Surrey Brass is 25 years old!

Announcing the Surrey Brass Silver Jubilee Concert, celebrating the very best of our 25 years of innovative and entertaining performance.

7:30pm Saturday 31st October 2026

St. Martin's Church Dorking RH4 1UT.

What you can expect

This is a truly special concert. It combines many of our audience favourites with our innovative commissions.

Fanfares old and new, large and small.
"Concorde" by Rob Davis
"Brass Energy" by Barry Forgie
Music for Silent Films
Music for Loud Films
Brass Ensemble Classics
Dance Music
Jazz, featuring Surrey Brass soloists
and much more
The concert will be conducted by William Barnes-McCallum

Preview the Music

Jazz

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead arranged specially for us by Barry Forgie Barry Forgie and recorded live at its premiere on 24th November 2012, at the Vera Fletcher Hall, Thames Ditton, Performed by Surrey Brass.

Concorde

Written by Rob Davies and commissioned by Surrey Brass to commemorate the famous aeroplane. The Concorde was first introduced on January 21, 1976, and was retired on October 24, 2003, making it 27 years old at the time of its retirement. It's now 23 years since it last flew, but it will fly again at our concert! Here's Droop Snoot (synthesised version). We'll be playing the "Test Flight" version of Concorde, a bit shorter than the full piece which lasts over 20 minutes. Learn more about .

The Energy Suite

has several movements tracing man's relationship with energy over the centuries - here's a snippet from "Animal Energy". Learn more about .

Fanfares

We have plenty of these to choose from. Here's the fanfare from our inaugural Concert 25 years ago, the Golden Jubilee Fanfare Contest 7.30 pm Saturday 25th May 2002. The winning entry was the "Golden Jubilee Fanfare" by John Hughes. It's become the Surrey Brass signature opening number for many of our concerts.

As it's our 25th Concert, we are planning to play perhaps the biggest and most epic fanfare of all time, the Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare by Richard Strauss. It requires such large forces we haven't recorded it yet, so here is someone else playing it so you can imagine what it will sound like in St. Martin's Church in Dorking.