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Back Kevin Larsson Kevin Larsson is a prominent and much published brass band composer, especially within the ranks of The Salvation Army. Kevin lives in Huntington Beach, California where he is the Music Director for The Salvation Army in that region. As well as day-to-day tasks to ensure that high standards of music are achieved throughout The Salvation Army, Kevin has responsibility over some high-profile events, including being Bandmaster of the Rose Parade band, a role he has carried out with distinction for 20 years. Kevin enjoys composing for a variety of genres including brass band, vocal and big band, and has had a number of arrangements featured on national television.

Kevin Larsson Kevin Larsson is a British composer/arranger living in California. He is a prominent and much published writer for brass band and other genres, and has had a number of arrangements featured on national television.

Rob Bushnell Rob Bushnell has enjoyed many successes to date as a composer, arranger, conductor and typesetter, producing hundreds of pieces for a large variety of ensembles, which have been performed the world over.

Back William Gordon William Gordon is a prolific composer/arranger of brass and wind band music. His music has been performed extensively and has been featured in many brass band contests and concerts throughout the world. His eclectic styles have been a constant feature that continues to attract many to the popularity of his music. As an active member of The Salvation Army, his music has found a meaningful impact on their musical mission.

Back Sean A. Brown Sean A. Brown is a freelance hornist, teacher, conductor and composer/arranger living in Oak Harbor, WA, USA. He manages an active brass lesson studio of 25+ students, and directs middle school and high school brass ensembles. He also holds a summer camp for brass players and directs a community horn ensemble. In addition he does multi-track recording for brass ensemble, as he is proficient on all brass instruments. Videos can be found on his YouTube channel. Sean is the composer-in-residence for the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island.

Back Brian Bowen The music of Brian Bowen, FTCL, came into prominence within The Salvation Army, where many of his compositions and arrangements have been published. He was Bandmaster for 25 years of the Salvation Army Band of Staines (his English home town) and also played flugelhorn in the International Staff Band (1964-76). For many years he worked in London as a music editor for The Salvation Army, Josef Weinberger Ltd and principally Schott/Eulenburg. In 1986 he moved to the USA to become Bandmaster of the New York Staff Band. In 1992 he became a freelance music editor and currently resides with his wife, Lois, in Sarasota, Florida. His many published brass band compositions include 'My Comfort and Strength', 'The Southern Cross', 'Day of the Spiritual', and 'Euphonium Music'. His compilation of popular Rimsky-Korsakov themes under the title 'Kaleidoscope' has received wide acclaim. Brian sadly passed away, aged 82, in September 2022 and BrookWright is pleased to continue his legacy by making some of his music available.

David Robb David Robb studied composition at Surrey University, where he was tutored by Derek Bourgeois. David has played cornet in all of the top Scottish brass bands and trumpet in various orchestras.

Back William Himes William Himes was born and raised in Michigan, USA, where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Music Education and Performance/Composition, respectively. He taught instrumental music for five years in the public schools of Flint, Michigan, and was also an adjunct lecturer in low brass at the University of Michigan-Flint. From 1977 to 2015 he was director of The Salvation Army's Music and Gospel Arts Department for the USA Central Territory in Chicago, Illinois. In this capacity he also served as conductor of the Chicago Staff Band, which has performed throughout North America and several international tours. Throughout his career he has appeared as a conductor, clinician, and soloist throughout the United States, Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Haiti, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Well known for his compositions and arrangements, his works appear in more than 400 publications. William is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and his music is frequently featured on international broadcasts and recordings. He presently teaches composition at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL.

Sean A. Brown Sean A. Brown is a freelance hornist, teacher, conductor and composer/arranger living in Oak Harbor, WA, USA and is the composer-in-residence for the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island.

Kevin Norbury Kevin Norbury is a British composer living in Canada. Highly respected in the brass band world, his works are regularly played by both Salvation Army and contesting brass bands.

Phil Rayment Philip Rayment is a Canadian composer, performer and conductor from Hamilton, Ontario. As a composer/arranger, Phil has had his brass band, choral and solo works performed, recorded and published around the world.

Back Andrew E. Lawson Andrew E. Lawson is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, teacher, and horn player. He is the Band Director at Springfield Middle School just north of Nashville, Tennessee. Andrew devotes his time away from Springfield to music composition and performance. He is a two-time winner of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s international fanfare composition contest, an arranger and orchestrator for Sovereign Grace Music, and composes music for middle school, high school, university, and professional bands and orchestras across the United States. As a performer, Andrew frequently appears in regional bands and orchestras in Middle and East Tennessee, and is a member of the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass Band in Crossville, TN. Andrew studied Instrumental Music Education at Tennessee Technological University. During his time at TTU, he was a member of the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, University Orchestra, Bryan Symphony Orchestra, Horn Choir, Clarion Wind Quintet, Aureus Wind Quintet, and the Golden Eagle Marching Band. He has also performed with the Sewanee Symphony Orchestra, United States Navy Band, and United States Army Field Band. Andrew's professional affiliations include active memberships in the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association (MTSBOA), Tennessee Music Educators Association (TMEA), Tennessee Bandmasters Association (TBA), High School Band Director's National Association (HSBDNA), National Band Association (NBA), American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME).

