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Stan Burns is a professional musician who honed his skills
in the regimental bands of the Green Howards and the Grenadier
Guards where he led the regimental dance bands and played
at investitures at Buckingham Palace. After leaving the
army as an A1 musician and as a qualified music teacher
he completed his studies with two years at the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama which enabled him to teach at
schools. He has taught in Essex
and East London at schools such as the renowned Coopers
Company and Coborn School in Upminster and at Five Elms
School in Dagenham. He also worked with the London Borough
of Barking's Saturday morning music school to teaching
clarinet and saxophone to Grade 8 level and above and
helped form the Schools Big Band which featured children
aged from 7 to 18.
He has played as a session musician,
has toured with the big bands and featured in TV and
radio music productions.
In 1990 after coming “off the road”
Stan set up his own music school and in 2000 moved to
the private studio in Rainham with the aim to extend
the teaching possibilities and to apply his own unique
style to learning to master clarinet and sax. |
