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Welcome to the home page of Iain Culross. Iain, originally from Dundee in Scotland, has always had a passion for playing both cornet and trumpet. Iain is the principal cornet player with Leyland Band.<\/a> He is also in demand as a brass teacher, including tutoring at the National Youth Brass Band<\/a> and (previously) National Youth Brass Band of Scotland Summer courses.<\/p>\n

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Born in 1986, by the age of seventeen, Iain had already gained a second performing diploma with distinction and played principal cornet for several brass bands including\u00a0Boness and Carriden Band,\u00a0Clackmannan & District Brass Band, Tullis Russell Mills Band and\u00a0Dundee Instrumental Band. He also holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in Music as well as an M.A. in Music Performance from\u00a0Salford University.<\/a><\/p>\n

Iain has travelled internationally giving master classes and appearing as both guest soloist and conductor with various bands. He has also spent several years as principal cornet of Grimethorpe Colliery Band<\/a>. Earlier appointments as a principal cornet player have been with the Fairey Band<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Sellers International Band<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0YBS Band\u00a0(now Hammonds Saltaire<\/a>), as well as\u00a0standing in at\u00a0Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band<\/a>\u00a0for the 2006 Yorkshire regional championship while Kirsty Abbots was on maternity leave. Before leaving Scotland to attend university, Iain played for\u00a0Unison Kinneil Band<\/a>\u00a0based in Bo’ness.<\/p>\n

During his early years as a cornet player, Iain\u00a0also played repiano cornet with\u00a0Bon Accord Silver Band<\/a>\u00a0(Aberdeen) and the Scottish Co-op bands as well as being a member of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland (NYBBS) main band since the age of eleven. His final couple of years with NYBBS were as principal cornet, his career there finishing on a high note with a tour of Japan.<\/p>\n

Now you’re here, have a look round the site – you’ll see there are links above to pages giving more details about Iain’s background, achievements and influences. Most of all, thanks for taking the time to stop by and visit this site!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the home page of Iain Culross. Iain, originally from Dundee in Scotland, has always had a passion for playing both cornet and trumpet. Iain is the principal cornet player with Leyland Band. He is also in demand as a brass teacher, including tutoring at the National Youth Brass Band and (previously) National Youth … Continue reading “Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brassnet.co.uk\/idc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}