Director of the Rockville
Brass Band
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 degrees in music from the Open University and
Sheffield University and has recently started his
postgraduate research degree into brass and wind band
composition at Leeds 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.
Nigel has worked with
several bands within North America, and has had an
association with the Rockville Brass Band since
2007.
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