Ted Howard
Hon. Secretary
Ted has had a great deal of experience with all types and styles of music. He has played in brass bands, army bands, orchestras, dance bands, jazz bands and German oom-pah bands. He has conducted army bands, brass bands and amateur theatre productions.
Ted
spent twenty years in the army serving with the bands of the 3rd Battalion, The
Royal Anglian Regiment and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Band Corps.
More recently he has been involved in conducting brass bands and has conducted the RICS band (later renamed as Watership Brass), Basingstoke Silver Band, Cosham Concert Brass (now Denmead Brass), New Forest Brass, Blendworth Brass Band and the Cobham Band.
In the period that he was with Cosham Concert Brass he brought them from a non-contesting band to a nationally graded second section band and a championship section graded band within the Wessex Brass Band Association. Also he took Cosham Concert Brass to the national finals in both the fourth and third sections on three occasions.
Ted now has a full time job as a Facilities Infrastructure Manager with an ICT company but devotes a great deal of his leisure time to brass bands and other musical activities.