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Shane Brennan

Trumpet

www.shane-brennan.com

Orchestral

Professional

  • Britten Sinfonia - principal
  • English Baroque Soloists
  • London Mozart Players - principal
  • London Theatre Orchestra - principal
  • Symphony Orchestra of India
  • London Concert Orchestra 
  • Brandenburg Sinfonia
  • British Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Arts Symphonic
  • Orpheus Sinfonia - principal

Training

  • Young Musician’s Symphony Orchestra - co-principal
  • RCM Symphony Orchestra (including live broadcast on Radio 3) Sinfonietta Baroque Orchestra - Principal

Chamber

  • Triumph Brass Quintet - Founder member (2008 - Present)
  • Concentus Brass Ensemble - Founder member (2012 - Present)
  • Octandre Ensemble
  • Zone One Brass Band - soprano cornet.  Featured soloist, performing at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall
  • RCM Big Band - lead trumpet
  • London Banqueting Ensemble

Recording

  • Sessions - Buick Productions Ltd and Hilary Skewes & Co.
  • Studio recording sessions with composer Virginia Samuel
  • Recording with Sir David Willcocks at King’s College, Cambridge to commemorate his 90th birthday
  • Recordings for BBC Radio and Television, ITV, Capital Radio, Universal Studios

Pop & Shows

  • Russell Watson ‘La Voce’ Tour
  • Tours with ‘Brass Monkey’
  • ‘The Hoosiers’ - Live performance on Capital Radio
  • ‘Leon Jackson’ - Live performance on BBC Children In Need  •  Video recording for single Creative
  • 40th anniversary of the Libyan Jamahiriya - performing for 60 world leaders
  • George Gershwin’s musical - ‘Crazy For You’ at the London Palladium - principal
  • West Side Story - Professional West-End tours to Cyprus and Jersey
  • European tour with ‘The WestEnders’ and Angelika Milster

Solo

  • Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets - Zurich Chamber Orchestra
  • Haydn Trumpet Concerto - Uttlesforde Orchestra
  • Hummel Trumpet Concerto - Essex Concert Orchestra
  • Fanfare for Her Majesty The Queen at Marlborough House
  • Fanfares for ‘The Three Musketeers’ film premiere

Teaching/Outreach

  • Wider Opportunities Scheme in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
  • RCM Sparks - Outreach Projects: Workshop leader, assistant and presenter.
  • Brass Tutor at: The Perse School for Girls (Cambridge), Music’all (Parsons Green)
  • RCM Sparks - Outreach Projects: Workshop leader, assistant and presenter
  • Brent Enrichment Project for Key Stage 2 pupils - Brentfield Primary and Kinsgbury Green Primary Schools
  • St. Paul’s School, Barnes - Composition Project for GCSE music students
  • Triumph Brass Tour to Trinidad and Tobago - including leading workshops with local musicians

Education

  • Royal College of Music - BMus Hons (2006 - 2010)

Professors: Paul Archibald Paul Beniston Ian Balmain Alan Thomas Paul Mayes Neil Brough (Natural Trumpet)

Awards

  • The Herbert Samuel Memorial for Trumpet - Royal College of Music (2010)
  • Scholarship to study at The Royal College of Music (2006)
  • The Glyn Lewis Bursary (2003)

Referees
 
Paul Archibald
Ian Balmain
 

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MAS takes no responsibility for its accuracy.

Instruments
Trumpet, Cornet, D Trumpet, Eb Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Natural Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet

Ensembles
Triumph Brass