Symphonic Wind Band Course
Directed by Guy Woolfenden OBE
Monday 11th – Saturday 16th August
We are pleased to announce the return of the Internationally renowned composer, conductor Guy Woolfenden OBE to conduct the Symphonic Wind Band Course. Applications are warmly invited from brass, woodwind or percussion players to join the Symphonic Wind Band. A popular and varied selection of music will be carefully selected for the week’s course and a concert will be held on the Friday evening for family and friends.
This advanced course will have musicians from all over the UK and principal seats are by audition only. It is a fantastic course for those musicians who want to experience wind band music at its best and to play alongside other musicians of a similar standard. It will give you the opportunity to perform new and challenging works.
A welcome meeting will begin at 10.00am on Monday 11th August and rehearsals will commence at 11.00am. A detailed schedule will be given on arrival at the course.
Guy Woolfenden OBE
Guy Woolfenden has conducted concerts with many of the major British symphony and chamber orchestra, and his imaginative programmes are highly regarded. He enjoys a close association with many composers and has conducted an impressive number of first performances.His theatrical flair finds its natural outlet in opera, and his credits include three productions with Scottish Opera and, in London, the first British productions of Nielsen’s Saul and David, Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans and Liszt’s Don Sanche.
In collaboration with choreographer Andre Prokovsky, he has arranged the music for four full-length ballets. which he has subsequently conducted in productions with Australian Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Hong Kong Ballet Company, Scottish Ballet and Asami Mki Ballet,Tokyo. He conducted the acclaimed Russian premiere of Anna Karenina with The Kirov Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1993.
With around 150 scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company and an impressive list of credits with major European theatre companies, including the Comedie-Francais, Paris, the Burgtheater, Vienna, the Teatro Stabile, Genoa and the Norwegian National Theatre, Oslo. Guy Woolfenden’s theatre music is highly regarded throughout the world and has earned him an OBE for services to music in 2007.