A4 Brass – Manchester Midday Music

A lunchtime concert by A4 Brass featuring a varied programme for brass quartet, performed by principal players from leading UK brass bands.

A4 Brass – Manchester Midday Music

Date: Friday 13 November 2026

Auditorium doors: 12.45pm
Concert start: 1.00pm
Finish: 1.50pm

A4 Brass Quartet comprises principal players from some of the UK’s top brass bands. The quartet performs lyrical and high-octane works, offering a distinctive chamber-music sound with cornet/flugelhorn, tenor horn, baritone horn and euphonium.

Performers:
Jamie Smith (cornet/flugelhorn)
Jonathan Bates (tenor horn)
Mike Cavanagh (baritone horn)
Chris Robertson (euphonium)

Programme includes:

• Strauss – Festmusik der Stadt Wien
• Mozart – Overture, The Marriage of Figaro
• Doss – Moskito
• Vaughan-Williams – English Folk Song Suite
• Bruckner – Locus Iste
• Gregson – Brass Quartet No. 2
• Grainger – Molly on the Shore
• Gounod – Finale from Faust

Sponsored by Alison Wilkinson.