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New Directions

With the support of the Arts Council of Wales and Moondance Foundation, during 2020, through the period of the global covid-19 pandemic, Craig and Lewis Merthyr Band will commission a series of new works from a selection of composers, as follows:

- Steve Bingham: Ascension
- Chris Marshall: Fulling Mill Lea
- Chris Marshall: Homecoming
- Andrew Powell: The Curious Case of The Hawk & The Wolf
- Grace Williams / Trans. Painter: Mountain Scene (from The Blue Scar)


The band will also explore the following existing, yet rarely performed, works:

- Mervyn Burtch: Hiraeth
​- Stephen Roberts: World Dances
- Mick Wilson: Concerto for Six String Electric Violin & Brass Band
- Gareth Wood: Concerto For Harp & Brass Band


For full information on all these works, visit the New Directions project section of the Lewis Merthyr Band website here
For the full list of works that Craig has commissioned to date, visit the Commissions section of this website here

Excerpts from a number of the works, can be found below

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