Brass

Recent highlights

• The RCM Big Band gave performances at the London Jazz Festival, and performed with legendary jazz drummer Peter Erskine
• RCM Brass players joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the BBC Proms rehearsals, as part of the sit-in scheme for postgraduate students on the specialist orchestral pathway. Each participating student on the pathway is assigned a mentor from the BBC SO and sits alongside them in rehearsals throughout the year
• The faculty hosted a number of masterclasses with high-profile visitors including star trumpeter Alison Balsom, horn players Radovan Vlatkovic and Alessio Allegrini, tuba player Sergio Carolino and Trombonist Jörgen van Rijen (Principal Trombone, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam)
• Major Peter Warlock recording made using the RCM Studios