Kingdom Celebrate at Scottish Festival of Brass
Kingdom Brass are celebrating a host of awards after the week long "Scottish Festival of Brass", held in Perth
Concert Hall from 24th November to 2nd December.
Kingdom Brass 'A' competed in the main event of the Festival, the Scottish Open Championships. After a fantastic
year where Kingdom's flagship senior band finished in the top three at all Scottish events, Kingdom 'A' had to be
content with the consolation of the runner up award in the chase for 'Scottish Championship Section Band of the Year'.
Conducted by Bede Williams, the band performed their own choice testpiece, Philip Sparke's 'Music of the Spheres' to
rapturous applause from the audience in Perth Concert Hall.
Two junior bands from the Kingdom Organisation also competed at the first weekend of the Festival. Kingdom's '16 & under'
band was conducted by Kenneth Blackwood and won the bronze award, while Kingdom's '14 & under' band were conducted by
Sarah Findlay and won the silver award. A fantastic achievement, especially in the younger age group where some of the
Kingdom players were as young as 8 years old.
A brand new event concluded the first weekend of the Festival, with the Kingdom Percussion Academy conducted by Lynsey
Paterson winning the silver award in the newly introduced percussion class.
Last weekend and it was the turn of Kingdom Brass 'B' to compete in the Scottish Challenge Cup. A fantastic performance
of their own choice testpiece, Peter Graham's 'Dimensions', won the contest, rounding off a brilliant debut year for the
new Kingdom 'B' Band. Conducted by Kenneth Blackwood, Kingdom 'B' also won the prize for best 4th Section Band, and
having been unbeaten in their section all year, they also took the title of 'Scottish 4th Section Band of the Year'.
Chairman of Kingdom 'B', Ian Green, said of the result "It's a great achievement for us to go all year unbeaten in Scotland.
We created the new 'B' band to give the oldest players from our youth band the chance to perform in a senior band, and
with such a young band we didn't expect to be so successful in our first year. We've got a great mix of youth and
experience in the band, and are looking forward to being promoted to section 3 for 2013."
added 2nd December 2012