{"id":13,"date":"2016-09-17T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:41:47","slug":"musical-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/the-band\/musical-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"833\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2-833x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2-833x1024.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2-1250x1536.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-2.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The band\u2019s Musical Director is Dr. Graham Brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailing from Wrexham, Graham learned the ropes of banding in the Wrexham county schools band, Llay Welfare Band and Llangollen Silver Band, before competing at the highest levels with Wrexham Brass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He first came to Aberystwyth as a Biochemistry student in 2005 and has been a stalwart of the horn section (and regular soloist with the band) since then. Over the years Graham has put in stints as band Secretary, Librarian and Deputy MD, before being promoted to Musical Director in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"467\" height=\"863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-1.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Graham-1-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Graham leads a busy musical life as he continues to lead the (French) horn sections in Aberystwyth&#8217;s Philomusica and the University Concert Band. An enthusiastic fan of all kinds of music, Graham hopes to organise varied programs covering all kinds of music &#8211; from traditional marches to big band-style jazz; from classical transcriptions and original works for band to rock and roll and pop!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band\u2019s Musical Director is Dr. Graham Brand. Hailing from Wrexham, Graham learned the ropes of banding in the Wrexham county schools band, Llay Welfare Band and Llangollen Silver Band, before competing at the highest levels with Wrexham Brass. He first came to Aberystwyth as a Biochemistry student in 2005 and has been a stalwart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2587,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7Votx-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/2591"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}