Keith Terrett
Keith Terrett, MMUS, FLCM (Hons), FVCM (Hons), FNMSM, FTCSM, BA Open (Hons), Dip Mus, LRAM, LTCL, ARCM, ALCM, BBCM, MCertNMSM. (b.1956), is a composer, arranger, conductor, band trainer, IB music educator (PYP, MYP & DP) & instrumental teacher of international standing, trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, anthemologist & multi-instrumentalist born in London.
Keith joined the British Army at the age of fifteen, studying the Bb Cornet at the Junior Leader's 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, and also it's the official march of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.
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 PNG Red Cross which was used in Aitape after the disaster.
While in Papua New Guinea, Keith arranged many local folk and rock 'n' roll pieces of music, leaving a musical legacy behind when he left. Many of these works are now published in Holland, the UK and USA. In PNG he collabotated with the late Buruka Tau & Ben Hakalitz, members of the Australian Rock Band Yothu Yindi.
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.
During his diverse career, he has performed with many artists and orchestras including Harry Mortimer, Martin Mailman, Kenny Baker, Don Lusher, Geoffrey Brand, Jesse Norman, Iona Brown, Engelbert Humperdink, Sir John Pritchard, London & BBC Concert & Symphony Orchestras and the Kneller Hall Band. He has even appeared as a trumpeter on «This is your Life» with Eamon Andrews for the 85th birthday of Sir George Solti! A highlight was his appearances for three consecutive years in the annual Christmas Bach Choir Concerts in the Albert Hall, with Sir David Valentine Willcocks, HRH The Duchess of Kent, the London Brass, as a member of the world famous Kneller Hall Fanfare Trumpet Team. In 1974, Keith performed for Henry Kissinger at the British Embassy in Washington He also performed during Friday Night is Music Night with the Kneller Hall Band. In Norway his flexible ''Jazz for 5'' is very popular. In 1974. Not bad for a lad from Exmouth, Devon!
His trumpet professor at Kneller Hall was the legendary Ian Mackintosh (son of the immortal Jack Mackintosh) Principal Trumpet of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. During his time at Kneller Hall, Keith had the opportunity to study all brass, woodwind and percussion instruments; under leading London players. In addition he studied conducting with Lt. Col. Duncan Beat, Frank Renton, orchestration with Lt. Col. Trevor Sharp, and harmony and composition with Professor Gordon Reynolds (Hampton Court Palace) Peter Byrne & Major Roger G. Swift. Keith has also studied jazz trumpet with Dick Pearce & Bobby Shew, and composition with Stanley Friedman, Professor Ian Higginson & Professor's Stewart Thompson, Michael Walsh & Elizabeth Stratford (Organist and Master of the Choristers of Arundel Cathedral).
Keith is an internationally acclaimed composer\arranger, writing in all genres from full orchestra, brass band, and concert/wind band, to music for string quartet, brass ensemble, saxophone group, clarinet choir, recorder consort, oboe consort, and even for the harmonica, steel pan and accordion! In 2010, he has become a composer for the Alfred Publishing company in the USA, with his best selling original composition for young symphonic band entitled ''Fallen Heroes''.
His music is published worldwide: England, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Norway.
A set of 30 national anthem arrangements by Keith Terrett will be released shortly on Nomad Player performed by L'orchestre national d'Île de France soon, during the process Keith worked with esteemed conductor Jonas Ehrler on the project.
Keith has studied with, and gained academic musical qualifications from the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, The Open University, Trinity College of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, London College of Music, the Bandsman's College of Music in Manchester, the Victoria College of Music and is currently in his second year of a Doctorate with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University in Florida.
Keith's version of the Ukrainian National Anthem has been performed by the New York & Czech Philharmonic & the Prague Philharmonic Choir, NVYO, UBC Symphony, FMSO, Western Austraialian Symphony, Andrei Bondarenko & the Orchestre National de France, Austin Civic, Las Vegas, UBC, San Antonio, Underwood, Olympia, Billings , Samohi Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Cardiff Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie and by a flash mob orchestra in Trafalgar Square in 2022 conducted by Petr Limonov, the Russian-British pianist and the Auburn University Band,the Angelica Women's Chamber Choir to name just a few!
Keith has a Master's Degree in sacred music composition awarded from the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University in April 2021, he studied under Professor Stewart Thompson (Principal at Victoria College of Music and Drama, London & Head of Music and Associate Professor of Sacred Music and Education at the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University.
As a conductor, band trainer, composer & arranger, Keith is in demand world-wide, and has guest conducted at band seminars in Norway & Malaysia. Keith is available for your next band seminar; book early to avoid disappointment!
Keith is currently 'Head of Performing Arts' & 'Director of Music' at Pathways School (Gurgaon) in India, where he has worked since 2010, both at Pathways Aravali campus, and since 2014 at the No 1 IB school in India namely ''Pathways'' Gurgaon.
Below is a link to some of his arrangements/compositions and live performances around the world as a conductor, composer, arranger and performer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPfAw0kNCWs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmK7FJGxbN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzluvVwpUtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmK7FJGxbN8&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA&index=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1BGj-g7jHg&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOUIedGZos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUP8J7rcg8&index=18&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKsZbGfqLE&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA&index=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUAmpm96AeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTAMCwqkUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYUFuElpIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAN4gWmqNF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07FaUpC7Rg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCz-qRUTUS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxEXZOCd9jg&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDa98j4y8A&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZPRKoQxkm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOkW271PfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4D9ak5G_CE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuS9gyFdok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SddDuJ2PEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sn7lIl4VCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAxNLTrCljE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVmU4wkkek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDaoD41MkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inezR8jr2pQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ye8sy7PR0
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