Kevin Gibbs
Musical
Director
Born in South Wales, Kevin Gibbs already has an impressive
list of honours to his name having been a highly successful
Principal Trombone player, featured soloist and multiple
National Brass Band Championship winner with world famous
brass bands such as Brighouse and Rastrick, Williams Fairey
and Black Dyke Mills.
Kevin is currently a full time music teacher at Smithills
School in Bolton where he also directs the Senior Trombone
Ensemble in addition to tutoring the Trombone section of
the internationally acclaimed Senior Brass Band.
In 1998 Kevin moved to the legendary Black Dyke Mills Band
as Principal Trombone, yet again winning the Yorkshire Area
Contest (Montage). Subsequently appointed as a music
teacher to Towneley High School in Burnley, Kevin took a
break from Championship banding but became the highly
successful Musical Director of the Burnley Alliance and BMP
Europe Goodshaw bands. On returning to South Wales, Kevin
resumed his playing career as Principal Trombone with the
Thomas Coaches Mid-Rhondda Band and was duly awarded the
title of Best Soloist for the next two years at the Mine
Workers Eisteddfod and the West Wales Contests of 1999 and
2000.
In 2000 Kevin became Musical Director of the Newbridge and
Celynen Band during which time the band only failed to win
a top prize on one occasion in nine highly successful
contest appearances. In 2002 he accepted his current
teaching post at Smithills School, once more taking him
back to the North West and resulting in offers from many of
the very top bands in the area to return to Championship
Section playing. In January 2003 Kevin accepted the
position of Principal Trombone with the National Champion
Williams Fairey Band, although he first recorded a new solo
on CD with the Brighouse and Rastrick band. Having
qualified for the Royal Albert Hall 2003 National Finals
with Williams Fairey, Kevin once again took part in the
winning performance playing Variations on an Enigma. Having
changed its name to the Fairey (fp Music) Band, Kevin was a
featured soloist on the acclaimed CD Virtuosi before
leaving the band in 2004 and taking up the position of
Musical Director of the Flixton Band.
As a conductor, soloist and teacher, Kevin has performed
all over the World from Sweden to Switzerland and Germany
to New Zealand and Australia. He remains in constant demand
as a Trombone player and looks forward to many more highly
successful years as a conductor, player and teacher.
