Music at Huddersfield

Brass Band studies at Huddersfield

The BMus Music is the ideal course to pursue Brass Band Studies. As a brass band musician, you would have an unrivalled quantity of individual tuition by a range of specialists, including members of internationally acclaimed brass bands (Black Dyke, Grimethorpe, YBS, Brighouse and Rastrick), composers and arrangers for brass.

Individual tuition from professional brass players

Major route performers receive one hour per week individual tuition:

Cornet	Phillip McCann (ex-principal cornet Black Dyke Mills, cond. Sellers)
Soprano cornet	Phillip McCann (ex-principal cornet Black Dyke Mills, cond. Sellers)
Flugel horn	Phillip McCann (ex-principal cornet Black Dyke Mills, cond. Sellers)
Tenor horn	Melvyn Bathgate (principal tenor horn, Brighouse and Rastrick)
Euphonium	David Thornton (principal euphonium, Black Dyke Mills)
Trombone	Jonathan Beatty (soloist with Yorkshire Building Society)
Tuba	Shaun Crowther (Grimethorpe Colliery Band)
Percussion	Chris Bradley (principal percussion, Opera North)

Specialise in brass studies in Years 2 and 3

Majoring in performance, you could take up to two thirds of your credit in brass-related subjects in years two and three.

Year 2:

Solo Performance	40 credits
Directed Ensembles (Brass Band)	20 credits
Scoring and arranging for brass	20 credits
Musicology 2	40 credits

Year 3:

Solo Performance	40 credits
Studies in Performance	20 credits
Chamber music OR Brass Band	20 credits
Brass Band research project	20 credits
Musicology 3	20 credits

University of Huddersfield Brass Band (cond. Phillip McCann)

• Weekly rehearsals (2 – 3 hours per week)
• Concerts in the university series, as well as popular recitals Leeds, Huddersfield and Dewsbury town halls
• Variety of challenging repertoire, from arrangements to innovative contemporary music
• Workshop opportunities for your own arrangements and compositions for brass

Access to the region’s thriving brass band community

Many students are members both of the University of Huddersfield band and an additional band in the area, such as Sellers International, Yorkshire Building Society, Hepworth, Pennine Brass, Slaithwaite and Skelmanthorpe.

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