We’ve got some great speakers lined up for next year and I am really excited to announce that we will be kicking off 2014 with Tim Cooper, former Director of Music of The Band of The Blues and Royals.
Tim Cooper joined the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1977 as an oboist. In 1983, he became an instructor at The Prince of Wales’s Division School of Music. He was then selected for the Bandmasters’ course and on graduating from The Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, he was appointed Bandmaster of the Gordon Highlanders in Berlin. In 1994, he joined The Band of The Life Guards as Bandmaster and completed the five-month Household Cavalry equitation course. Tim was commissioned in 2000 and returned to the Prince of Wales’s Division as Director of Music of the Lucknow Band. He was appointed as Director of Music of The Band of The Blues and Royals, RHG/D in June 2007 and promoted to Major for the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Parade.
Since retiring in April 2011, Tim has started his own dog boarding and walking business on the south Sussex coast.