Orchestral Zone


Peter Pollard
December 19, 2008, 9:46 am
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Peter Pollard

With 40 years working in the music industry worldwide, his knowledge and experience stocks a comprehensive music store, the one stop shop for instrument advice, repairs, new and second-hand sales. Peter’s apprenticeships with some of the world’s leading craftsmen in Britain, the United States and Canada, have given him a thorough working knowledge of acoustical engineering and instrumental design creating a unique understanding of the instrumental needs of wind musicians. No longer will instrumental connoisseurs have to go to London when choosing and maintaining an instrument, when all their needs can be met in Manchester.

A true Artisan, Peter has been fine tuning brass and woodwind instruments for musicians of the leading ensembles and institutions for many years, the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds College of Music and passing on his expertise in instrumental academy seminars in Scandinavia and Europe.

A UK Brass specialist, Peter’s skills have led to a growing demand for his custom range of brass design and parts, trumpets, flugels, cornets, bespoke lead pipes, bells, cork parts and mouthpieces. An exponent of 5 Star spa treatments for trumpets, a Pollard MOT involves deep freeze Cryogenic resonance restoration, ultrasonic cleaning, valve alignment and the application of his own patented valve oil ‘Superfly’ with a unique cleaning agent to ensure agile acrobatics when playing. ‘Superfly’ has now been licensed for distribution in the United States and Europe. Peter is the figure driving the sponsorship masterclasses and live music in the North West ,attracting stars such as Bobby Shew, Snake Davis, Ian Bousfield, Jigs Wigham and Peter King, the Comedy Store, Liverpool’s the Cavern Club,Cinnamon Club,Matt & Phreds, and the Hallé, breath of fresh air for the region’s live-music industry.

peter.pollard@dolphinmusic.co.uk

pollardtrumpets@hotmail.com

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Boston Brass in Concert at RNCM
October 3, 2008, 1:29 pm
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Jose Sibaja trumpet

Jeff Conner trumpet

J D Shaw french horn

Lance Laduke trombone, euphonium

Andrew Hitz tuba

From exciting classical arrangements to breath-taking vocal harmony and burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance, treating audiences to a captivating musical experience for all ages in this, their only appearance in Manchester.

Date & Time – Tuesday 7 October 2008 7.30pm

Venue – Haden Freeman Concert Hall

Ticket Price – £16, £14

Concessions – Concessions Available

More powerful than a speeding locomotive!!!”

Boston, Massachusetts
United States

About Boston Brass
Boston Brass is setting new standards in entertainment. From exciting classical arrangements, to breathtaking vocal harmony, to burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance while treating audiences to a unique musical experience that captivates all ages. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, bridges the vast ocean of classical formality to delight audiences to an evening of boisterous fun, exciting knowledge and an enthusiastic love of music, deftly exhibited by five brash brass players. Boston Brass has transcended the traditional mores of brass ensemble literature and, with a host of original arrangements, has pioneered a new generation of music that sets out to achieve one simple goal: entertain at all costs with blistering precision. Whether they are performing solo or with a symphony orchestra, the fun and emotion exhibited from this group is uniquely infectious and keeps audiences on their feet, demanding encore after encore. Performing over 100 concerts annually, the members of Boston Brass have dazzled audiences at concerts and jazz festivals around the world in such cities as Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Macau, New York, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Antonio, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. As committed to education as they are to performance, they have conducted master classes at colleges and universities around the country including The Eastman School of Music, Rice University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, University of North Carolina, University of Florida, University of North Texas, Boston University, Yale University, University of Michigan and U.C.L.A. Boston Brass has also conducted clinics and concerts at national and regional music educational conferences in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, South Carolina, Ohio and Texas. Boston Brass helped raise over $100,000 for VH1?s Save the Music program, giving musical instruments to schools in need. Boston Brass has been featured educators and performers at the Mid West Band and Orchestra Conference, American Bandmaster Association Conference in Gainesville, FL, Southern Oregon University?s American Band College in Ashland, OR, and at the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention in San Antonio, TX. In October 2006 Boston Brass became Artist/Educational Ambassadors for Jupiter Band Instruments. During the 2005 season Boston Brass made their debut appearances in the Far East, with an eight city concert tour of Taiwan, and as featured guest ensemble at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) 2005 conference in Singapore. They also much acclaimed concert appearances in Hong Kong and Macau. In December 2005 Boston Brass made their debut tour of Japan with an eight city tour. Boston Brass has been featured on The CBS Morning Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, The Great American Brass Band Festival and has recorded several ground breaking, extraordinary, delightful albums. Two of these albums appear on the Summit Records label: Stealing the Show, a collection of overtures and arias, and Young Fogeys, a collage of jazz and swing favorites. The ensemble?s latest release on the Loft Recordings label entitled Out of This World, features heroic music for brass and organ. Along with Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral organist J. Melvin Butler, the band explores symphonic textures from all eras of music and even includes a commission from Hollywood composer Bruce Edward Miller entitled Pluto: The Last Planet. The summer of 2000 proved to be an exciting time as Boston Brass teamed up with the legendary jazz recording genius Rudy van Gelder to produce Ya Gotta Try. This collaboration, which features music from Horace Silver, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and many others, further explores the innovative jazz styles that have propelled Boston Brass to the forefront of their genre. The 2003 release of Within Earshot features classical pieces by Shostakovich, Ginastera, Dvorak, Liszt and others. In that same year, Boston Brass collaborated with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble for a new recording of Christmas classics titled Christmas Bells are Swingin?, which was released in 2004 and featured many of the most beloved tunes of the holiday season. In winter 2005, the Boston Brass All-Stars Big Band was born when the five members of the ensemble were joined by twelve other well known brass players and musicians to record A Stan Kenton Christmas. This recording of holiday music, conducted by brass master Sam Pilafian, features truly phenomenal charts made popular by the Stan Kenton Orchestra and performed with the enormously powerful sound of thirteen horns and jazz rhythm section. Boston Brass and the Brass All-Stars Big Band will begin touring “A Stan Kenton Christmas” in December 2006 and future holiday seasons.
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