Jeremy Morrish ARCM MBII, Musical Director
Jeremy has had a very distinguished musical career. He has been involved with music from an early age, and by the age of 10 was playing in several wind bands and orchestras on trumpet, trombone, euphonium, piano and violin. He was awarded a musical scholarship with Buckinghamshire County Music Services.
On leaving school, he joined The Band of the Life Guards, part of the Household Cavalry. While attending the Army’s Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, Jeremy also gained the A.R.C.M. performers’ diploma on euphonium – one of the first in the UK to achieve a distinction from the Royal College of Music.
During his service with the Life Guards, Jeremy toured many parts of the world as a state trumpeter. He played at many investitures at Buckingham Palace and sang for the Royal Family and their guests in the ballroom for the State Diplomatic Ball. Jeremy also provided a music arrangement for the Queen’s Birthday Parade, Trooping the Colour in 1992, which was performed by the massed bands of the Household Cavalry.
Since leaving the Guards with 15 years’ service Jeremy has enjoyed teaching and conducting.
Jeremy is also Musical Director of the Woking Wind Concert , a role he took up in 2007. Upon his father’s retirement , he has since taken up the Musical Director posts of the Lydian Singers and most recently become the newly appointed Musical Director of the Alton Concert Band.