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Geneva Group announces scholarship quartet

Four talented young German musicians are heading to the UK to learn more about UK banding, playing and student life!

Geneva Group
  Four talented young musicians will head to the UK as part of the Geneva Group scholarship scheme.

Geneva Group has announced that four talented young players from the 3BA Band organisation in Germany have won a place on a year long Geneva Brass Scholarship.

Four full days

As part of the Scholarship, the students will be arriving in the UK on Monday 31st October accompanied by members of the 3BA Band management, Jorge Seggelke and Marco Korkisch to take part in four full days of brass ensemble playing and tuition.

They will spend three full days studying at Salford College as well as visiting Fairey, Foden's, Rothwell Temperance and Reg Vardy Bands to take part in their rehearsals. They will enjoy various ensemble playing, individual tuition and a little bit of student life!

It will be a very busy trip and we hope that the students will have a really great experience during their time here in the UKGeneva Group

Very busy trip

A Geneva Group spokesperson told 4BR: "It will be a very busy trip and we hope that the students will have a really great experience during their time here in the UK."

The members of the scholarships 17 year old cornet and horn players player Benjamin Hettrich and Andreas Lugosi, who both play from the 3BA Youth Band, and 18 year old cornet players, Christopher Seggelke and Sebastian Seidl who play for the 3BA Concert Band.

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