{"id":33,"date":"2022-08-31T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:34:00","slug":"meet-our-musical-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=33","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Musical Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Morrish-2022-fit-260x288-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7506775067750677;width:296px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Morrish-2022-fit-260x288-1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Morrish-2022-fit-260x288-1-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Jeremy-Morrish-2022-fit-260x288-1-300x332.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremy Morrish ARCM MBII,  Musical Director<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremy Morrish has had a distinguished and varied musical career. A talented multi-instrumentalist from a young age, Jeremy earned a music scholarship with Buckinghamshire County Music Services before joining The Band of the Life Guards, part of the Household Cavalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his service with the Life Guards, Jeremy toured many parts of the world as a state trumpeter.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Jeremy also provided a music arrangement for the Queen&#8217;s Birthday Parade, Trooping the Colour in 1992, which was performed by the massed bands of the Household Cavalry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a dedicated teacher and conductor, Jeremy is also Musical Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokingwindorchestra.org.uk\/\">Woking Wind Concert <\/a>, a role he took up in 2007. Upon his late father Ian Morrish&#8217;s retirement , he has since taken up the Musical Director posts of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lydiansingersfarnborough.co.uk\/index.php\"> Lydian Singers <\/a>. Ian was the previous conductor of the Alton Concert Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/\">Alton Concert Band<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Morrish ARCM MBII, Musical Director Jeremy Morrish has had a distinguished and varied musical career. A talented multi-instrumentalist from a young age, Jeremy earned a music scholarship with Buckinghamshire County Music Services before joining The Band of the Life Guards, part of the Household Cavalry. During his service with the Life Guards, Jeremy toured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}