In Summer Term of 2022 we were pleased to be selected, alongside two other university brass bands, for the Unibrass Foundation’s inaugural Artist in Association scheme. We were partnered with Ryan Watkins, MD of Hepworth Band and former Principal Trombone at Fairey’s and Brighouse & Rastrick.
Ryan attended three of our rehearsals, helping our conductor Brandon Fletcher prepare the band for the project’s culmination: a joint concert with our friends York R.I. Band.
The project was supported by Arts Council England and the additional funding that this brought allowed us to hold the concert in the university’s premier venue, Central Hall.
Photographs courtesy of University of York Brass Band / York R.I. Band / Unibrass Foundation