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Musical
Director : Mel
Hopkin
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The Musical Director: Mel
Hopkin - First Musical Director: Brian
Long
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The Musical Director - Mel
Hopkin
He then joined the Horncastle Silver Band playing Solo Cornet. At the same time he was a founder member of Welland Brass - made up of members of many bands of the area. He returned to Spalding in 1984 and took up the Bass and was deputy conductor. He remained playing Bass until he was appointed Musical Director at Holbeach in 1997. He was appointed Musical Director of Spalding Youth Brass when they formed in 1989 and trained them to become East Anglian Youth Band champions in 1993, 1994 and 1995. He also had considerable success with Spalding Youth Brass in solo, duet and quartet contests.
He followed his father Jack when he joined the Spalding Band. Mel's own son, James, and daughter, Zoe, are both brass players. They were both members of the Spalding Band and Spalding Youth Brass; James now plays for Royal Spa Brass in Leamington Spa and his own children also play for them. Zoe is principal euphonium with Mel at the Holbeach Town Band.
Mel introduced Open Days and a Learn to Play week at the Holbeach Band. And he runs the band's Learner Group and Training Band and he runs Theory classes and individual training lessons - to date he has a 100% success rate in entering his students in music exam grades. Mel's musical interests are wide; he was Musical Director of the Spalding Grammar School Big Band for a number of years and a playing member (on Euphonium and Bass) of the school's concert band and brass ensemble until he retired in 2011. He is also an active committee member (and treasurer) of South Holland Concerts (bringing professional classical music to the area). Mel also enjoys computing in his spare time and he created and maintains this website. |
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Hopkin
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