FTBBSS.com is pleased to announce that Rob Richardson has join the tutor team for 2020

Rob Richardson has enjoyed a long career performing as 1st baritone with many of the UK’s foremost brass bands, including Fairey, Grimethorpe, YBS, Black Dyke, Fodens and Kirkintilloch. 

Rob has performed as a soloist and given masterclasses and tuition in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the USA and New Zealand and is committed to raising the profile of the baritone and to developing its repertoire further.  After spells teaching music and managing music departments in the UK and China, Rob now lives and works at Institut le Rosey, a boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland.

We are thrilled Rob has accepted to join the tutor team

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​The Fermanagh Tyrone Brass Band Summer School is committed to giving brass players the best educational experience possible. The course is welcoming, relaxed and we want to give everyone the chance to learn something whatever level they are at.

We have engaged top class tutors and soloists including tenor horn soloist Owen Farr, RTE Concert Orchestra’s Mick Marshall, Tredegar band’s Dewi Griffiths, Black Dyke’s Laura Conway and Swiss cornet star Kathleen Gaspoz in recent years. We are always looking to expand and develop the course and this year we will be at our new location with on-site accommodation. We are also delighted to welcome our first ever Guest Conductor.

A member of the Leyland Band under maestro Richard Evans (becoming principal cornet at the age of 17), Desford Colliery under James Watson and Principal Cornet with the Black Dyke Mills and Yorkshire Building Society Brass Band there is no doubt about this person’s musical and brass band experience. He took up the baton with Tredegar Town Band in 2008 and has led the band to the National Finals every year since.
He is also the only conductor ever to lead a band to victory at the Grand Shield and British Open in the same year with Tredegar’s memorable double in 2010.

He is currently Director of Brass Band Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire, in demand as a conductor and is Musical Director of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland. We are delighted to welcome Ian Porthouse as Guest Conductor on our 2020 FTBBSS Course.

🚨 | NEW VENUE

We are excited to announce that our brand new venue for FTBBSS.com 2020 is the Cleenish Centre, Bellanaleck.

This opens up onsite self catering accommodation for the duration of the course and will be available to book online very soon.. Stay Tuned!!

✅ Rehearsal room over looking Lough Erne
✅ Games room
✅ All rooms have separate En-Suite
✅ Self-catered
✅ Local shops walking distance

We are moving to a new venue for 2020 as we press forward towards an exciting future for Fermanagh/Tyrone Brass Band Summer School.

Stay tuned to find out where..

** NEW TUTOR CORNET **

We are pleased to announce the principal cornet of Tredegar Town Band Dewi Griffiths has accepted the invitation to join the FTBBSS.com tutor team 2019.

Dewi is currently considered to be one of the finest Principal Cornet Players of his generation. Dewi’s skills are sought after all over Europe as a player, with numerous visits to Norway, Austria and Holland playing with some of Europe’s finest Brass Bands at various contests

Tredegar Town Band are 2019 Welsh Champions

Dewi’s musical highlights include playing with the YBS Band at Sydney Opera House, and being part of the historic 2010 year with Tredegar, when they became the first band to hold the Grand Shield and the British Open titles simultaneously.

To find out more about Dewi, the tutor team and the course go to FTBBSS.com

Dates: Thursday 18th - Saturday 20th July
COURSE FEE : ONLY £25

** CHANGE OF TUTOR **

Due to unforeseen circumstances Kathleen Gaspoz is sadly unavailable for FTBBSS 2019. STAY TUNED to find out who her replacement is this week...😎