Jubilee Gigue

This piece was commissioned to be performed on the Georgian barge as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant. Inspired by the "Gigue" (sometimes referred to as "Country Dance") in Handel's original Water Music, the piece has a rollicking, upbeat feel and is now newly arranged for brass band. The story that inspired the piece is of a pirate ship attacking the flotilla. The pirates are then confronted by the courageous defenders of the flotilla who are, of course triumphant in the end. The piece concludes with a final defiant statement of the heroic theme, and the pirates are gone forever.

Debbie Wiseman MBE is one of the UK’s most successful female music ambassadors. Debbie is in demand as a composer and conductor. Throughout the past 20 years, there are probably few people in the UK who have not heard a theme from one of Debbie’s films or television productions. Her credits, over 200 of them, for the big and small screen, include “Flood”, “Warriors”, “Judge John Deed”, “Wilde”, “Haunted”, “Othello”, “Land Girls”, “Joanna Lumley’s Nile”, “Tom & Viv”, “Jekyll”, “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries”, “The Passion”, “The Andrew Marr Show”, “The Guilty”, “Before You Go”, “Arsene lupin”, “He Knew He Was Right”, “Tom’s Midnight Garden”, “Lost Christmas”, Stephen Fry in America”, “The Promise”, “Father Brown”, “The Whale”, “WPC 56”, “A Poet in New York” and “Wolf Hall”.  Debbie has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards for “Wilde” and “Death of Yugoslavia” and has won a TRIC Award for “The Good Guys” and an RTS Award for “Warriors”. She has been awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters. Debbie has been honoured in the Queen's New Year's Honours list with an MBE for services to the music and film industry. She has been awarded Honorary Fellowships at both colleges where she studied, Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Commissioned for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant

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