Aussie scoops BBC Young Brass Soloist Title

[Roger Thorne]

20 year old Brendon Wheeler has just scooped the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist Final held at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.



Brenden Wheeler, an Australian, is currently studying music at the University of Salford in Manchester under David King. His achievements in the UK so far, include the Best Instrumentalist prize at the Scottish Open Brass Band Championships last November together with his success at tonights competition.

His chosen pieces for the final were ‘Flight to Sparta' from ‘Three Worlds' by Peter Meechan and ‘The Holy Well' by Peter Graham. Brendon is currently Solo Euphonium with the Hepworth Persimmon Band.

Congratulations to Brendon and the other three finalists (Vicki, Sophie and Nick) from everyone at The MouthPiece.com

[Mick]

Congratulations Brenden.
What more can we say except that you have made us very proud.
Well done mate

Mick, Kath, Mark & Sean.

P.S.
Members of Cairns Brass (where it all started) congratulate you as well.

[Seedhouse]

Once again tMP gets there before anywhere else on t'internet!!!

Just want to pass my congrats to Brenden, and all the other finalists.

To tMP member Vic, I think we'd all agree that she already is a star in the making and her time will come when she will win every single competition imaginable!!! Listening to her last night on LTTB, assured me of how fantastic a player she is, and at such a young age! It is clear that over future years she will grow into a great player, so hope she won't get down about not winning this competition (although she sounded VERY bouncy on the phone just now!!! ). I'm proud of how well you've done Vic, as i'm sure everyone else is and I salute you!
*Puts on shower cap in her honour!*

[Naomi McFadyen]

they all played etremly well.....
#Brenden, deserved to win... well done!!!!!!
All sounded fantastic.... was defo out of bren and vicki.......

had a great night,,,, xxx

[Nuke]

we all got strange lucks when we put on our shower caps like

It was a great concert and black dyke were very good aswell as the soloists.
Although what i have taken from tonight is never to give naruco four pints again.

[drummergurl]

we all got strange lucks when we put on our shower caps like

It was a great concert and black dyke were very good aswell as the soloists.
Although what i have taken from tonight is never to give naruco four pints again.

more like NEVER buy naruco ONE pint!!!

[2nd man down]

Well done Brendan, when I wrote my report on the recent Hepworth concert I said it would take something extra special to beat you tonight, I wasn't wrong!!

Congrats to all who took part, especially Vic, my l'ill heroine! One day she'll be the best there is.

[Craigsav83]

Well done to Brendan and to the other finalists.

I was gutted that I couldn't make it down to Manchester to hear these talented musicians.

[geordiecolin]

heheheh well done Brenden. I think i bought your uncle (or someone claiming to be) a pint in Scubar. Boc on. I was fairly mashed. Missed the performances was concentrating my efforts elsewhere, i.e Scubar. Boc on all!!

Colin

[Vickitorious]

WELL DONE BRENDAN!! You really deserved it!!! Twas an amazing performance stood out the back listening!!!

Last night was....


AMAZING!!!!!

AMAZING!!!!!

Hehehehe!!

The showercaps were amazingly funny!!! especially when craig went up to the bar in his! hahahahaha!!!! It was great!!!

Wow!!! Pictures will be on here soonly!!! Ooooh Yessssss!!!

Well done to Brendan again!! An to Sophie and Nick for putting up Brilliant performances as well!! Wooooooooo!!!!

Byeebyeeeeeee xx

[Keppler]

*Boing Boing*

Someone had a good time then. Well done all...
Kepps

[Naomi McFadyen]

more like NEVER buy naruco ONE pint!!!

ummm... you guys didn't exactly help by giving me 2 pints at the same time... forcing me to have to drink them quickly before they went warm and yuky



Can't wait to see the pictures... the showercaps were a hoot.... and was SO funny when Craig went to the bar in his!... LOL!!

[yonhee]

Looks like most of tmp got drunk...
Well done Brendan and Vicki

[Aidan]

never seen naomi as faced as that! quite entertaining!

Well done to everyone who played, all sounded really good (when you could hear them over the not-so gracious accompaniment )
Bren had the X-factor on the day, his one was the 'special' performance (and not in a mongy way)
We managed to make sure he didnt make it home anyway
Wonder if his uncle ended up with any more sofas or bikes in the front room in the morning

suprised you lasted the duration colin, you were rangooned before we even got to college bar, never mind scu!

[drummergurl]

never seen naomi as faced as that! quite entertaining!

yeah until your the one who is taking her home!!!!!!

i agree with the accompaniment thing though, it was hard to hear the soloist at times, not sure whether that is something to do with the hall though, because mr childs wasnt making any attempt at quietening the band abit so we could hear the soloist.

i remember from the youth band nationals last year that my mum thought the balance sounded wrong where she was sat, yet the adjudicators thought it was right. my mum is gunna sit as close to the adjudicators as she can next time to test this theory