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Stars and Sparks: Tredegar Band at the 2026 RNCM International Brass Band Festival Tredegar's RNCM International Brass Band Festival featured showstopping new works, a virtuosic concerto and an absolute classic from the pen of the festivals featured composer, Philip Sparke. A Spark Forgotten by Tamsin Crook An exciting, driven work composed by a Tamsin Crook, a 17 year old, talented cornet player from Penrith. A great timpani feature followed, before an impressive solo offer

Under the baton of Musical Director, Stig Mærsk, Concord Brass Band offered an exciting programme featuring a standout trombone solo and emotive feature for brass band and organ.

Fanfare of Bells by Hermann Pallhuber Originally written in 2012 for the 3BA Band in Germany, this work was (in the words of the composer was written as a ‘Tribute to the wonderful sound of brass instruments, that blend together to create the most subtle sonorities: bells as a symbol of the beauty of the instruments’. Fitting that this work was chosen to open the weekend’s event with it’s joyous, celebratory nature. It’s an exciting concert opener with it’s determined, syncop