Each year our team of conductors selects a range of music, ranging from brand new compositions to timeless arrangements. Throughout the week students rehearse the music in full band rehearsals and sectionals. There is also one piece selected to be rehearsed and played by the Band of the Wessex Band Summer School, where members of both the wind and brass bands join forces.
Recent selections include ‘Windows of the World’ by Peter Graham, as well ‘Cry of the Celts’ and ‘Hymn of the Highlands’ by Phillip Sparke.
2025 Repertoire
Training Band
- Lord of the Dance
- Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Coat
- Bring Him Home
- Shallow
- Odilia
- Glenn Miller in concert
- Encanto
- Disco lives
- 9 to 5
- Wicked
- Enter Sandman
- Washington Post
Brass Band
- March : Praise – Heaton
- Kingdom of Dragons – Harper
- Madrigalum – Sparke
- An American in Paris – Gershwin arr. Snell
- Andromeda – Price
- The Lord’s My Shepherd – Townend arr Sharman
- Balkan Sounds – Rydland
- Fanfare for the Common Man – ELP arr Leith
- Batman – Elfman arr Catherall
- March of the Cornish Knockers – Thomas
- Les Miserables – Michel & Schoenberg arr Somerset
- Irish Tune from County Derry – Grainger arr Wright
- Big Band Explosion – Fernie
- Mack the Knife – Weill arr Richards
- Queen Rules – Sykes
Wind Band
- Fracas – Standridge
- Pilatus Mountain of Dragons – Reineke
- The Cowboys – Williams
- Japanese Slumber Song – Wood
- Concert Prelude – Sparke
- A Moorside Suite – Holst
- The Great Locomotive Chase – Smith
- America – Bernstein arr Brown
- Fiesta – Bocci
- Cornish Through and Through – Richards
- Amazing Grace – Trad arr Hind
- Candide Overture – Bernstein
- Broadway Showstoppers – Barker
- Clog Dance – Herold
Finale
- Call of the Cossacks – Graham