Onyx Noir

Onyx NoirRelease Date: 18 May 2018 Amos Miller writes 'The release of this album marks the 25th anniversary of Onyx Brass. During this period, we have premiered around 200 new works, and believe that new music is utterly essential both for the development of brass chamber music and to the wider survival and success of classical music. In 1994, I was a participant in the Banff International Jazz Summer School, where one of the tutors was Kenny Wheeler. I was

The Apollinaire Choruses were recorded at St Edmunds Church

with Helen Wallace writing in the liner notes that

the museum’s Energy Hall

happy minimalism' Sunday Times

boldly realised"

the First Britten Award for Composition

and in 2012 he made a large-scale performance taking place on and around a German ice rink

The performances sparkle with character' Financial Times

The poem ‘Keep your eyes open’ by John Berryman is married with poems by Robert Browning

The works display Birtwistle's distinctive and forceful voice and range in mood from austere introspective journeying to moments of unbearable intensity

an angel reads my open book

however during the 1930s Imogen heard Berg's Wozzeck in Vienna