Letters from Flanders published

Photo courtesy of Reginald Littlejohns

UK brass band publishers BrookWright have published my brass band test piece Letters from Flanders. The work is a deep and powerful exploration of my maternal grandfather’s experiences in the Flanders trenches in World War One, told through musical depictions of some of his letters home.

The first movement was premiered by Box Hill City band conducted by Matt van Emmerik in Melbourne. Daniel van Bergen conducted Booroondara Brass performing most of the work in April 2019, and Box Hill premiered the complete version in November 2019 conducted by Simon Brown.