Welcome to Brecon Town Concert Band
The Musical Director

David Jones
Email : conductorbtcb@aol.com  
Tele :  07779 390954

My musical 'career' began when I was just 5 years old, when encouraged by my grandmother, I began to learn the piano. Attending Brecon Boys Grammer School as it was known then, like most others being introduced to music in school I learnt the recorder and followed that with the flute. One of my first teachers was a local army officer, Sergeant Kenny, based then at the Cwrt y Gollen.

My early musical influences were headed by that grand old band, Jethro Tull, and so an interest in rock and pop was also born - when the school orchestra was tuning up, I was usually playing the latest Tull music. By self profession, I was a mean piano player in the early days, and was a Beethoven look-a-like, especially with my long hair :o) Another trait of the great Beethoven - his madness in later life - is another of my life's traits today !! The years following, I self taught myself to play classical guitar ( not very classically ! ) and played in a number of 'heavy' rock groups in and around the area, either on guitar or bass guitar.

I initially joined Brecon Town Concert Band way back in 1967 - it lasted for a whole 6 weeks ! then joined the band again a few years later. I have worked my way through playing flute, bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, euphonium, Bb & Eb bass amongst others. I'm sure one of these days I will pick up an instrument that I can actually play !!

I became the Musical Director of the band in 1995, though if you asked any band member, they would say it felt like a lifetime not just 7 years !

I have a very simple outlook on music - whilst wishing to play to as best a standard as possible with the band, I believe that playing music should be for fun and recreation, and not just for educational purposes. The band is a mix of people from all walks of life, and age ranges, and has a real community and family feel about it, which is exactly how I want it to be. That feeling has always remained with me as regards to making music - you should have seen the look on my old Headmasters face when a group of us long haired 6th formers got up to perform a recorder quintet in one the school's annual concerts !