Uckfield hosts world premiere
26th October 2024 at Holy Cross Church, Uckfield.
People from across the UK and beyond joined Uckfield Concert Brass for the world premiere performance on Saturday (26 October 2024) of a specially-written piece by the band’s adopted composer, Emily Hazrati.
Dawn, Wisdom was the outcome of a year’s collaboration between rising star Emily Hazrati and the band.
The performance attracted generous feedback. Musical director, Nick Morris, congratulated the players:
“Great commitment through the whole concert. Dawn Wisdom was given a great premiere.”
Former player, George Ball, said afterwards:
“I believe that the band as a whole gave the very best concert I have heard. So much thought , preparation, dedication must have gone into the whole thing and everyone should be so very proud.”
Emily has written for opera, choirs, orchestras and chamber groups. But Dawn, Wisdom was her first piece written for a brass band.
She said it was inspired by Uckfield’s origins and the surrounding Sussex landscape:
“The word Uckfield roughly translates to ‘open land of a man called Ucca’: an Old English pet version of the Anglo-Saxon name Uhtraed, meaning dawn-wisdom. As well as forming the work’s title, for me these words conjured the image of the sun rising in a distant past. I began to compose fragments of music inspired by this vision and share these with the players of Uckfield Concert Brass through a series of workshops, using their music and text responses to inform how I would expand my sketches.”
The finished piece has three movements imagining dawn over Uckfield’s surrounding hills and valleys.
Saturday’s concert also featured music from some of the world’s leading brass band composers. The pieces spanned more than four centuries, exploring the ideas of time and space.
The band took advantage of the wonderful acoustics of Uckfield’s Holy Cross Church, with players performing from the balconies, the pulpit and either side of the nave.
Uckfield Concert Brass thanks all who attended the concert, our friends who joined us in the performance, Holy Cross Church and Making Music for its Adopt a Music Creator scheme. This is run in partnership with Sound and Music, funded by PRS Foundation and the Dorothy Green Music Trust.
Concert programme
- Canzon Noni Toni Giovanni Gabrieli
- March from A Moorside Suite Gustav Holst
- Horizons Paul Lovatt-Cooper
- Here, There and Everywhere Paul McCartney, arr Tony Jagger, soloist Claire Nichols
- Doyen Goff Richards
- Serenade Derek Bourgeois
- Dawn, Wisdom Emily Hazrati
- INTERVAL
- March Prelude Edward Gregson
- Dimensions Peter Graham
- Jeanie with the light brown hair Stephen Foster, arr Elgar Howarth, soloist Paul Labus
- Rings of Saturn Philip Harper, soloists Dean Pelling, Karen Packer and Claire Nichols
- Starburst Dan Price
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