
Stroud, United Kingdom
Very part time Muso these days. I attained Grade VIII (Associated School of Music)~ on trumpet when I was 15,having started out learning the cornet, which I played with Nailsworth Silver Band from the age of 6-10; I then joined the Gloucestershire Schools Orchestra and subsequently played principal trumpet with The Cam Brass Consort from age 13-16, and then with A levels and a spout of travelling with a short interlude between times spent abroad, I was reading Mechanical Engineering with Japanese at The University of Sheffield, but found studying formulae for thermodynamics and the like, to be far too mundane an endeavour to have my head in for the next three years, and so I decided to continue travelling, and subsequently bought myself a cheap trumpet in Prague where I busked with some Scotsmen, and some Czechs on Charles Bridge for a while; I also did a stint of Busking in Budapest. Thereafter, I continued travelling for a while, since when my musical forays have been sporadic...