Chair – Cathy O’Carroll
chairperson@windbandassociation.co.uk
Cathy is a keen concert band clarinet/saxophone player who started playing the clarinet at junior school. Taking a career outside of music, amateur and community music plays a large part in how Cathy spends her free time. She was Chair for Bagshot Concert band for nearly two decades but now enjoys just playing in a number of bands in the South.
Secretary – Jean Aldred
secretary@windbandassociation.co.uk
Jean is currently the Treasurer of the Capital Concert Band in Edinburgh and a Clarinet & Saxophone player. She has been an ardent amateur musician for many years. Jean is a chartered banker and a director of a music publishing company.
Treasurer – Sue Parry
treasurer@windbandassociation.co.uk
Sue has been playing Clarinet since junior school and was a member of Bristol Concert Wind Band for 15 years. She has been Band Secretary & Librarian of the band at various times. Sue is a chartered accountant and runs her own accountancy firm in Bristol.
Musical Director – Andrew Mackereth
Andrew studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire before entering the teaching profession as a Music and then Headteacher.
Andrew has more than 500 compositions in print and is currently the Bandmaster of the Nuneaton Salvation Army Band, The Salvation Army Symphonic Wind Ensemble, The Glebe Symphonic Wind Orchestra and The Alumni Symphonic Wind Orchestra.
Marketing – Maili Konczak
maili@windbandassociation.co.uk
Maili is primarily a mum to two boys. Playing flute & piccolo in a Concert Band is her escape from real life & she loves the experience of playing with others – more so than playing alone at home. She is editor of the WBA newsletter and the website, so she looks forward to hearing from you with articles to fill the pages.
Regional Representatives
Highlands & Islands of Scotland – Lynne Anstice Brown
South East Scotland – Glen Driver
North West England – Edward Milner
nwengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
Edward is a retired woodwind teacher and conductor for Cheshire and Flintshire North Wales. He started his Army career with the Royal Artillery Band and attended the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall in 1968. He spent six years as a commissioned officer with the RAF then 10 years with the Liverpool TA band. Edward is still playing music with the Liverpool Police Band and Chester Wind Band.
North East England – Gillian Anderson
neengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
Gillian was a horn player, from the age of 7, taught by her dad, a Salvation Army band leader. In 1983 having become a secondary class music teacher then moving to a primary school in London, her days as a brass player seemed over.
It was not until 2018 that she bought a French Horn to see whether she could still play and went along to a community band, then a local Symphony Orchestra. The encouragement of the conductor and his wife rapidly built her confidence and she made the decision to stand down from roles as MD for musical theatre and focus on banding.
West Yorkshire – Kate Plant
westyorkengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
Kate has played French Horn since the age of 9, at which point it was bigger than she was. After joining her first “grown up” band at 14, she has played in wind bands in Durham, Surrey and West Yorkshire where she currently plays with Two Rivers and White Rose Concert Bands.
West Midlands – Caroline Price
westmidengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
Caroline has been attending the Wind Band Festival for 10 years. She has been playing the flute for 30 years and achieved a distinction in her ARSM performance diploma in 2019. She has also set up her own wind orchestra in her area.
South West England – Kathryn Robinson
swengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
You’ll find Kathryn in the oboe section of the band.
South East England – Lara Cawthra
seengland@windbandassociation.co.uk
Lara learnt to play tenor horn in local brass bands as well as learning the piano in her primary school years, in Australia. Her academic studies meant that she had no time for music and put them aside whilst she qualified as a Chiropractor.
Lara came to the UK for travel and then work. Missing music, she joined Bourne Concert Band (BCB) after not having played for many years – at first playing the tenor horn and then switching to french horn. She currently enjoys playing with BCB, Surrey Police Band and other bands in the south.
Honorary Members
Honorary President – Kevin G. Lamb
Kevin is a professional musician who has conducted many of the UK’s top Wind Bands and Brass Bands. He was formerly Head of School and Chief Instructor at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. Kevin is also a well-known composer & arranger.
In 2007 he composed and conducted the music for the State Opening and Closing of the Scottish Parliament in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.