RNCM Wind Brass & Percussion Ensembles

Bringing you the best of small ensemble music as RNCM students, staff and visiting artists perform side-by-side in this lunchtime concert series, with tickets from just £2.50.

This lunchtime concert showcases the RNCM's School of Wind, Brass, and Percussion. A highlight of the afternoon features our staff and students performing Ruth Gipps’ Seascape. Scored for ten wind players, Gipps was inspired by the sounds of the sea in Kent and wrote it in 1958 for the Portia Ensemble, founded by Gipps herself and made up entirely of women. 

Richard Rodney Bennett Saxophone Quartet (first movement) 

Olias Saxophone Quartet:
Samuel Nutall soprano saxophone
Nicholas Rushworth alto saxophone
Frederic Donlon-Mansbridge tenor saxophone
Matthew Haworth baritone saxophone 

Jonathan Bates In Memoriam: This is the Place 

Rosamund Brass:
Seb Williman, Adam Hofland-Ward cornet
Georgia Woodhead tenor horn
Alex Barron euphonium 

Camille Saint-Saëns Adagio from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78 ‘Organ’ 

Liz Gilliver director
RNCM Marimba Ensemble 

Ruth Gipps Seascapes 

Kevin Gowland director/flute
RNCM Wind Ensemble 

Hector Berlioz Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust Op 24 

Murray Greig director
RNCM Symphonic Brass