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Concert Band Director
ANTHONY HOUGHTON
Anthony Houghton was born in Warrington and spent a happy childhood in the
Lincolnshire countryside near Grimsby where he attended the Choir School, was a
member of the Parish Church Choir and played Clarinet with the Youth Orchestra.
After studying at the Royal Manchester College of Music (forerunner of the RNCM)
he settled in Manchester working as a freelance Clarinettist and Saxophonist.
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A recitalist, orchestral and session player he was Principal Clarinet of the
Northern Ballet Theatre and Manchester Camerata Orchestras for many years and
played regularly with the Hall
é, BBC, Opera North and many other orchestras in England and Scotland. A founder
member of the English Saxophone Quartet, he is now Clarinettist with the Lanner
Players and the Cam
æraderie Wind Trio.
Anthony's playing career has been complemented by his work in education and he
is Instrumental Tutor and Ensemble Director at Sheffield University, where he
is also Conductor of the
Wind Orchestra (SUWO), and at Manchester Grammar School. After a long professional association with
the Trafford Youth Orchestras as wind tutor and conductor, he founded and
directed its Concert Band (TYCB). In May 2002 he took the SUWO to Belgium for a
very successful Concert Tour, which was to prove to be the beginning of an
ongoing yearly tradition that has taken the Wind Orchestra to many European
destinations and as Conductor of TYCB he has directed concerts in the
Bridgewater Hall, the Lowry Centre, Westminster Abbey and in France and
Germany.
For many years he has been involved with enabling amateur ensemble participation
at many levels and is on the executive of the national symphonic band
organization, the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles
(BASBWE).
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