Andrew E. Lawson Andrew E. Lawson is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, teacher, and horn player. He is a two-time winner of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s international fanfare composition contest.

Back James Curnow American composer James Curnow received a Bachelor of Music degree from Wayne State University and a Master of Music from Michigan State University. He has taught all areas and levels of instrumental music, and has received numerous awards for teaching and composition, including the Outstanding Educator of America, the Citation of Excellence from the National Bandmasters Association, the North American Brass Band President's Award, the Volkwein Composition Award (twice), the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award (twice), the International Competition for Original Compositions for Band, and the Coup de Vents Composition Competition of Le Havre, France. He was named Composer of the Year by the Kentucky Music Teachers Association and the National Music Teachers Association. Most recently he received the Arts Achievement Award from Wayne State University. He has received annual ASCAP standard awards since 1979. James has been commissioned to write over 400 works for concert band, brass band, orchestra, choir, and various vocal and instrumental ensembles. His total published works now number well over 800. As a conductor, composer, and clinician he has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe, where his music has received wide acclaim. James currently resides in North Carolina with his wife Margaret, and is a full time composer of commissions worldwide. He publishes with Hal Leonard LLC/Curnow Music Press, Inc. He serves as Composer-in-Residence Emeritus for Asbury University (Wilmore, KY) and is editor of all music publications for The Salvation Army in Atlanta, Georgia. James was most recently honored with a listing in the Grove Dictionary of American Musicians.

Back Derek M. Jenkins Derek M. Jenkins (b. 1986, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is an American composer whose music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada by ensembles and performers including the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra; the Fountain City Brass Band; the Seattle Wind Symphony; the U.S. Army Materiel Command Band; university bands and wind ensembles in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; the Youth Symphony of Kansas City Symphony Orchestra; the Diamond Brass Band; Mid America Freedom Band; Tri-State Wind Symphony; the Carinthia, Joseph Wytko, and Saxophilia Saxophone Quartets; Ensemble for These Times; Songeaters; Washington Square Winds; Musica Nova; saxophonists Randall Hall, Gilbert Sabitzer, Michael Shults, and Joseph Wytko; and honor bands and orchestras around the country. Jenkins's piece, 'Rock Bottom', was a finalist for the 2022 3rd Annual WASBE International Composition Contest. He won the 2016 American Prize in Composition for 'We Seven' and in 2012, his piece, 'Eosphorus: The Morning Star', was selected as a winner of the National Band Association's Young Composer Mentor Project. Derek has received additional recognition from MMTA/MTNA, the Missouri State University Composition Festival, Red Note New Music Festival, MACRO, the UMKC Conservatory, the UMKC School of Graduate Studies, ASCAP, the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, and at conferences and festivals across the U.S. and abroad, including the Midwest Clinic, Brass in Concert, CBDNA Divisional Conferences, SCI National and Regional Conferences, the USF New-Music Festival and Symposium, the LGBA National Conference, the NASA Biennial National Conference, the Florida State University Biennial Festival of Music, the Ball State University Festival of New Music, and CMS Regional Conferences. Derek serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Theory and Composition at Arkansas State University, is currently the Coordinator of the South Central Division and Arkansas MTNA Composition Competitions, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Jonesboro-based Diamond Brass Band. He has given masterclass presentations at the Sveučilište U Zagrebu Muzička Akademja, the University of Salford, and several universities and high schools around the US. Derek holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (DMA Composition, MM Musicology, 2017; BM Composition, BM Theory, 2010) and Rice University (MM Composition, 2013). Additionally, he has received further instruction at the Kärntner Landeskonservatorium (now the Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik) and the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. Beyond music, he was a Preparing Future Faculty Fellow at UMKC where he earned a Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Career Preparation, and he briefly studied mathematics at Loras College. His music can be heard on the ABLAZE Records, Mark Custom Records, and World of Brass labels, and is available through BrookWright Music, Murphy Music Press, Veritas Musica Publishing, and under his own imprint, Mühltal Musikpresse. More information can be found at: www.derekmjenkins.com .

Back Barrie Gott Barrie Gott has been a professional musician for over 50 years. His work as a composer, arranger, conductor, educator and adjudicator has taken him all over the world. He has taught at all levels of education in private and government sectors and was Director of Instrumental Music at Azusa Pacific University in California. Barrie’s compositions for concert and brass bands are well known and in 2004 he was awarded the Frank Wright medal for services to banding. He is the former owner and musical director of the Queensland Pops Orchestra, working with Australian and international artists. In 2015 he retired from the Queensland Department of Education and Training as a Senior Instrumental Teacher but continues to provide relief teaching and consultancy in Sydney. Barrie has served as bandmaster for Salvation Army bands in Sydney, Brisbane and Pasadena California. He is also a former musical director for the Brisbane Excelsior Brass Band. In retirement, he works with his wife Jay in a creative arts production company providing music, graphic art and film making.

