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.
2023 Repertoire
Brass Band
- The Jaguar – Richards
- March Prelude – Gregson
- A Brief Symphony of Time – Dobson
- Carnival Overture – Dvorak arr. Newsome
- Kenilworth – Bliss
- The Witch of the Westmerlands – Fisher arr. Harper
- Mansions of the Lord – Wallace & Glennie-Smith arr. Baker
- Nightingale Dances – Hall
- Libertango – Piazolla arr. McElligot
- Walk Like an Egyptian – Sternberg arr. Harper
- Gaelforce – Graham
- Shine as the Light – Graham
- The Spirit of Brass – Somerset
- Brass Canon – Pachebel arr Harvey
- Cornish Cavalier – Moyle
- Nearer My God to Thee – arr. Somerset
- Apollo 13 – Horner arr. Barry
Wind Band
- Silent Movie Suite – Ellerby
- Pilatus Mountain of Dragons – Reineke
- An Irish Posy – Farnon
- Coronation March – Meyerbeer
- The March of the King’s Men – Plater
- The Bamboula – Coleridge Taylor
- West Side Story – Bernstein
- Hunting Polka – Strauss Jrr. arr. Lamb
- Glen Miller – arr. Rogers
- Candide Overture – Bernstein
- The Big Country – Moross
- Second Suite in F – Holst
- Klezmer Karnival – Sparke
- Choreography – Sheldon
- El Camino Real – Reed
Finale
- Windows of the World – Graham