Members

Colin Hudson brings a wealth of experience to the St. Pinnock band having been a professional musician for over 30 years.  An international soloist and conductor of wind bands, big bands and brass bands.

Performing all around the world in iconic venues such as the Sydney Opera House, the Tchaikovsky Hall in St. Petersburg and the Royal Albert Hall, London.

 “I am looking forward to working alongside these talented musicians, taking the band from strength to strength but also excited about several projects in the future which will modernize the brass band.”

Christie Underwood started playing when she was 6 years old for Lostwithiel Junior Band under the baton of Jane Whitehead. Starting on Bb cornet, she soon switched to Eb soprano cornet, which suited her better. At age 10, Christie was invited to play for Lostwithiel Senior Band, by its conductor, Denzil Stephens, where she remained until 2016. She also spent 3 years with the Cornwall Youth Brass Band on Eb soprano cornet and joined Bodmin College Jazz Orchestra on Bb trumpet. She then joined Restormel Concert Band on the trumpet and finally, St. Pinnock Brass Band on Bb cornet. During this time she has achieved grade 5 and grade 5 theory.

Having played since he was 8 years old, Simon joined his first brass band while at University (Colchester Silver Band) 30-something years ago. Since then he has played for a variety of different groups including Big Bands, Swing Bands, a Latin Salsa band and various concert bands. After many years in the IT networking and security industry, Simon published his first novel in 2012 and founded a book promotion website called Readers in the Know.
In 2013, he moved to Cornwall, where he resumed brass banding with Pendennis Brass in Falmouth, then with Redruth Town Band, and finally with St. Pinnock, after moving to East Cornwall in 2017.
He lives with his wife and three of his five children and now works from home as a writer, digital marketing consultant, and web programmer.

Jason started in the band at age 9 on baritone, often attending band practice on the back of his Mum’s moped from Trevelmond – sister village to St. Pinnock.
Jason’s musical youth included the piano and progressing to Solo Euphonium of the band at the age of 16.  Following a brief Spanish sabbatical – of close to 20 years – Jason returned to the band in 2015 and looking for a quiet time on 2nd Baritone, again found himself sitting ‘on the end chair’.  Jason’s return to the UK is thanks to his union with Sarah – a St. Pinnock Euphonium colleague from ‘back-in-the-day’.
Jason looks forward to helping the band back into Section 1.

Cornwall born Aerospace Engineer with an eclectic taste in Music and a musical family. Classical guitar and piano (with a penchant for Jazz) were my main instruments for many years. Hadn’t considered brass until 2019, when Julian Short offered up a Brass instrument (a Baritone, from memory) and asked if could get a note out of it. After much encouragement, I moved on to Euphonium, then settled on the Tuba (sorry, Eb Bass!). I’ve been on this journey with my partner & son (both cornet players), where we all started from the same point of zero-brass experience. We’ve enjoyed every minute, and look forward to more post-covid brass adventures. We are forever indebted to St Pinnock Band and Liskeard Salvation Army for making all of this possible.