Back Phil Lawrence Phil Lawrence is a British composer and arranger who is at home in a wide variety of musical styles and idioms. He started composing at a young age and studied composition with James Eastham and Dr. Edward Ho. His diverse work has involved composing horn lines for 'The Sugar Babes' on the track 'Get Sexy', and a number feature films including two episodes of 'Roary The Racing Car' with the Fairey Band, rescoring the '1921 Nosferatu', and in May 2012 a première at Cannes where he scored the re-make of the 'The Magnificent Seven', later re-named 'The Magnificent Eleven', which starred Robert Vaughn (original cast member of the original seven) and directed by Irvine Welsh, author of 'Trainspotting'. He has composed music for TV adverts including The Times, Ibuleve, Nike, The Sunday Times, Smarties, The Mirror, Guiness, The Sun, Post Office, and The News Of The World. His trumpet concerto 'Blaze' was premièred at the Bridgewater Hall to full capacity by Richard Marshall and Grimethorpe Colliery Band. It was also performed in the USA at the International Trumpet Guild, with James Fountain as soloist. He would later receive a nomination from the British Academy of Composers in conjunction with BBC Radio 3. In addition Phil was commissioned by the RAF in 2018 for its centenary concert at the Albert Hall to a capacity of 5,400. Phil played with British Rail Edge Hill Band Liverpool under Bob Dean, and attending the RNCM joined Manchester CWS Band where he played under Rex Mortimer, Maurice Handford, Jim Scott and Frank Renton. In 2005 he was appointed composer in residence with the Fairy Band, culminating in an album of his works and arrangements with World of Brass entitled 'It's Not Unusual', conducted by Frank Renton. As a trumpet player, he has performed with many of the finest orchestras in the UK, including the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Opera North, Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Opera. In 1982 he moved to London and worked with the Royal Opera for four years, before work presented itself with the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and London Symphony Orchestras, as well as in west end and film sessions. At this time he started to compose more seriously, having played with greats such as Philip Jones, John Wilbraham, Derek Watkins, Maurice Murphy, Micheal Laird, John Wallace, Jim Watson and David Mason. Phil also held the position of guest conductor with the New London Symphony Orchestra, and gave concerts at St Martin in The Fields and St John's Smith Square.

Back J. Aaron Stanley J. Aaron Stanley is an active freelance composer, arranger and trumpeter currently living in Dallas Fort Worth, USA. He was the composer in residence to the Irving Symphony Orchestra for the 2019-2020 season, where his work Huapango de los Muertos was premiered in February 2020. He has written a number of other concert works for many different types of ensembles, including several short film scores while living in Los Angeles. Aaron’s music tends to have cinematic flair combined with rhythmic drive, colorful orchestration, often bold harmonies, attention to craft, and more recently, inclusion of jazz influences, and experimentation with musical palindromes at the motivic and structural level. As an arranger, Aaron has written over 150 arrangements in many different styles for ensembles ranging from small combinations to full symphony orchestra. Aaron has a B.M. in Trumpet Performance from Missouri State University and will finish his M.M. in Music Composition from Southern Methodist University in 2021. He has studied composition with Dr. John Prescott, Dr. Michael Murray, Dr. Carolyn Bremer, Dr. Robert Frank, and Dr. Xi Wang.

Micheal Bakare Michael Bakare is a highly respected composer and music educator. He is a member of the ISME (International Society on Music Education) and ANIM (Association of Nigerian Musicologists) amongst other significant roles.

Back Yasuaki Fukuhara Yasuaki Fukuhara was born in Japan and received a Bachelor of Psychology degree at the Japanese University in 2009 before accepting a place to study percussion at The Royal Northern College of Music. Whilst at the RNCM he received a scholarship before graduating in 2014. Yasuaki was a finalist in the Italy Percussion Competition (Vibraphone). He is currently an instrument endorsee for Majestic Percussion. In 2011 Yasuaki was the first Japanese player to join the Fairey Brass Band and five months later he was listed in the ‘Top five percussionists of 2011’ by the brass band website 4barsrest. He has been featured in a number of music magazines including an extensive interview in the internationally acclaimed brass band magazine The British Bandsman. Yasuaki is interested in expanding the repertoire for solo percussion with brass band accompaniment and he gave the premiere performance of Rodney Newton’s percussion concerto ‘The Golden Apples of the Sun’ at the 2013 RNCM Festival of Brass. He joined the Leyland Band and continued to be featured as a soloist, including a performance at the 2013 Brass in Concert Contest. Yasuaki released his debut solo album recorded with Leyland band in July 2014. It has been sold in several countries and received critical acclaim. Yasuaki subsequently joined the world famous Black Dyke Band, becoming the first ever Japanese player in the band's history. Yasuaki trained for three years as a Buddhist priest after returning to Japan. Currently he is active as a percussionist and priest and has appeared on various television programmes and in magazines in Japan. Yasuaki also takes a keen interest in composition and arrangement for brass band, and has arranged the 'Vivace' from Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No.2, published by BrookWright Music.