Director
Nigel Horne was born and
raised on the English coast and has had forty years in the
brass band movement, having started on the cornet with the
Margate Silver Band when he was 8 years old. After
graduating from the University of London, he joined the
Hendon Band on tenor horn. He moved to Barnsley, Yorkshire,
England where he has since moved to percussion, playing
with many bands including Yorkshire Imps and Carlton Main
Frickley. He has wide ranging musical experience that
covers choral as well as concert and brass band music and
is also known as a composer and arranger. He now runs NJH
music: a distributor for himself and other composers. Nigel
has worked with and conducted bands of all abilities from
several countries and he now tutors music composition to
students from all over the world on a one-to-one basis and
is a member of the Executive Council of the National
Association of Brass Band Conductors.
He has a postgraduate research degree in brass and wind
band composition from the University of Leeds and degrees
in music from the Open University and Sheffield University.
He has studied under many of the top names in brass bands
including Philip Wilby, Arthur Butterworth, Richard Evans,
Roy Newsome, Darrol Barry and Alan Fernie. He also holds
the Licentiate Diploma in Brass Band Adjudication from the
University of Salford. He is often contacted to help
national and local broadcast and printed media, both on and
off the record for information about brass bands, the
history of the movement and its current state. His
websites, www.bandsman.co.uk
and
www.concert-bands.co.uk,
are amongst the most popular brass and concert band sites
in the world.
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