Woodwind & Brass Competitions

Woodwind – 4:30 pm Thursday 9 May 2024 – Adjudicator: Ian Mitchell

Players of the following instruments may enter the woodwind competitions – flute, piccolo, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, saxophone or recorder. New for this year, there is a duet class for two woodwind instruments. Recorder players may prefer to enter one of the specialist recorder competitions.

Brass – 4:30 pm Tuesday 7 May 2024 – Adjudicator: Mark Armstrong

Players of the following instruments may enter the brass competitions – trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba, euphonium or horn.

Competition Guidelines

The Closing Date for the woodwind and brass competitions is Friday 22 March 2024.

Entrants are reminded to introduce themselves and the piece(s) they are playing and to wear dress appropriate for a performance.

Pieces may not be repeated in different competitions.

Entrants must provide the Adjudicator with a clean copy of the music for each work to be performed.

If an entrant has been a pupil of the Adjudicator in the year prior to the Festival or is well-known to the Adjudicator, they should contact the Section Administrator before entering.

For full details, see the 2024 Woodwind, Brass & Recorder Syllabus via the link to the right or below.

Entering a class

Please click on the link below for how to apply and for hints on creating an effective video performance. The first time that you use the entry system, you will need to register. Entrants must also upload copies of the music.

Section Administrator

Rosemary Cook

40 Prospect Road
Barnet
Herts.
EN5 5AD

Tel: 07966 934186

Email: enquiriesnlf@outlook.com

Adjudicators

Mark Armstrong

Ian Mitchell

Ian Mitchell studied clarinet with John Maclean (principal clarinet with the Carl Rosa Opera Company), and with Alan Hacker at the Royal Academy of Music. After leaving he read Music at Goldsmiths College, London University. He has had many pieces written for him and has championed the use of the bass clarinet in solo and chamber music. His recording of solo bass clarinet music (the first by a British artist) released on Black Box was awarded the top accolade in BBC Music Magazine. He has toured his own realisation of Stockhausen’s Little Harlequin for dancing clarinettist. There have been solo appearances throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, the USA, Taiwan, Japan and North Korea (the first – and only – British clarinettist to appear there!). His CD of American clarinet music was awarded second prize in the USA’s ‘The American Prize’. Ian Mitchell has appeared with the London Sinfonietta, The Monteverdi Orchestra, Fires of London, AMM, Dreamtiger, Michael Nyman Band, Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Critical Band and others. He is director of the chamber ensemble Gemini, a member of the Albanian folk band Liria and is a regular improviser, particularly with clarinettist and artist Dave Ryan in the MitchellRyan Duo. He was a lecturer at the University of Exeter 1996-2007, and Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance from 2007-2014. He was appointed ARAM in 1995, HonTCL in 2006 and FTL in 2015 for services to Music.

Syllabus

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