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He is a trumpeter, conductor, composer, bandleader and
teacher born in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England. Starting out his
career with performing in brass bands in the 1970s and being a winning
musician in band competitions such as the Rothman's Contest and the Granada
Entertainment Contest on several occasions. He would soon be heard with ensembles such as the London
Sinfonietta, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble,
as the Principal Trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as being
one of its directors and Chairman, and was a founder of the Wren Orchestra,
who were closely associated with Londons Capital Radio for over a
decade. Concentrating on the
music of brass bands, and founding the Howard Snell Brass, his name has become
much recognised in. In 1986 he
went to Norway and began working with the Norwegian brass band
Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag and made such an impact with them that he led
them to winning several competitions that had always previously been won by
British bands. He also later
led the CWS Glasgow, the Black Dye Band and Desford Colliery band, The
Britannia Building Society Brass Band , The Brass Band of Battle Creek and
several others. Never a
stranger to the recording studio he can be heard on his Howard Snell Brass Premiere,
King's Messenger and 20 Supreme Years with the
Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag, Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery
Tunes and Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris by the
London Symphony Orchestra, Modern Brass, Baroque Brass, Classics for
Brass and Fanfare with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Contrast
of Trumpets with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Leopold Stokowski:
The Decca Years 1965-1972. As an author he has published his book The Trumpet
with three others yet to write at his new home on the Isle of Man, England,
and as a teacher he has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester.
Sources:
http://www.4barsrest.com/articles/2001/art027.asp
http://www.ebml.no/index.php?pid=5.2
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trumpet-Its-Practice-Performance/dp/1905203276
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Snell/a/Snell.htm
http://www.euphonium.net/products/CDs/20Supreme/supreme.htm
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http://www.vinylrevival.com/lists/classical.shtml
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