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Keith Terrett

Keith Terrett composer / arranger

Keith Terrett (b.1956), is a composer, arranger, conductor, band trainer, IB music educator (PYP, MYP & DP) & instrumental teacher of international standing, trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist & multi-instrumentalist born in London.

Keith joined the British Army at the age of fifteen, studying the Bb Cornet at the Army band school in Bovington, Dorset.

At 18 he became the principal Cornet/Trumpet to the «Band of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars» (a cavalry regiment), stationed in West Germany. He has toured the USA, Canada, Northern Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland during his military service.

During his Bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Keith won the prestigious Commandant's prize for the best quick march; now published in the USA by Echelon Publishers in Texas.

After retiring from the army in 1990, Keith took up a position as «Head of Instrumental Music» and «Band Director» to school's in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies.

From 1993-4, Keith was a «Lecturer in Music» at the «Faculty of Creative Arts, »University of Papua New Guinea», and from 1994-99, «Principal Director of Music» and «Chief Instructor» at the rank of Superintendent/Lt. Colonel, to the world famous «Band of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary»; touring Australia and Japan in 1996 & 1998; raising money for the Red Cross.

While in Papua New Guinea, Keith arranged many local folk pieces, leaving a musical legacy behind when he left. Many of these works are now published in Holland, the UK and USA.

After a brief spell teaching in the United Kingdom in 1999, Keith's interest in ethnomusicology took him to the Middle East for a year, where he taught classroom music in an international school in Kuwait City; giving him a chance to study Arabic music in detail.

From 2001-2006, Keith taught instrumental music in a specialist music school in Kviteseid, Southern Norway; where he was also the town band director of Kviteseid hornmusikk. During his time in Norway, Keith was invited to guest conduct His Majesty's King's Guard Band in Oslo, and ran music seminars with the Norwegian composer Idar Torskangerpoll. Keith had his first piece of music published in Oslo with Musikk Huset AS; entitled The Gypsy Violinist in New Orleans.

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Homage - Keith Terrett

Homage

Keith Terrett
Originale Literatur

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El Matador - Keith Terrett

El Matador

Keith Terrett
Unterhaltungsmusik

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The Gypsy Mallet Player in New Orleans - Keith Terrett

The Gypsy Mallet Player in New Orleans

Keith Terrett
Solo (Instrumental) und Orchesterformation

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A Hornist goes Ballroom dancing - Keith Terrett

A Hornist goes Ballroom dancing

Keith Terrett
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