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Artistic Director & Resident Conductor-Curtis Metcalf
The Hannaford Street Silver Band is Canada's award winning, professional brass band and Resident Company of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Since 1983, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, formed by professional musicians who love the brass band repertoire and ensemble playing, has been striking up the brass band tradition and stirring up critical and popular acclaim. The HSSB has been featured at The Festival of the Sound, The Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Music On the Henley, The Westben Festival, The Winnipeg New Music Festival and the Massey Hall New Music Festival. Recent guest conductors include Bramwell Tovey, Howard Cable, Michael Reason, Lydia Adams, James Curnow, Harry Pinchin, Ormsby Wilkins, Robert Childs, Elgar Howarth and Alain Trudel. Under the guidance of Anita McAlister and Darryl Eaton, The HSSB sponsors the Hannaford Youth Education Program. Young musicians between the ages of 15 and 22 perform in three vibrant ensembles; The Hannaford Junior Band, The Hannaford Community Band and the Hannaford Street Youth Band. The HSSB maintains a vigorous commissioning program resulting in new concert works for brass band by such Canadian composers as Malcolm Forsyth, Raymond Luedeke, J. Scott Irvine, Andrew MacDonald, Donald Coakley, John Burge, Roger Bergs, Alex Pauk, Omar Daniel, Charles Cozens, Patrick Cardy, Henry Kucharzyk, Gary Kulesha, Randolph Peters, Jeff Ryan, Scott Good, Larysa Kuzmenko, Kelly Marie Murphy, Derek Holman and Barbara Croall. One of its recent commissions, Requiem Mass for a Charred Skull by Bramwell Tovey was awarded a 2003 JUNO Award for Best Classical Composition.. The HSSB has the following recordings to its credit:
In recognition of its accomplishments, in November of 2003, the HSSB was awarded its second Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts. The excitement and appeal of the brass band stems from its distinctive instruments which were developed in the 1850’s. Their sounds have rung out from the coronation of King’s to the village bandstand, and now down Canada’s Hannaford Street. The musicians of the HSSB are members of Local 149 A.F. of M.
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