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CONCERT BAND REHEARSALS FOR 2018 RESUME ON TUESDAY 30th JANUARY. New players are welcome to come along!
CONCERT BAND REHEARSALS ARE EVERY TUESDAY DURING SCHOOL TERMS AT 5.15 PM FOR MOUNTAINS YOUTH BAND AND 7.15 PM FOR ADULT BAND. VENUE: UNITING CHURCH HALL, LUCASVILLE RD, GLENBROOK.
2018 Rehearsal dates
TERM 1: 30th January to 10th April; TERM 2: 1st May to 3rd July
TERM 3: 24th July to 25th September; TERM 4: 16th October to 18th December
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From here you can learn all about the three bands. Have a look around.
Blue Mountains Concert Band and Mountains Youth Band always welcome new members - you don't have to be an experienced musician - just be able to read music and play scales. Come along to one of our rehearsals! For Jazz Ensemble enquiries, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Festival !
Our 26 November 2017 FESTIVAL concert at Springwood was a wonderful performance. The photo below is the band performing the spectacular African Symphony!
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Best of British concert - a jolly good show!!!
Saturday 5th August 2017 featuring Mosaic Muse
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Where Mountains Youth Band can take you.....
From community band to Sydney Youth Orchestra performers in Europe! The photo below shows James Pensini (SYO conductor), Owen Morris (trumpet soloist), Tyler Wilkinson and Matt Carter (orchestral trumpets) at the SYO's performance last week (April 2017) of Haydn's trumpet concerto at the spectacular and beautiful Esterhazy Palace in Austria. These four instrumentalists started their music careers as members of Mountains Youth Band. Congratulations! What a great experience! Photo credit Sydney Youth Orchestras and Fotolly. Matthew Carter, James Pensini, Owen Morris, Tyler Wilkinson
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LAST POST EXPERT MASTERCLASS
On Saturday 4th March 2017, BMCB and MYB trumpet players were treated to an expert Masterclass led by Owen Morris, Principal Trumpet of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Owen, a former MYB member, came to Glenbrook to tutor the trumpet players in performing the Last Post and Rouse which are played annually at Anzac Day services. This was a wonderful experience for all involved. Photography: Hannah Morris.
News from 2016
Screen Gems: a spectacular success!! Our concert on 19th November 2016 at Springwood Theatre was a great night, lots of fun and fabulous music. Thanks to everyone for your support. Mountains Youth Band and Blue Mountains Concert Band were outstanding and the cabaret duo Threepenny Moon were fantastic - just beautiful! All performers and compere Sonya in the stunning photo below, courtesy Greg Farmer.
St Finbars Church Chorus and Fanfare concert Sept 2016
CONGRATULATIONS MOUNTAINS YOUTH BAND THIRD PLACE IN 2016 NSW STATE BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS. PLACED FIRST IN THE CONTEST TEST PIECE, FABULOUS EFFORT IN A COMPETITIVE FIELD OF 12. WELL DONE!
Thanks to everyone who supported Blue Mountains Jazz Ensemble's recent Dance the Night Away. It was a great night.
What a wonderful concert we had on Saturday 31st October 2015 with our friends from Hawkesbury Nepean Valley Pipe Band. Thanks to all our friends and families for coming along and to our musical director Garry Clark for his fabulous leadership. Congratulations to everyone. Photos by Greg Farmer.
A GREAT JAZZ CONCERT on 12th Sept 2015 - congratulations on a great evening.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL for a wonderful combined concert spectacular featuring Blue Mountains Concert Band, Mountains Youth Band and Hills Music Academy, held at the Lighthouse Theatre, Orchard Hills on Sat 22nd August 2015. What a great show!
Congratulations to all our instrumentalists for a beautiful Concert of Classical and Sacred Music on 14th June 2015 at Glenbrook, featuring Blue Mountains Concert Band and Garry Clark, Michael Taylor (organ), Owen Morris (trumpet) and Rachael Johnson (soprano). Photography: Hannah Morris
Instrumentalists and guest performers at our Some Enchanted Evening concert 20 September 2014, Penrith. Photography courtesy Greg Farmer
WINNERS!!!! Mountains Youth Band was named OVERALL CHAMPION BAND in the Junior C section of the National Concert Band Championships at the Seymour Centre, Sydney on Saturday 4th April 2015. Congratulations all instrumentalists and our fabulous musical director Garry Clark.
