MrBall!
Mr Ball started his musical life in primary school with the violin but he decided to quit once he reached grade 5. He plays a large variety of instruments. Mr Ball plays the whole of the saxophone family, clarinet family, brass family, percussion family and the piano He can also play the violin (badly)
He says he doesn't really have a favourite genre it just depends on what mood he is in, but also says he couldn't listen to bagpipes for more then 20 minutes so his mood tends to stay clear of that type of music!
Mr Ball’s early inspiration was Glenn Miller, he was an American big band founder, owner, conductor, composer, arranger, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War 1, when he was an officer in the US army air forces.
Mr Ball also played in many Brass bands and orchestras with a personal favourite to play in orchestra being Pines of Rome on the piano He has also been in and directed a variety of musical groups but cycling is a favourite hobby of his to fill his spare time with when he is not at church
Fun fact- Mr Ball goes to church every Monday, Wednesday, Sunday and is taking an online theology course
Mr Ball says he doesn't have a favourite piece of music and just like what genres he likes it depends on what mood he is in Mr Ball does in fact come from a musical family; his mum is in her late 70s yet still has 60 odd pupils a week for piano lessons.
The start of Mr Ball's career was at school. His favourite subject in school was not music and instead maths, though they do say maths is close to music His least favourite subject was languages, he says he just didn't get it. In school Mr Ball wanted to be a trumpet player in an orchestra or a conductor
Even though Mr Ball is a music teacher he loves literature and reading. After Mr Ball finished high school he went to Marlborough College, his favourite teacher was one of the music teachers who taught Bach harmony to him and his class. He then moved onto university. Mr Ball went to Huddersfield University and got a music degree
When I asked Mr Ball if he ever got a detention he laughed and said “Once,” because he climbed through a window to skip a lunch queue but was caught by the strictest teacher
Mr Ball can play an incredible amount of instruments and still enjoys reading and cycling
By Scarlett Baker