As a UK based composer, why are the newly crowned Australian Champions – Waitakere – premiering many of your works in New Zealand next month?
I have 13 new premiers in Auckland on June 8th, by the top band in New Zealand and recent Australian Champions, “Waitakere City Trusts Brass”. Their principal conductor Andy Snell (ex BT Grimethorpe) is the instigator of the whole project. The concert will also sport an appearance from the Principal Cornet of Grimethorpe, Richard Marshall in a premier performance of my new cornet concerto. Disappointed that bands from the UK weren’t so interested in the material I was massing, it was Andrew Snell who came up with an offer I could not refuse after promising offers from bands in Australia, Canada and North America. Waitakere are also using my new test piece “Gregoritas” as own choice in the NZ championships shortly after the premier in the concert on the 8th. I’m very excited. Tell us a little more about “Gregoritas”. I decided to write a test piece for championship section (having written works for all other levels of banding), I spent around nine months on and off, working on a piece I
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