Glebe Symphonic Winds

2011: A good year

Paul — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:33:21 +0000

2011 was a pretty good year for Glebe Symphonic Winds, a trip up to Glasgow to win a Platinum award in the National Concert Band Festival finals, over £5,000 raised for 2 important charities, a fantastic concert at Victoria Hall in Stoke in front of a very appreciative audience and a performance with one of the World’s leading Euphonium soloists, Dave Thornton. We’re looking forward to having as good a year in 2012 with lots of projects planned, keep an eye on the website for news of what we’ve got planned.

Stage & Screen Spectacular

Paul — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:49:26 +0000

Have you got your ticket yet?

We would love to see as many of you there as possible this Saturday, June 11th 2011. Tickets are still available for the concert from the Victoria Hall website. It will be a great evening’s entertainment all in a great cause.

All proceeds from tickets sales for this event will be donated to Cancer Research UK and The Donna Louise Trust.

Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading charity dedicated to beating cancer through research. Their aim is to save lives from cancer, working in the areas where they can make the most impact including funding research, providing information for patients, families and health professionals, and en-devouring to keep cancer at the top of the health agenda.

The Donna Louise Trust runs a comprehensive children’s hospice service within Staffordshire and South Cheshire for the core purpose of providing respite and end of life care for children with life threatening conditions. The charity takes its name from a young girl Donna Louise Hackney who sadly died from a life threatening condition at the age of 16.

NCBF Finals 2011

Paul — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:32:04 +0000

We are delighted to announce that Glebe Symphonic Winds have just been awarded a Platinum award in the open section, National final at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Full report to follow.…

Platinum at Warrington

Paul — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:36:54 +0000

Sunday the 21st November 2010 saw Glebe Symphonic Winds travel up to Great Sankey High School in Warrington to perform in the National concert band festival, this was just the regional stage of the event. We performed in the Open category which NCBF describe as ‘The premier wind band class’. Bands are given awards to show what standard their performance was, the highest of which used to be Gold but it is now possible to get a Platinum award. A gold or platinum award would have seen us get the chance to travel up to Glasgow for the National finals of the festival.

The band played fantastically and the adjudicators of Colin Touchin & Guy Woolfenden were impressed enough to award us a Platinum award so it’s off to Glasgow we go to see if we can repeat the success we had in Cardiff at the finals 2 years ago!

Gold award for Glebe

Paul — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:33:14 +0000

After success in the regional festival of the National Concert Band Festival (NCBF) we were invited to go to the finals on the 18th April 2009, this year held at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Wales.

We were awarded a Gold award in the open section of the festival. Judges Simone Rebello, one of the UK’s leading percussionists, and John Reynolds, Head of Woodwind Studies at the Welsh College of Music and Drama were impressed by the band’s programme and performance commenting that we were “a band really worth listening to”. Our programme consisted of 3 pieces opening with Madrigalum by Philip Sparke, followed by Cat Skills from East Coast Pictures by Nigel Hess and we concluded with Dawn Flight by Philip Wilby.

The NCBF festival allows over 5,000 musicians from the UK to participate in a range of regional heats, all with the aim of reaching the NCBF Final, this year held on 18th and 19th April in Cardiff.