Keith Terrett, MMUS, FLCM (Hons), FVCM (Hons), FNMSM, FTCSM, BA Open (Hons), Dip Mus, LRAM, LTCL, ARCM, ALCM, BBCM, MCertNMSM. (b.1956), is a film& media composer, arranger, conductor, band trainer, IB music educator (PYP, MYP & DP) & instrumental teacher, trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist, anthemologist & multi-instrumentalist born in London.
Check out his national anthem of the world new on-line store:
https://www.keithterrettmusic.com
ScoreExchange on-line store: https://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/keithterrett1
Musescore:
Muse Score has all my national anthem arrangements for sale.
Hal leonard Stores:
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/arrangeme/3032/keith-terrett
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/en/arrangeme-pro?sid=3032
In my Hal Leonard stores you can find arrangements such as Elton John's Sorry is the hardest word, Glen Miller's Moonlight Serenade, You only Live Twice for Concert/Wind Band, Skyfall, A Night in Tunisia and much more plus all my national anthem arrangements.
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/keith-terret
Linkedin profile:
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https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/node/66473
My Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Terrett
My various Publishers & Distributors from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Wales, USA & Norway:
https://americanrecorder.org/composer_bios.php#Keith%20Terrett
Music for Recorder Ensembles all free!
https://saxtetpublications.com/composers/terrett-keith/
Music for Soprillo Saxophone & Piano recorded by NIgel Wood on his album ''Soprillogy'', published in the U.K.
https://bernaertsmusic.business/tag-category/keith-terrett/
Rock 'n' Pop arrangements such as Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' arranged for Brass, Harmonie & Concert/Wind Band, published in Belgium.
https://www.musikverlag-frank.ch/?action=Volltextsuche&searchword=keith+terrett
Some of my Papua New Guinean music for Concert/Wind Band can be found here.
https://bassclarinet.ecwid.com/search?keyword=keith+terrett
Music for Bass Clarinet and Clarinet Quintet including some of my own compositions such as Fanfare & Soliloquy.
https://notebutikken.no/en_GB/filter?query=keith%20terrett
Much of my Flexible Band/Korps music is published here such as Amazing Grace along with some original compositions.
https://www.jwpepper.com/s?q=keith+terrett&sort=score_desc&page=0
My marches & paso dobles published by Echelon Press in Texas, USA.
https://cherryclassics.com/pages/terrett https://www.cimarronmusic.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=3&q=keith%2Bterrett
Music for Brass Ensembles & Wind Band published in Vancouver Canada.
My best seller Fallen Heroes for Young Concert Band published in the USA.
https://www.hebu-music.com/en/musician/keith-terrett.22287/
https://www.matrixmusic.com/cgi-bin/concert_csvsearch.pl?search=Keith&method=exact&order_by=title
My three sets of Chorales for Band are here published in the USA.
https://www.uetzverlag.de/search?q=keith+terrett&filter=2&module=10286629186
Instrumental solos for all Brass, Woodwind & Tuned Percussion published in Leipzig, Germany. Czardas, 8 Jazzy Xmas Carols & The Ballroom series!
https://edition-tre-fontane.de/?s=keith+terrett&post_type=product
Music for Solo & Recorder Ensemble published in Münster, Germany.
https://www.safemusic.co.uk/13024/keith-terrett
Concert/WindBand music published in Wales.
Keith's popular national anthem arrangements have been performed & conducted by Herbert Thorson Blomsted & Semyon Bychkov with the New York & Czech Philharmonic & Prague Philharmonic Choir and 30 anthems have been recorded by the Orchestre National de France under conductor Jonas Ehrler. A flashmob Orchestra in Trafalgar Square in March 2022 also performed his poignant version of the Ukrainian National Anthem under the baton of Peter Liminov.
Trafalgar Square Flash Mob Orchestra plays the Ukrainian National Anthem:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j90wn4IgnEA
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC PERFORMANCE OF MY MUSIC:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1oVa3_Nt4
Andrei Bondarenko - National Anthem of Ukraine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25PrUiajLbU
Czech and Ukrainian Anthem • Semyon Bychkov, Czech Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonic Choir:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkcKTH84d44
West Australia Symphony Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrLDUHKh3pk
UBC Symphony Orchetstra:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_vZrZ8bHo
Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuVV_IN14co&t=85s
Billings Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rypj7invgVE
Fargo -Moorhead Symphony: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1125241831595646
Northern Valley Youth Orchestras:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgz7H1bzNY
UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rtu3_lOk_U
Choirs:
East River Catholic Choir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9yWX6_LXhQ
Wind/Concert/Symphonic Bands:
Auburn University Band:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkz9pY6snWo
Keith joined the British Army at the age of fifteen, studying the Bb Cornet at the Junior Leader's Army band school in Bovington, Dorset.
At 18 he became the Principal Cornet/Trumpet to the «Band of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars» (a cavalry regiment), stationed in West Germany. He has toured the USA, Canada, Northern Ireland, France, Belgium and Holland during his military service. He was fortunate in have P.B. Smith, Roger G. Swift and Franck Slack as his Bandmasters; all excellent conductors & musicians.
During his Bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Keith won the prestigious Commandant's prize for the best quick march; now published in the USA by Echelon Publishers in Texas, and also it's the official march of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary.
