Victorian Youth Band Festival 2025

Hyde Street Youth Band and Hyde Street Junior Band members joined with youth from across Regional Victoria and Melbourne at the 2025 Victorian Youth Band Festival brough by Skunkworks Community, with Victorian State Youth Brass Band and youth bands and players from Warragul, Wodonga, Phillip Island, Inverloch, Wonthaggi, Warrnambool Dandenong Brass, and from schools all over Melbourne.

And our young players were inspired and motivated by workshops with some of Victoria’s foremost brass musicians from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra :
– Richard Shirley (trombone)
– Abbey Edlin (Horn)
– Tim Buzbee (Tuba)
And
– Mark Fitzpatrick (trumpet) Orchestra Victoria
– James Blackford (Euphonium) Royal Australian Airforce Band
– Campbell Phillips (D2 Drumline HQ)

What an opportunity for young musicians to meet together, play together and learn together! We were also lucky enough to have Will, Otto and Billy perform fabulous solos on mallets, baritone and tuba with band accompaniment. And Imogen Farr-Handley had her conducting debut with the Junior Band!

Photo credit: Linda Ely Fiona Brink Joanne Marshall