Congratulations to HWDMS Brass Tutor Lucy Pankhurst who has won a 2011 British Composer Award at the prestigious ceremony held at Stationers’ Hall in London on Wednesday evening (30th November).

Her atmospheric work, ‘In Pitch Black’ which commemorates the tragic Pretoria Pit Disaster of 21st December 1910, at Hulton Colliery, Westhoughton, close to the home of the Wingates Band – members of which were killed in a disaster that claimed 344 lives, won the Wind Band & Brass Band category – the first time ever that a work for brass has taken the award since its inception in 2003.

Fantastic News - Well Done Lucy!