After retiring from the army in 1990, Keith took up a position as «Head of Instrumental Music» and «Band Director» to school's in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies.
From 1993-4, Keith was a «Lecturer in Music» at the «Faculty of Creative Arts, »University of Papua New Guinea», and from 1994-99, «Principal Director of Music» and «Chief Instructor» at the rank of Superintendent/Lt. Colonel, to the world famous «Band of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary»; touring Australia and Japan in 1996 & 1998; raising money for the PNG Red Cross which was used in Aitape after the disaster.
While in Papua New Guinea, Keith arranged many local folk and rock 'n' roll pieces of music, leaving a musical legacy behind when he left. Many of these works are now published in Holland, the UK and USA. In PNG he collaborated with the late Buruka Tau & Ben Hakalitz, members of the Australian Rock Band Yothu Yindi. Keith still sends musical arrangements to the band on a regular basis.
After a brief spell teaching in the United Kingdom in 1999 in North Wales, Keith's interest in ethnomusicology took him to the Middle East for a year, where he taught classroom music in an international school in Kuwait City; giving him a chance to study Arabic music in detail.
From 2001-2006, Keith taught instrumental music in a specialist music school in Kviteseid, Southern Norway; where he was also the town band director of Kviteseid hornmusikk. During his time in Norway, Keith was invited to guest conduct His Majesty's King's Guard Band in Oslo, and ran music seminars with the Norwegian composer Idar Torskangerpoll. Keith had his first composition published in Oslo with Musikk Huset AS; entitled The Gypsy Violinist in New Orleans.
During his diverse career, he has performed with many artists and orchestras including Harry Mortimer, Martin Mailman, Kenny Baker, Don Lusher, Alf Bigden, Alan Civil, Geoffrey Brand, Jesse Norman, Dame Vera Lynne, Iona Brown & Richard Seal, Engelbert Humperdink, Sir John Pritchard, London & BBC Concert & Symphony Orchestras and the Kneller Hall Band. He has even appeared as a trumpeter on «This is your Life» with Eamon Andrews for the 85th birthday of Sir George Solti! A highlight was his appearances for three consecutive years in the annual Christmas Bach Choir Concerts in the Albert Hall, with Sir David Valentine Willcocks, HRH The Duchess of Kent, the London Brass, as a member of the world famous Kneller Hall Fanfare Trumpet Team. In 1974, Keith performed for Henry Kissinger at the British Embassy in Washington He also performed during Friday Night is Music Night with the Kneller Hall Band BBC Radio 2. Whilst at Kneller Hall, he performed ''Galilee'' (1987), for a cappella SATB choir with the Master of the Queen's Music Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, AO, CBE in its first performance.
His trumpet professor at Kneller Hall was the legendary Ian Mackintosh (son of the immortal Jack Mackintosh) Principal Trumpet of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. During his time at Kneller Hall, Keith had the opportunity to study all brass, woodwind and percussion instruments; under leading London players such as Paul Harvey, Denzil Floyd, Richard Cattermole & Bill Teskey.. In addition he studied conducting with Lt. Col. Duncan Beat, Frank Renton, orchestration with Lt. Col. Trevor Sharp, and harmony and composition with Professor Gordon Reynolds (Hampton Court Palace) Peter Byrne & Major Roger G. Swift. Keith has also studied jazz trumpet with Dick Pearce & Bobby Shew, and composition with Stanley Friedman, Professor Ian Higginson & Professor's Stewart Thompson, Michael Walsh & Elizabeth Stratford (Organist and Master of the Choristers of Arundel Cathedral) and Anglican Church Music with Lionel Frederick Dakers at the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), for a month in 1988.
Keith is an internationally acclaimed composer\arranger, writing in all genres from full orchestra, brass band, and concert/wind band, to music for string quartet, brass ensemble, saxophone choir, clarinet choir, recorder consort, oboe consort, and even for the harmonica, steel pan and accordion! In 2010, he became a composer for the Alfred Publishing company in the USA, with his best selling original composition for young symphonic band entitled ''Fallen Heroes''.
His music is published worldwide: England, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Canada, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, the USA and Norway.
A set of 34 national anthem arrangements by Keith Terrett will be released shortly on Nomad Player performed by L'orchestre national d'Île de France soon, during the initial process Keith worked with the esteemed young conductor Jonas Ehrler on the project.
In Norway his flexible ''Jazz for 5'' is very popular. In 1974. Not bad for a lad from Exmouth, Devon!
Keith has studied with, and gained academic musical qualifications from the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, The Open University, Trinity College of Music, Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, London College of Music, the Bandsman's College of Music in Manchester, the Victoria College of Music and is currently in his final year of a Doctorate in Sacred Music with the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University in Florida.
Keith's version of the Ukrainian National Anthem has been performed by the New York & Czech Philharmonic & the Prague Philharmonic Choir, NVYO, UBC Symphony, FMSO, Western Austraialian Symphony, Andrei Bondarenko & the Orchestre National de France, Austin Civic, Las Vegas, UBC, San Antonio, Underwood, Olympia, Billings , Samohi Symphony, Bergen Philharmonic, Cardiff Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie and the Auburn University Band and the Angelica Women's Chamber Choir to name just a few!
Keith has a Master's Degree in sacred music composition awarded from the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University in April 2021, he studied under Professor Stewart Thompson (Principal at Victoria College of Music and Drama, London & