Trombone quartet Slide Action won the 68th ROSL Annual Music Competition Mixed Ensembles Section Prize on Tuesday 6 October and were awarded £10,000. Among four ensembles, the ensemble impressed the jury with their exceptional blend and musicianship.
Following a seven month delay, this year saw wind quintet Pacific Winds, saxophone, violin and piano ensemble The Kavinsky Trio; Tango group The Nuevo Tango Ensemble, and Trombone Quartet Slide Action who battled it out for the £10,000 prize and made for an eclectic and exciting evening of musicmaking. The adjudicators Gavin Henderson CBE, Geoff Parkin, Sarah Field and Huw Wiggin had the difficult decision of choosing the section winners, who also won the Philip Jones Prize for an Outstanding Brass Ensemble.
Formed in 2018, Slide Action won first prize in the International Trombone Association Quartet competition held at the 2019 International Trombone Festival, held at Ball State University, Indiana, USA.
The members of Slide Action are all professional freelance trombonists; working with orchestras, bands and shows all across the UK and Europe. Collectively the members have worked with the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London Philharmonic, London Symphony, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Aurora, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Opera North, City of Birmingham Symphony and Welsh National Opera Orchestras, to name but a few. They have also worked in the pits of the West End on shows such as Fiddler on the Roof and Phantom of the Opera.
Slide Action is very proud and thankful to be supported by Denis Wick Products Ltd. They perform exclusively on Wick mouthpieces and mutes.
ROSL Annual Music Competition Section Finals take place each Tuesday 7-9pm at Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London, SW1A 1LR:
- 11 February: Wind and Percussion – winner Sirius Chau flute
- 18 February: Singers – winner Siân Dicker soprano
- 25 February: Strings – Eleanor Corr violin
- 3 March: Keyboard – Dominic Doutney piano
- 10 March: Ensemble A (Strings) – Fitzroy Piano Quartet
- 6 October: Ensemble B (Mixed) – Slide Action
- 13 October: Overseas Award
- 17 November: Gold Medal Final which will be held at Royal Over-Seas League.
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ROSL ANNUAL MUSIC COMPETITION
The ROSL Annual Music Competition grew out of a series of concerts inaugurated at Over-Seas House in 1947 under the banner ‘Festival of Commonwealth Youth’. The Festival became competitive in 1952, with a first prize of £10. Over the past 68 years the competition has grown in scope and prestige and now awards in excess of £80,000 for solo performers, accompanists and chamber ensembles. Past ROSL prizewinners makes for an impressive alumnus of musicians of the highest calibre who have established prominent careers in the music profession. Find a list of past winners here: https://www.rosl.org.uk/music/music-alumni . To mark ROSL’s centenary in 2010 an appeal was launched to secure the future endowment of the ROSL Annual Music Competition Awards and Commonwealth Music Scholarships, currently worth £125,000 per annum. The funds are held in the ROSL Trust (registered charity 306095). To make a donation contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.