Further
Information
Horns Aloud
is a prize-winning ensemble formed at Trinity College of
Music in 2002 after a suggestion by the then horn
professor, Jeff Bryant. Since winning the college’s Chamber
Music Prize in 2003, the group has become fully
professional and the founding three members - John Davy,
Jamie Thomas and Marc Woodhurst - were joined by Jocelyn
Lightfoot in 2005. The group has been committed to new
music since its inception, performing new, original
works for quartet by British composers in each programme.
The ensemble has performed across the country at events
such as the St. Endellion, Dartington and Windsor
festivals. Most recently, Horns Aloud have performed in
innovative afternoon-long performances for Colourscape.
These collaborations with Martin Mayes include standard
quartet repertoire, Alphorns and free improvisation
techniques around and throughout the venue. The quartet
have twice been short-listed as Park Lane Group selected
artists, through which they played at the Barbican’s Mostly
Mozart festival and were invited to perform at the
Southbank at the close of the Park Lane Group's Young
Artist Series in 2009. In October, the group will be
playing Maxwell Davies’
Fanfare – Salute to Dennis Brain
in the foyer of the Royal Festival Hall. This will be the
opening fanfare to herald in a string quartet series in
which the complete series of 10 Naxos Quartets will be
played to celebrate the composer’s 75th
birthday year. Horns Aloud are also very excited about
their work with Cecilia McDowall on the premiere of her new
work for Horn Quartet,
Distance and Moon.
Other projects include further concerts in the Midlands, a
recording of works for horn by Gordon Carr
and a tour to Turin next March.
