About the Band

Musical Advisor:- Dr GOFF  RICHARDS
Chairman:- LEONARD ADAMS

The Cornwall Youth Brass Band is the oldest County Youth Band in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1955 and held it's first Residential Course in 1959, the start of a long tradition, which has continued without a break until the present time.  Indeed the Band now holds two courses a year, at Christmas and Easter, each culminating in a Public Concert.

The season starts in September when prospective Members are auditioned to allocate their seating positions in the Band.  Rehearsals are held once a month at Truro College prior to the Christmas Residential Course, then monthly in the new year, culminating in the Easter Course, when the season end's.

Members are drawn from Brass Bands all over Cornwall, although any Brass Player is eligible, they do not have be a Band member to qualify.  The Cornwall Youth Brass Band exists to challenge and stretch the young players musically by playing music they may not encounter in their parent Bands and by engaging national names from the Brass Band world as Guest Conductors for the Residential Courses.

These Guest Conductors continue the work done at the monthly rehearsals by the team of local Tutors. Many of the local Tutors, all Conductors and players of Cornish Bands, have themselves been members of the Cornwall Youth Band in the past.  They are happy to put something back into the Band which gave them such memorable musical experiences in their formative years.

The Musical Advisor of the Band is the internationally known Composer and Adjudicator Dr Goff Richards, himself a Trombone player with the Band on their first course.  The list of visiting Guest Conductors reads like a Who's Who of the Brass Band World over the last forty years and many of the members have gone on to become professional Brass Players or Teachers.

The Band which is Affiliated to The Cornwall County Music Service is financially self supporting, the Members paying an annual fee and the cost of each Residential Course. For details of membership please contact the Secretary.

Secretary:- PHILLIP HUNT 12 Longmeadow Road Saltash Cornwall PL12 6DW. 
Tel. 01752 843919 
E Mail  brassmanpgh@uwclub.net