Recent Projects
Brass Research and Scholarship in Scotland (BRaSS)
The RSAMD is home to a hotbed of brass scholarship and performance, with a group of
researchers and performers gathered around internationally renowned trumpeter, Professor John
Wallace, Principal of the Academy. At the RSAMD, brass performance practice and historical research
interact with performance at the highest level, and the commissioning and performance of new music
for brass instruments.
The Academy’s first international Brass Forum was held on 14 July 2009 and focused on
the many dimensions of the trumpet including historical aspects, organological considerations;
contemporary performance practices; and collaboration with composers.
View forum details and
abstracts from this event.
Each future forum will combine conventional scholarly research, performance and teaching in a
multivalent event. Subsequent events in the programme will consider Historical Perspectives
and Brass in Culture.
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