OUR MEMBERS
We have a wide range of enthusiastic band members. Meet a few of them!
Musical Director
Andrew Wilson
Andrew was born in Epsom, and his mother was a professional singer who was a member of the chorus at the BBC Television Theatre at Shepherds Bush for many years. Andrew grew up with the sound of music always evident.
As a tuba player, Andrew has played for a number of brass bands and concert bands in the London and South England area. He is one of the few players who has competed in all five sections of the brass band competitive system, and has won honours at full band, quartet, duet and solo levels.
Andrew is a qualified music teacher, and has been Musical Director of Cranleigh Youth Concert Band and also the Epsom Children’s Orchestra, a post he held for 12 years. He also ran the Epsom & Ewell Silver Band's training band.
Andrew became MD at Mole Valley Silver Band, based in Leatherhead, a post he has held since 2003, and he is also MD of the Fitznell’s Concert Band. He also created Tubas In Trafalgar, an ensemble of tubas and euphoniums who met up in Trafalgar Square over the Christmas period to raise money for Cancer Research.
Andrew first appeared at the Middlesex Yeomanry in 2023 when he was invited to conduct the band when the resident MD was absent. He took the role of MD full time in the autumn of 2024.
Band Committee Chair
Judy Morrison
Judy played classical piano to grade 8 at school but took degrees in mathematics.
She took up the clarinet in her mid thirties while still teaching maths and played a great deal of classical chamber music.
She took up the clarinet in her mid thirties while still teaching maths and played a great deal of classical chamber music.
Band President
Anthony (Tony) Rose
Anthony joined 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Squadron based in Harrow, Middlesex, part of 31 Signal Regiment TAVR in 1984 as a 2nd Lieutenant in charge of a Radio Relay UHF G Troop.
After various posting within our Regimental squadrons, 41 (Princess Louise Kensingtons) Squadron in charge of HF J Troop in Coulsdon, 83 Squadron managing Radio Relay UHF A Troop in Wandsworth, he finally returned to 47 (MDX YEO) Squadron, Captain as the Squadron Second-in-Command.
Since leaving the Regiment, Anthony is a regular member of the Middlesex Yeomanry Association and represents the Band at Middlesex Yeomanry Association dinners and events.
After various posting within our Regimental squadrons, 41 (Princess Louise Kensingtons) Squadron in charge of HF J Troop in Coulsdon, 83 Squadron managing Radio Relay UHF A Troop in Wandsworth, he finally returned to 47 (MDX YEO) Squadron, Captain as the Squadron Second-in-Command.
Since leaving the Regiment, Anthony is a regular member of the Middlesex Yeomanry Association and represents the Band at Middlesex Yeomanry Association dinners and events.
Vice President, Deputy Conductor, Assistant Librarian
Michael Robinson
Michael spent 22 years in the Royal Air Force, with most of his time in the Central Band of the Royal Air Force.
He was Musical Director of the Midddlesex Yeomanry Concert Band for 34 years and continues to support the band with his knowledge and experience.
#1 Alto Sax, Publicity & Organisation
Alan Perry
Alan always had a love of music. His father was a pianist in Aylesbury with local Dance Bands and passed on his enthusiasm. Alan learned to play piano but wasn’t at that time classically inclined and has never taken academic grades.
On acquiring a house, one of the first purchases was a piano and he studied playing it at night school for 20 years. The birth of a son in 1976 prompted him to buy a clarinet and on his son reaching an age where his cornet playing resulted in an invite to join the local Scout and Guide Band, dad was asked to join as a helper.
Alan bought an alto sax and joined a night school big band this subsequently became a rehearsal Big Band which he has run since 2006.
At a Scout and Guide band reunion, Alan was told about the Middlesex Yeomanry Association band. He was interested and subsequently went along to a rehearsal in Nov 2002, enjoyed it and has played with it since, mostly as 1st Alto Sax.
Clarinet
Hannah Tankaria
Hannah began playing clarinet at 9 years old and joined the band as a young teenager after attending a concert. After taking a break to go to university, where she was the Treasurer for her university Jazz Orchestra, Hannah reconnected with the band when Michael Robinson retired as Conductor and she attended his last concert. Having finished her studies, Hannah has now returned to play in the MYCB!