Sharon’s
first band was Long
Eaton Silver Prize
It's also her current. Holding National Finals Cup 3rd Section Championship
2006 , Sharon Conducted.
And above, here's the winning band...
LESPB Area Champions 3rd Section March 2006
But back to the plot...
Bestwood Black Diamonds were her second band.
Bestwood
Bestwood in 1980's
Riddings, Huthwaite, Ransomes, William Davies,
Nottingham City Transport, Kirkby Colliery.....
Sharon at Kirkby
Ibstock Brick Brass, Newstead Welfare, Nottingham City Transport (again) and Thoresby Colliery
Thoresby Colliery
Sharon has also guested for many other bands in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
Sharon was also the principal cornet of the Nottingham Concert
Band when they won the Concert Band World Championships in
Vienna in 1981.
During this time, Sharon has played for many of the finest
conductors, including Lt.-Col. George Evans of Kneller Hall,
Major Peter Parkes,
Major Ian McElligott, David James, John Hudson, Andrew Duncan,
Melvin White,
Martin Heartfield and Stan Lippeart
Newstead at Buxton contest, 2000
Ibstock at Royal Albert Hall 2000
BRASS BANDS I HAVE CONDUCTED
Long Eaton Silver Prize Band and Training Band (pictured below)...
Long Eaton Silver Prize 2000
3rd Section National Champions 2006, Long Eaton Silver Prize
Long Eaton Training Band 2004
... are Sharon’s first appointments as a musical director, she has conducted many other brass bands including:
Kirkby Colliery Welfare as band master and deputy conductor
Long Eaton Silver Prize
Long Eaton Silver Prize Training Band
Melbourne Town
Rolls-Royce (Derby
Shirland as guest conductor
Riddings Band as guest conductor
Snibston and Desford B as guest conductor
Newstead Welfare Band at a NABBC seminar
Sharon has enjoyed unprecedented success with Long Eaton, taking the band from the bottom of the fourth section to two successive national finals and promotion to the second section, winning numerous prizes during this time.
Sharon has been a member of the National
Association of Brass Band Conductors since 1999.
BIG/DANCE BANDS
Sharon started playing in dance bands at the age of 32 once
she had passed her driving test! Her first dance band was
her friend
Graham Jacklin’s JB Dance Band (pictured)
followed by Ockbrook Big Band (where Sid Bland played) before forming her own dance band Anything Blows
ORCHESTRAS
Sharon has played with the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra,
the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra and the Derby
Concert Orchestra,
where she
played in a concert with Nigel Kennedy (and still has
the programme to prove it!)
Sharon has also played with Nottingham Brass Quintet
and with various pit orchestras whilst performing shows.
VENUES
I have played in lots of prestigious venues including RAH,Royal Festival hall London, St James Park, South Bank, Wembley Arena, Birmingham NEC, Cardiff ??,
Manchester free trade hall. Hammersmith town hall. The Musicverein in Vienna, the Albert hall in Nottingham and also on the opening of the royal concert centre in Nottm.Derby and Nottm playhouses, Derby assembly rooms De Mont ford hall Caird Hall Dundee and the Riviera Centre in Torquay etc etc
I have also played along a canal tow path for a “duck race” and on the back of a lorry! So all in all the whole spectrum of venues!