StAMP 2025: commission for youth brass players

St Andrews Music Participation (StAMP) is a music education project in Fife that aims to support and invigorate the cultural heritage of brass playing in schools, in the community, and across the world. The project is a partnership between the University of St Andrews Laidlaw Music Centre, Fife Music Service, Fife Brass Bands and The Wallace Collection

Finale Celebration - June 2025

StAMP has been a hugely successfuol 5-year project, expanding youth brass playing across Fife and creating pathways into bands for young players; and Oi Musica was delighted to come on board for the project's grand Finale! Creative Director Marcus Britton, along with emeringng trombone player Oscar Hilliam-Cook, visited bands in Fife to gather creative ideas from their youth players and write a piece that celebrates the story of StAMP - from pre-pandemic planning and survival through the pandemic, to the success story it has become.

Hear about 'Hope, Lament and Stomp' in the players' own words!

'Vibes of a Hundred Marchers' is an original piece co-composed for the event by members of our youth group Brass Blast.

Brass Blast were delighted that their piece of music opened a show that featured Scottish Ballet's cast of community performers, plus pipers Tryst and the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. Our Massed Band joined the pipers for a rousing Finale arrangement of Martyn Bennett's 'Mackay's Memoirs' played by all musicians together.