1998

NIGEL SEAMAN (ARMCM ARNCM)

Nigel Seaman was born in Denbigh, North Wales and studied at the Royal Manchester and Royal Northern Colleges of Music. On graduating he moved to South Wales in 1975 to join the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera as Principal Tuba and two years later moved on to his present post as Principal Tuba with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Nigel also maintains a busy teaching schedule and has been tutor of tuba and brass studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff since 1977.

He has held a number of conducting appointments with all the top Welsh bands, including Cory, Parc and Dare and BTM and was Resident Conductor of Tredegar Town Band from 1994 to 97, arguably one of the band's most successful periods. During 1998 Nigel was Resident Conductor of the Flowers (Cheltenham) Band, one of the top West of England bands. In October 1999 he resumed his link with Tredegar Band, assisting them in their preparation for the National Brass Band Championships, where the band was awarded third prize.
He is also much in demand as a freelance conductor and adjudicator and is currently working with a number of bands in Wales and the West of England. These include Professional Musical Directorships with Thornbury and Markham and guest visits to Tredegar Town, Cwmaman, Yeovil Town and Aldbourne. Recently he has been invited to work with the Desford Band in Concert and CD recording ventures. During the last 25 years has directed over 260 contest performances and many more concert appearances with over thirty different bands.
For 10 years Nigel presented the popular 'Sounding Brass' programme on BBC Radio Wales and during his professional playing and conducting career he has travelled extensively in the UK and undertaken tours of every major European country as well as Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Russia, Japan and the USA.

Nigel Seaman was born in Denbigh, North Wales and studied at the Royal Manchester and Royal Northern Colleges of Music. On graduating he moved to South Wales in 1975 to join the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera as Principal Tuba and two years later moved on to his present post as Principal Tuba with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Nigel also maintains a busy teaching schedule and has been tutor of tuba and brass studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff since 1977.
	He has held a number of conducting appointments with all the top Welsh bands, including Cory, Parc and Dare and BTM and was Resident Conductor of Tredegar Town Band from 1994 to 97, arguably one of the band's most successful periods. During 1998 Nigel was Resident Conductor of the Flowers (Cheltenham) Band, one of the top West of England bands. In October 1999 he resumed his link with Tredegar Band, assisting them in their preparation for the National Brass Band Championships, where the band was awarded third prize.
He is also much in demand as a freelance conductor and adjudicator and is currently working with a number of bands in Wales and the West of England. These include Professional Musical Directorships with Thornbury and Markham and guest visits to Tredegar Town, Cwmaman, Yeovil Town and Aldbourne. Recently he has been invited to work with the Desford Band in Concert and CD recording ventures. During the last 25 years has directed over 260 contest performances and many more concert appearances with over thirty different bands. For 10 years Nigel presented the popular 'Sounding Brass' programme on BBC Radio Wales and during his professional playing and conducting career he has travelled extensively in the UK and undertaken tours of every major European country as well as Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Russia, Japan and the USA.