The Corps Headquarters is based at Kneller Hall in Twickenham, which has been the home of military music since 1857. Each Army band is affiliated to a Regiment, a group of Regiments or to a Corps. The British Army pays musicians to do their learning, to standards as high as high as any college in the world and it offers a full time salaried and pensionable career. The Army teaches and uses all the instruments in the symphonic wind band, including strings and harp. Harmony, orchestration and conducting are taught as well as and management of an orchestra and repertoire.
Bands perform at indoor and outdoor concerts, social engagements and on tour anywhere in the world.
An Army musician is paid to learn and paid to gain experience of an unrivalled breadth of performance throughout their careers. When a musician arrives in their band, they will be under the band s Director of Music and Bandmaster who will ensure that on the job learning continues and that the young musician receives all the necessary training to fully equip them for promotion and career advancement. Promotion, as in all walks of life, depends on talent, leadership qualities and the willingness to accept responsibility for others. The Army is not a mantrap and you do not need to be in for life.