Royal Marines visit Wind Band

We were delighted to welcome back to school this week our former music students, Ruth Tarr and Jodie Giles, from the Royal Marines Band Service. Ruth has just passed through the RM School of Music (having studied violin for 4 years at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire) and joins the Plymouth band in a few weeks as solo violinist and also saxophonist. Jodie joined up in September and, having just completed her basic Marines training, is at the School of Music and has just started learning the oboe  –  in 2 months she has gone from complete beginner to Grade 5 standard!

Ruth very kindly took Sax Ensemble yesterday and String Ensemble today, passing on some really good advice to our players. Both Ruth and Jodie played with Wind band and gave a short presentation about the Band Service as well as taking questions from students after the rehearsal. Hopefully we will see more of the band service very shortly!!!

ruth & jodie

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