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Adam Roberts
Adam is a Composer and Brass Teacher based in Liverpool in the North West of England.
Adam has composed music for many ensembles such as the RLPO, The Sixteen
and various local community music groups. Currently he is working in Primary and
Secondary schools as a Brass Tutor. He is also working on a Windband composition for a
Secondary School. The objective of composing this work is to get the students involved
in the process. This will guide the compositions development over the next six months
and will hopefully produce a piece that represents the community and ethos of the school.

Anthony Houghton
Anthony was born in Warrington but spent his formative years in the Lincolnshire
countryside near Grimsby. After playing Clarinet with the Local Youth Orchestra, he went
on to study with Sydney Fell at the Royal Manchester College of Music (forerunner of
the RNCM) finally settling in Manchester to work as a freelance Musician. A recitalist,
orchestral and session player he was Principal Clarinet of the Northern Ballet Theatre
and Manchester Camerata Orchestras for many years.

Anthony’s playing career has been complemented by his work in education and he is
Instrumental Tutor at the Manchester Grammar School and for thirty years also tutor
and ensemble director at the Music Department of the University of Sheffield, where
he founded and conducted the University Wind Orchestra and was wind tutor with the
Trafford at Youth Orchestras founding and directing its Concert Band. As Conductor he
has led concerts in the Bridgewater Hall and the Lowry Centre in Manchester, Westminster
Abbey and the Actor’s Church, Covent Garden in London and in France, Belgium,
Holland, Malta, Spain, Germany and Latvia.

In addition to conducting the Sheffield University Wind Orchestra, Tony is conductor
of the Macclesfield Symphony Orchestra (KEMS) and founded its Community Concert
Band. He has premièred and commissioned many new works both for orchestra and
symphonic wind band and is priviledged to be active on the executive of the British
Association of Symphonic Band and Wind Ensembles (BASBWE), determined to help
the work of support and inspiriation for the future of wind music-making in this Country.
www.kems.org.uk

Bill Connor
Bill is Chairman of BASBWE, Chairman of the St Helens Music Services Merseyside,
a trustee with the Stephen Dodgson Charitable Trust, committee member of ECWO
(European Competition for Wind Orchestras), member of The Institute of Scurrilous
Scribblers (NW branch 1986 ), 3rd percussionist with the St Helens Sinfonietta, a
member of the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre Elders group, runs creative arts
workshops and writes music.

Jonathan Pippen
Jonathan is a freelance trombone player, conductor and teacher living in Buckinghamshire.
His career has seen him hold principal chairs in the Remix Ensemble, RAF Central
Band, Brighouse and Rastrick Band and in London’s West End where he was also an
assistant Musical Director. He has worked across Europe as soloist and was featured on
the BBC Radio programme Listen to the Band in this role no less than 6 times. He has
conducted at Abbey Road studios and Cadogan Hall and is currently Trombone Professor
at London College of Music.

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