BIG SOUND OF BRASS: Trombonist Andrew Yorkstone brought the sound of brass to the Gisborne International Music Competition yesterday. Pictures by Liam Clayton
TWO trumpets and two trombones will raise the rafters with the sound of brass at a lunchtime concert tomorrow.
In Gisborne to compete for the Edgar Brass Player Award at the Gisborne International Music Competition (GIMC), are trumpeters Patrick Macaskill-Webb and Toby Pringle, and trombonists Andrew Yorkstone and Dale Vail.
As part of the competitors’ day of community engagement activities, the brass players will be guest musicians at a St Andrew’s Church Lunchtime Concert Series performance.
Now in his third year of trumpet performance study, Macaskill-Webb’s classical and jazz selections for his competition performance include Debussy’s 1913 work Syrinx, a work originally composed for flute, and Piazzolla’s soulful Cafe 1930.
A second-year classical trumpet performance student, Pringle’s competition repertoire includes three trumpet concertos and Honegger’s 1947 Intrada. Of possible interest to Gisborne readers, Honegger composed a symphonic movement called Rugby in 1928, the same year the All Blacks toured South Africa.
Royal New Zealand Air Force Band trombonist Yorkstone has included Enrique Crespo’s Improvisation No 1, and Henri Tomais’s Concerto for Trombone for his competition performance. Having won the Edgar Brass Player Award twice at the GIMC, Vail is aiming for a third with selections such as his own work Romance for Trombone and Piano, and New Zealand composer Ken Young’s Panic!
