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Angels of the North: a trip back in time.
A celebration of the people and places of the North of England, Angels of the North is a unique selection of archive film scored for brass band by composer Neil Brand. The new work will be premiered in Sheffield in October 2022 by Brighouse and Rastrick Band as part of the 5th Yorkshire Silent Film Festival.
Neil Brand has been accompanying and composing for silent films for over 30 years with scores for classics such as Blackmail, Robin Hood, and Underground (premiered by BBC Symphony Orchestra), and the Lodger and Oliver Twist (premiered by Covent Garden Sinfonia at Yorkshire Silent Film Festival). He followed these successes with two through-scored radio adaptations, The Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol for orchestra, choir and actors commissioned by Radios 3 and 4, subsequently performed live by the BBCSO and BBC Singers at Barbican Concert Hall. Neil is well known as a TV presenter on BBC4 with his hugely successful series Sound of Cinema, Sound of Song, Sound of TV, and Sound of Musicals. He is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Film Programme, a Fellow of Aberystwyth University a Visiting Professor of both the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music, was awarded the BASCA Gold Badge in 2016 and is considered one of the finest improvising piano accompanists in the world.