Brass Ensemble Day
This workshop is for a mixed group of 20-25 brass players at an ability level of around grade 3 and above. It will be held on Saturday 1 November 2025 at Kemnay Church Centre and will be expertly led by Hamish Wood who will provide tuition for the players taking part.
Music planned includes: Maccabeus, A Man from Clan, Toot and Ska Man and Havana.
Provisional workshop timetable:
- 09.30 arrival and set up
- 10.00 - 13.00 tutored session (including break) followed by lunch
- 13.45 - 14.45 tutored session followed by a short break
- 15.00 - 15.30 performance session and depart
If you would like to attend, please contact inveruriemusic@gmail.com with your name, address, phone number and instrument.
Payment should be made by 25 October 2025 - payment by bank transfer preferred.
Account Number: 00842458
Account name: Inverurie Music Sort Code: 80-08-41
Hamish Wood graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2008 with a degree in Music, specialising in trombone. During his time at university, he played in a range of ensembles and has continued performing with orchestras including Grampian Sinfonia, Aberdeen Sinfonietta, and Aberdeen Chamber Orchestra. Since graduating, Hamish has worked as a Brass Instructor with Aberdeenshire Council's Instrumental Music Service.
He teaches brass instruments to pupils in both primary and secondary schools across the Aboyne, Alford, Banchory and Huntly areas. He has also been involved in a number of regional music projects, including conducting the South/Central Aberdeenshire Music Centre Youth Orchestra and previously the North Aberdeenshire Music Centre Junior Concert Band. He is a regular tutor at the annual Aberdeenshire Youth Orchestra residential course, which has included tours to Belgium and Germany.
Hamish is the founding Musical Director of the Inverurie Concert Band and has gone on to establish both the Inverurie Concert Band Youth Section and the Inverurie Concert Band Big Band, helping create more opportunities for young and adult musicians alike in the local community. Alongside this, Hamish is a Brass Tutor at the International School of Aberdeen.
Through this role, he has travelled to various cities for Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) festivals, including Düsseldorf, Munich, Bucharest, and Doha.
Inverurie Music Workshops are generously supported by the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust