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O'Keeffe set for on-line masterclass

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Principal Trumpet Mark O'Keeffe will be on-line and ready to answer al your questions tonight...

Mark Keefe
 

Following his acclaimed performance at the Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass with Foden’s Band on the weekend, Mark O’Keeffe (above), Principal Trumpet of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be hosting a free on-line masterclass this evening.

Tips and advice

Hosted by the Musical Orbit website, which offers one to one music lessons with the top principal players of major orchestras, Mark will be on hand to give a full hour of advice, tips and artistic guidance to anyone who wishes to ask!

Starts

It all starts at 8.30pm this evening (Wednesday 4th February) at: http://www.musicalorbit.com/webinars

Mark is a fantastic musician with a lot of interesting anecdotes and advice to share with not only trumpeters but musicians across the orchestraspokesperson

Fantastic musician

A spokesperson told 4BR: “Mark is a fantastic musician with a lot of interesting anecdotes and advice to share with not only trumpeters but musicians across the orchestra.

He will be able to cover a huge range of topics for the trumpet and can give some great advice.”

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