Special Events

Event

Title:: Band Open Rehearsal
When:: Thursday 02 July 08.00 PM - 10.00 PM
Where:: The Salvation Army Hall - Chelmsford
Category:: Special Events

Description

Chelmsford Salvation Army Band is pleased to announce the visit of Dr Stephen Cobb to lead their rehearsal at The Salvation Army hall, Baddow Road on Thursday 2nd July at 8.00pm.

This is an open rehearsal that anyone can attend to watch one of the world's foremost conductors put the band through its paces. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided afterwards.

Please encourage any brass band fans you know to come along.

All are welcome.

Biographical Notes on Stephen Cobb. Stephen Cobb became bandmaster of The International Staff Band in 1994. In that position he has ably followed some of The Salvation Army's most famous conductors.

As Bandmaster of the Hendon Corps Band and The International Staff Band, Stephen has achieved the highest standards of musicianship and musical ministry, providing outstanding models for the worldwide Salvation Army musical fellowship. Recordings, concerts, and international tours by these two groups have received the highest critical praise and affirmation.

Since his appointment, Stephen has led The International Staff Band through an exciting period of innovation that has seen the band’s profile in the wider brass band movement significantly raised. Appearances in the Gala Concert following the National Brass Band Championships and other shared concert and recording projects with both the Black Dyke Band and the Cory Band have been rewarding and stimulating.

A music educator by profession and training (his initial degrees the MA and BA (Hons) Cert-Ed), in July 2006 Stephen completed the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, in instrumental conducting, at the University of Salford.

Since April 2001, Stephen has been serving as Territorial Music Director for the United Kingdom Territory, overseeing all aspects of Salvation Army musical activity. Prior to this appointment, the first non-clergy member to hold the prestigious position, he worked as the Territorial Bandmaster for the United Kingdom Territory with the Republic of Ireland.

His innovative leadership in Salvation Army music has brought about a renewed vigour to that great musical tradition, marked symbolically by the establishment of the Territorial Youth Band (directed by Dr. Stephen Cobb), a group made up of the finest young players in the territory.

Stephen Cobb’s initial reputation was secured as a cornet soloist, both at Hendon and in The International Staff Band, having come from a family of talented bandmasters and soloists. He has passed on that legacy to his own sons, who have both proved to be outstanding cornetists in their own right.