Recruiting

The Band are always looking for talented musicians to join it's numbers. If this band has no vacancies then there may be a place for your talents in another of the 22 Regular Bands within the Corps.

It can be very difficult to make a professional career in music:

  • Getting on a course
  • Grants and money
  • Getting regular paid work or salaried job post college
  • A career as a soldier in the Army with your main employment as a musician is therefore worth thinking about

Good reasons for joining the Army as a musician are:

  • 800 plus musicians in the Corps of Army Music
  • 22 Bands in the Corps of Army Music + The Band of The Brigade of Gurkhas
  • Great travel opportunities
  • Fantastic sports and adventurous training
  • Live performance in some of the greatest venues all over the world
  • A structured career
  • Train and earn musical qualifications - Diplomas and a possible degree in music
  • Paid to perform music
  • Full Time salaried and pensionable career
  • Potential employment until age 55

The Corps of Army Music can accept all instrumentalists including:

  • Brass
  • Woodwind
  • Percussion
  • Piano/Keyboards
  • Strings
  • Guitars
  • Vocals

For further information and to discuss visiting this Band or any other in the Corps of Army Music, including attending 'Insight Courses'. please contact the Bandmaster:

Telephone: 0207 414 3266

Fax:           0207 414 3011

Email:  sgb@scotsguardsband.co.uk