Norfolk Brass (formerly Matthews Norfolk Brass) is a registered charity and enjoys the reputation of being one of the most consistent high standard Brass bands in the East Anglian area.
The band's professional conductor is David Stowell who studied at the Royal Military School of Music and continued his career as a professional musician in the UK. He has appeared with several leading Orchestras and Brass bands including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Black Dyke Mills Band, Kennedy Swinton, Brighouse & Rastrick and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
Under David’s direction, the 2009 contesting season for Norfolk Brass has resulted in the band being promoted to national championship section after becoming the London and Southern counties first section champions in March this year and then going on to achieve third place in the National brass band championships of Great Britain.
The band actively promotes the education of music to young people and its ensemble includes young players to enable them to progress careers in music. The band has achieved the satisfaction of sending at least four members going on to become members of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britian.
By an agreement between the band and Norfolk County Council schools, the band's percussion equipment is made available daily to a number of young players training to be percussionists at school under the direction of Ian Chopping, a peripatetic teacher and the band's lead percussionist. The band also has a young person trust and makes an award to a young band member each year when funds permit.
The band plays various concerts primarily in and around Norfolk. Our repertoire is wide and varied and spans the popular, light classical, operatic and film genres.
We are indebted to the joint primary sponsors of Norfolk Brass - Targetfollow plc and the Greyhound Inn, Hickling. Without their support at the beginning of 2009, as one of East Anglia’s leading Championship Section bands, we would not have been able to have continued after sponsorship from Bernard Matthews Foods was withdrawn.
Norfolk Brass (Formerly Matthews Norfolk Brass) is a registered charity and enjoys the reputation of being one of the most consistent high standard Brass bands in the East Anglian area.
The bands professional conductor is David Stowell who studied at the Royal Military School of Music and continued his career as a professional musician in the UK with his first major concert being the premiere of a new work by Sir Edmund Rubbra with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen. He has appeared with several leading Orchestras and Brass bands including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Black Dyke Mills band, Kennedy Swinton, Brighouse & Rastrick and Grimethorpe. David is now working on a score for a major new motion picture currently in production at Elstree Studios.
Under David’s direction, the 2009 contesting season for Norfolk Brass has resulted in the band being promoted to national championship section after becoming the London and Southern counties first section champions in March this year and then going on to achieve third place in the National brass band championships of Great Britain.
The band actively promotes the education of music to young people and its ensemble includes young players to enable them to progress careers in music. The band has achieved the satisfaction of sending at least four members going on to become members of the National Youth Brass band.
By an agreement between the band and Norfolk County Council schools, the bands percussion equipment is made available daily to a number of young players training to be percussionists at school under the direction of Ian Chopping, a peripatetic teacher and the bands lead percussionist.
The band also has a young person trust and makes an award to a young band member each year when funds permit.
