Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

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Members

Conductors

• Elgar Howarth
  Elgar Howarth
  
  Elgar Howarth is an English conducting and composer.Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music , where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and the pianist John Ogdon....
  
• John Iveson

Trumpet

• Philip Jones
  Philip Jones
  
  Philip Jones CBE was a United Kingdom trumpeter and leader of an internationally famous brass chamber music ensemble.Philip Jones was born in Bath, Somerset, England....
  
• Elgar Howarth
  Elgar Howarth
  
  Elgar Howarth is an English conducting and composer.Howarth was educated in the 1950s at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music , where his fellow students included the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and the pianist John Ogdon....
  
• John Wilbraham
• Michael Laird
• Howard Snell
• Norman Archibald
• Lawrence Evans
• Graham Whiting
• Peter Reeve
• John Wallace
• James Watson
  James Watson (trumpeter)
  
  Professor James Watson FRAM has held principal trumpet posts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House and London Sinfonietta. International chamber music work has included the Nash Ensemble and leading the world-famous Philip Jones Brass Ensemble....
  
• Maurice Murphy
  Maurice Murphy
  
  Maurice Murphy is a United Kingdom musician, and was Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1977 to 2007.He was born in Hammersmith in 1935....
  
• Stanley Woods
• William Houghton
• Paul Archibald
• Harry Dilley
• Joseph Atkins
• Nigel Gomm
• John Miller
• Rod Franks
• Graham Ashton
• Crispian Steele Perkins

French Horn

• Ifor James
  Ifor James
  
  Professor Ifor James was a horn player and teacher, numbering among his pupils many future Principal Horns and horn professors at British music schools....
  
• Anthony Randall
• John Pigneguy
• James Buck
• Julian Baker
• Anthony Chidell
• Christian Rutherford
• Frank Ryecroft
• Patrick Steevens
• Frank Lloyd
  Frank Lloyd (horn player)
  
  Frank Lloyd is a virtuoso horn player and teacher, Professor of Horn at the Folkwang Academy in Essen and formerly professor of horn at both the Guldhall and Trinity in London....
  
• James Handy

Trombone

• Raymond Premru
  Raymond Premru
  
  Raymond Eugene Premru was an American trombonist, composer, and music teacher, who was based for most of his career in London, England. His work on the bass trombone was widely admired, and is preserved on innumerable recordings in diverse genres; his teaching influenced many leading trombonists; and his compositions were performed by lead...
  
• Peter Bassano
• Raymond Brown
• Roger Brenner
• John Iveson
• Harold Nash
• David Purser
• Eric Crees
  Eric Crees
  
  Eric Crees was appointed Principal Trombone of the Royal Opera House in 2000. Before that he spent twenty-seven years at the London Symphony Orchestra, twenty as Co-Principal Trombone....
  
• Denis Wick
  Denis Wick
  
  Denis Wick is United Kingdom's most influential orchestral trombonist of the 20th century. He is also an internationally respected brass instrument teacher and designer of brass mutes and mouthpieces....
  
• Peter Gane
• Peter Harvey
• David Moore
• Derek James
• Colin Sheen
• Stephen Saunders
• David Stewart
• Roger Harvey
• Christopher Mowat
• Michael Hext
  Michael Hext
  
  Michael Hext is a trombonist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.In 1978, at the age of 17, he became the first ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition....
  
• Lindsay Shilling
  Lindsay Shilling
  
  Lindsay Shilling is Principal Trombone at the Royal Opera House alongside Eric Crees. Prior to his appointment in 2005 he was Principal Trombone at the London Philharmonic Orchestra for seven years and Sub-Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra for the 1994/5 season....
  

Tuba

• John Fletcher
  John Fletcher (tubist)
  
  John Fletcher was an English tuba player. He began his career as a horn player, but switched to the tuba upon his graduation from studying Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge....
  
• John Jenkins
• James Gourlay
  James Gourlay
  
  James Gourlay is a United Kingdom Conductor and internationally renowned tuba soloist.He was born in Scotland and began to play in his local brass band at an early age....
  
• James Anderson

Percussion

• James Holland
• Alan Cumberland
• David Corkhill
• Carry Kettel
• Michael Skinner
• Norman Taylor
• Stephen Henderson
• David Johnson
• Robert Howarth

Discography

• 1965: The Glory of Venice
• 1965: Brass (no. 3 in Families of Orchestra series)
• 1968: Voices and Brass
• 1968: Glad Tidings
• 1969: Henze: Essay on Pigs
• 1969: Strings and Brass
• 1970: Brass now and then
• 1970: Music for the Kings and Queens of England
• 1970: Just Brass
• 1970: Atom Heart Mother
  Atom Heart Mother
  
  Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 progressive rock album by Pink Floyd, engineered by Alan Parsons and Peter Bown. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, and reached number 1 in the United Kingdom, and number 55 in the United States charts, and went RIAA certification in the U.S....
   (Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  )
• 1970: Schutz: The Christmas Story (Motets for Double Choir)
• 1971: Henze: The tedious Way of the Place of Natasha Ungeheuer
• 1972: Christmas in Venice
• 1972: Robert Suter
• 1972: Hymns for all Season
• 1972: Justin Connolly
  Justin Connolly
  
  Justin Connolly is a British composer and teacher.He was educated at Westminster School, and then briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before deciding on a career in music....
   (Cinquepaces)
• 1972: Classics for Brass
• 1973: Bruckner Mass in E-Minor
• 1974: Monteverdi: Vespers (1610)
• 1974: Golden Brass
• 1974: Gustav Holst: Choral Music
• 1974: The Art of Toru Takemitsu
• 1974: The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble plays
• 1974: Stravinsky
• 1975: PJBE in Switzerland
• 1975: Renaissance Brass
• 1975: Purcell
• 1976: Divertimento
• 1976: Carols for Choirs
• 1976: Fanfare
• 1977: Anthony Payne: Phoenix Mass
• 1977: Pictures at an Exhibition
• 1978: Barouque Brass
• 1978: Easy Winners
• 1979: Modern Brass
• 1979: Festive Brass
• 1979: Romantic Brass
• 1980: Bach Choir Family Carols
• 1980: Langlais: Mass
• 1980: La Battaglia
• 1980: Hindemith: Concert Music
• 1981: Focus on PJBE
• 1981: Tug of War – Paul McCartney
• 1981: Toccata and Fugue
• 1981: Handel
• 1982: Noel/Christmas Brass
• 1982: The Gabrielis in Venice
• 1982: Celebration
• 1982: John Paul II. the Pilgrim Pope
• 1983: PJBE French Collection
• 1983: Sousa Marches (Philip Jones Wind Ensemble)
• 1983: Gloria – Sacred Music of John Rutter
• 1983: I was glad
• 1984: Brass at Walhalla
• 1984: Musik in der Kartause Ittingen
• 1984: Give my Regards to Broad Street
• 1985: Lollipops
• 1985: International Marches
• 1985: West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  
• 1986: Gabrieli
• 1986: Renaissance and Baroque Music
• 1986: PJBE Finale
• Greensleves
• British Music for Brass
• Baroque Brass
• Festliche Trompetenmusik
• Renaissance Concert
• Music of the Courts of Europe
• Great Marches
• French Concert
• Encores
• Baroque Concert
• The Glory of Venice (with Kings College Chor)
• PJBE Edition
• Stereo Laboratory: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
• Weekend Brass: Trumpet Voluntary
• Greatest Hits
• The 20th Century Album
• PJBE Live
• PJBE Live 2 (Pictures at an Exhibition)

Sources

• McDonald, Donna: The Odyssey of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble ISBN: 2880390060

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