Performance by design
Tom is Principal Cornet of the world famous Cory Band and is well-known as a brilliant cornet soloist. He began learning the cornet at the age of nine and joined his local brass band, Stannington. As an early teenager he joined Barnsley Building Society Band and quickly ascended to the position of principal cornet.
Tom’s first taste of playing ‘top man’ in a championship section band happened a few years later, aged fifteen,
James Stretton studied trumpet at Trinity College of Music and with James Austin in Houston, Texas, and has performed with many leading British orchestras. He has toured widely with the Royal Shakespeare Company and also works extensively as a music examiner for Trinity College, London. Formerly he was Head of Instrumental Music at Harrogate Ladies’ College. With the trumpet he has enjoyed a chameleon-like career playing with symphony orchestras, pop bands, brass bands, early music ensembles and big bands.
Hua Li graduated with Distinction from the Central Conservatoire in Beijing in 2006. In the same year he was awarded a full scholarship plus living expenses by the CHEAR Charitable Trust to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK, where he studied with James Watson, Mark David and Rod Franks. In 2009 Hua graduated from the Academy, with a Distinction in his Master of Music degree and the LRAM teaching diploma. During his studying in the UK,
One of today’s most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton’s band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton’s quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D’Rivera’s clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz’s greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Scott has been heard numerous times on film,
Raquel Rodriquez is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky. At NKU, Raquel is the Coordinator of Brass Studies, teaches applied trumpet, performs with the NKU Faculty Brass, and is the director of the Trumpet Ensemble and Concert Band. She is the recipient of the University Teacher of the Year (2013-14) for District VI (KMEA). In 2013, she hosted the Ohio Chapter Meeting of the International Trumpet Guild at NKU.
