OUR MEMBERS
We have a wide range of enthusiastic band members. Meet a few of them!
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.
Committee Member, Flute
Rose Moorse
Rose took up music as an adult having had no opportunity to learn a musical instrument as a child apart from descant recorder at primary school. She picked up the recorder again in her twenties, learned treble and bass and played in various ensembles – even a recorder orchestra. This enthused her to branch out and learn the piano and later the flute which has remained her preferred instrument. She joined her first concert band in her thirties and loved the variety of music available. She now plays in two concert bands one of which is the Middlesex Yeomanry.