoming London and Southern Counties Regional Finals and the two test pieces being prepared. First up, Regent Brass will spend some time working through the musical challenges presented by Phil Lawrence’s imaginative score ‘A day in the life of a knight’. After…
As we prepare for our Regional Finals assault and beyond, Regent Brass are delighted to welcome several new players to our ranks who have joined in recent months. Joining us on Principal Euphonium, we welcome Brian Le Tissier. Brian is well known to various members of the band, via his wind band connections with City of London Symphonic Winds as well as his previous Brass Band connections. Brian is an experienced soloist and brings solid leadership to our tenor section.…
Regent Brass would like to thank our friends at Epping Forest Band for their generous loan of two Bb tubas which the band was delighted to begin to make use of at our rehearsal on Thursday last week. The instruments have come at a vital time for the band as we prepare for the regional finals and our performance of Phil Lawrence’s ‘A Day in the Life of a Knight’ at Stevenage on Saturday 18th March. We have been delighted…
