305 Caroline BrownNames on the buses
Connections with Brighton and Hove : Caroline Brown, who died from a rare form of cancer founded the Hanover Band in 1980. Her aim was to perform Beethoven on appropriate period instruments, bringing the spirit of discovery which she said had energised Baroque performance to the Classical period and beyond. A recorded Beethoven symphony cycle was finished by the group by 1987 and it went on to add the complete symphonies of Schubert, Weber and Schumann as well as the full orchestral works of J.C. Bach to the discography. These were on Nimbus Records, Hyperion Records, Sony, EMI Eminence, RCA, CPO and other labels. Brown’s search for the earliest available versions of Beethoven’s symphonies, working with Jonathan Del Mar and others, led in time to the complete edition which is now in wide use throughout international orchestras. The Hanover Band made regular appearances at top venues all over the world. Caroline Brown trained as a cellist at the Royal College of Music with Anna Shuttleworth and Joan Dickson, and the Hochschule für Music, Vienna, with André Navarra, graduating in 1976. She returned to study in 1998, gaining an MA in Music Education from Trinity College of Music. Married to Stephen Neiman, an entrepreneur who ran The Old Market in Hove for several years, she was based in Sussex locations such as Arundel. She was diagnosed with Krukenberg tumour, a rare form of metastatic cancer, in 2012. She died in 2018 aged 64.
305 Alexander Dennis Enviro - carried name since September 2019.