Mark Armstrong

Newly appointed as the Musical Director for NYJO in April 2010 having taken the rehearsals and written for the band for about ten years, and before that being a member of the trumpet section I believe that makes me the second longest serving NYJO1 person after Bill Ashton.

Mark Horton

April 17, 2010 by admin

Miles Ashton

NYJO sound engineer.

Paul Eshelby

NYJO2 ….more to follow.

Simon Purcell

Simon Purcell, jazz musician and educator, best known as Head of Jazz at Trinity College of Music and member of the Pop and Jazz Steering Group for the Association of European Conservatoires. Still active as a performer, he has appeared with Red Rodney, Kenny Wheeler, Eddie Henderson, Stan Sulzman, Jean Toussaint and Julian Arguelles. His current quintet features Julian Siegel, Chris Batchelor and Gene Calderazzo.

Steve Titchener

I have been involved with NYJO since 1978, firstly as a trumpet player, then as a composer/arranger (writing many charts for the band that have been played and recorded over the years) and I have been Assistant Musical Director for the last eight years. I studied jazz at Leeds College of Music, The Guildhall School Of Music & completed a Masters Degree in jazz composition at The Manhattan School Of Music in New York City. While in New York, I had my own Big Band and was lucky enough to play with some of the best jazz musicians in New York including: Paquito D’Rivera, Tony Kadleck, Bob Mintzer, Chris Potter, Ryan Kisor, Ed Shaughnessy, Lew Soloff, Scott Wendholt to name but a few. On this side of the Atlantic I have played in many shows and bands including The Syd Lawrence Orchestra & Shirley Bassey.

I am currently Head Of Brass & Music Technology at Christ’s Hospital School just outside Horsham in Sussex.