Spring 2025 Concert Dates

• Wednesday, May 28th at 7:00PM
  • Masonic Village at Elizabethtown, 1 Masonic Drive, Elizabethtown (this is a private event)
• Sunday, June 1st at 4:00PM
  • Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 750 Greenfield Road, Lancaster
• Sunday, June 8th at 2:00PM (45 minute performance)
  • Gettysburg Brass Band Festival, United Lutheran Seminary, 61 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg

Spring Concert Repertoire

• Through The Flames – Paul Lovatt-Cooper
• Be Still – Dorothy Gates
• Root Beer Rag – Billy Joel, arr. Sven Giske
• Brasilia – Robin Dewhurst
  • Rick Staherski – Trombone
• Seize The Day – Peter Graham
• Blenheim  Flourishes – James Curnow
• What Sweeter Music – John Rutter, arr. Luc Vertommen
• John Williams – Epic Themes – arr. Steve Sykes
• Rollipops – Jean-François Michel
  • Cornet Duet – Amy Cherry, Chris Campbell
• Triquetra (Fantasia on Old Hundreth) – Peter Graham      

Save the Dates! Summer 2025 Concert Dates

• Saturday, July 26th at 7:00PM
  • First United Methodist Church, 29 East Walnut Street, Lancaster
• Saturday, August 2nd at 7:00PM
  • St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 10 Delp Rd, Lancaster
• Sunday, August 3rd at 7:00PM
  • Mt. Gretna Tabernacle, 3rd St. & Glossbrenner Avenue, Mt. Gretna

History

Lancaster British Brass Band follows the path first laid down in the smoky mill and mining towns of mid-nineteenth century Britain. Gradually evolving into a fixed instrumentation of 28 players (and 1 conductor), the brass band flourished under the sponsorship of mill and mine owners bent on “morale and spiritual uplift,” thus laying the groundwork for a later time when the Salvation Army began capitalizing on the success of the bands by establishing brass bands as part of their outreach through music.

For concert programs brass bands borrow from virtually every musical genre.  A typical program consists of transcriptions of the classics, marches, hymns, popular music arrangements, solos and, last but not least, original compositions written for the medium. Programs are selected for a balanced presentation that attempts to please a wide range of tastes and interests.

The unique sound quality of Lancaster Brass Band is due to its being composed entirely of brass winds and percussion instruments. The sound of Lancaster British Brass Band has been compared to “one big, magnificent pipe organ.”

About Us

Lancaster British Brass Band consists of 31 players. It draws its personnel from the four state regions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. Originally conceived as a top-level, professional quality ensemble, it includes among its membership professional solo and ensemble players and music teacher/performers. The band members bring years of playing and teaching experience to the organization from such diverse institutions as The United States Marine Band, and the Lancaster, Harrisburg, Reading and York Symphony Orchestras. Many players are currently engaged as teachers in various public and private school venues and in such institutions of higher learning as West Chester, Millersville and Kutztown Universities, Lebanon Valley College, and The University of Delaware.

Meet The Conductor

Dr. Tina DiMeglio is a professional educator, conductor, and clarinetist. She is currently the Director of Bands at Pennsbury High School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she directs the Pennsbury High School “Long Orange Line” Marching Band, PHS Symphonic Winds, and the Pennsbury Community Band. She often works as a clinician, presenter, and guest conductor for professional, amateur, and honor bands around the nation.

DiMeglio was most recently the Associate Director of Bands at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where she conducted the USF Symphonic and Concert Bands, taught undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and music education, and was the Assistant Director of Athletic Bands. She is currently Music Director of the Lancaster British Brass Band in Pennsylvania, and formerly served as the Music Director of the Tampa Brass Band from 2021-2024.

In the summer of 2023, Dr. DiMeglio conducted the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in the nation’s capital as a guest conductor and conducting workshop participant. She won first prize at the Inaugural Frederick Fennell International Conducting Competition, held in Modica, Italy in November 2021. She was a Conducting Fellow in the 2019 Midwest Clinic Reynolds Conducting Institute, and was also a recipient of the 2019 CBDNA Mike Moss Diversity Conducting Fellowship Study Grant. She actively works toward increased diversity and inclusion in the wind band medium, collaborating with composers and artists from historically marginalized communities and mentoring conductors of all genders. DiMeglio has recently shared her expertise in conducting, rehearsal techniques, and concert programming at the 2023 Midwest Clinic and 2024 Florida and Pennsylvania Music Educators Association conferences.

DiMeglio earned a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree from the University of Miami, where she studied Instrumental Conducting with Dr. Robert Carnochan and conducted the prestigious Frost Wind Ensemble. She holds a Master of Music Degree in Wind Conducting from West Chester University and a bachelor’s degree in music education, clarinet concentration, from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music where she studied clarinet with Paul Demers of the Philadelphia Orchestra and graduated Magna Cum Laude as a member of the academic honors program.

Dr. DiMeglio maintains a private conducting studio and performs professionally as a conductor, clinician, and clarinetist. When not teaching or performing, she enjoys spending time with her husband Jonathan and their many rescue animals.

Meet The Players

• Soprano Cornet
  • Douglas Albert
• Solo Cornet
  • Amy Cherry
  • Chris Campbell
  • Priscilla King
  • Curtis Palmer
  • Paul Belser
• 2nd Cornet
  • Jason Blome
  • Martin Hinkley
• 3rd Cornet
  • Nathan Froehlich
  • Dan Kerr
• Repiano Cornet
  • Bob Belser
• Flugelhorn
  • Scott Loose
• Tenor Horn
  • Kris Albert
  • Deanna Perkins
  • Lori Groff
• Trombone
  • Rick Staherski
  • Dale Groome
• Bass Trombone
  • Ernie Lightfoot
• Baritone
  • Ryan Kriebel
  • Dana Stinson
• Euphonium
  • Mark Brumbach
  • Jennifer Jester
• Eb Tuba
  • Steve Holgate
  • Ken Kemmerer
  • Justin Lerma
• Bb Tuba
  • Chris Liounis
  • George McBlane
• Percussion
  • Judson Brill
  • Clem Lichty
  • Lizbeth Stephan
  • Ed Vaughen

Board of Directors

• Robert Belser, President/Treasurer
• Doug Albert, Vice-President
• L. Gene Clark, Secretary
• D. Scott Loose, Librarian

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