The Gisborne Youth Concert Band is a Youth Concert Band which resides in Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne, New Zealand

-Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...

. The band, consisting of members aged from Year 7 (Form 1) (7th Grade) and above, quickly became successful with the conductorship of both Stephen Shone and Alex Nyman.
Instruments currently played in the band are as follows:
Flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

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Clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

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Trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

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Cornet

Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.-History:The cornet was...

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Alto Saxophone

Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...

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Tenor Saxophone

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

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Baritone Saxophone

Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...

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F Horn,
Eb Horn,
Euphonium

Euphonium

The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...

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Tuba,
Eb Bass,
Bass Guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

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Keyboard/Bass,
Various Percussion instrument

Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

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Timpani

Timpani

Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...

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Drum

Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

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The band received funding from the Eastern and Central Trusts fund, which helped fund for the trip to Napier, New Zealand in August 2005 for the New Zealand Concert Bands Association Annual Festival. The band was awarded 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal for their performance at this festival.

In August 2006, the band attended the New Zealand Concert Bands Association Annual Festival in Auckland, New Zealand. The band was very successful here, gaining Gold Medals for both Entertainment and Festival Performance Sections, a silver medal and a bronze medal for the jazz and brass ensembles entered as well as a silver medal and a bronze medal for the two soloists Flautist Lauren Grout and Tubist David Cochrane.

As of early 2007, the previous conductor Mr. Stephen Shone is no longer conducting the band and the position is being filled by Chris Fox, brother of Rodger Fox (Rodger Fox Big Band) with help from Raewyn Hunt.

At the end of 2006, the band auditioned for, and was accepted to play at the Australian International Music Festival in Sydney, Australia in June 2007. The band gained a Silver award for their performance at the Sydney Town Hall, and they also played at the Sydney Opera House and Darling Harbour.

In August 2007, under the conductorship of Chris Fox, the band won two gold awards at the North Island Festival held in Palmerston North

Palmerston North

Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of and is the country's seventh largest city and eighth largest urban area. Palmerston North is located in the eastern Manawatu Plains near the north bank...

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New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. A silver award was also awarded to the band's ensemble.

The Band will be attending the 2008 New Zealand Concert Bands Association National Festival in Wellington, New Zealand under the conductorship of Chris Fox.

For the 2009 music season, Alex Nyman is once again conductor of the Gisborne Youth Concert Band.