Connaught Brass with Zeynep Ozsuca: Christmas Special

Connaught Brass’s 2025 Christmas concert was so good – so uplifting and delightfully Christmasy – we’ve invited them back for more gorgeous seasonal brass, this time with the additional musical warmth of Zeynep Özsuca on piano. Aaron Akugbo trumpets Harry Plant trumpets, flugel horn Zoë Tweed horn Chris Brewster trombone Aled Meredith-Barrett tuba Zeynep Özsuca piano Programme Gale Opening to a Connaught Christmas Liszt Selections from Weihnachtsbaum Trad arr Roberts Ding Dong Merrily On High Fauré arr Foster Cantique de Jean Racine Trad arr Roberts Come Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl Holst arr Blaskowski Venus from The Planets J S Bach arr Foster Excerpts from Christmas Oratorio Trad arr Harvey Sussex Carol Darke In The Bleak Midwinter Simone/Trad arr Latto Little Girl Blue / O Come Emmanuel Prokofiev arr Foster Troika Blending a deep respect for the genre’s rich heritage with a vibrant virtuosity, the multi-prize winning Connaughts have come a long way in a short space of time, sharing their bold, inspiring vision of what brass music can be in some of the most prestigious venues around the world. ‘Technically astonishing, eclectic in repertoire, and prepared to explode clichés of what brass chamber music should sound like.’ The Arts Desk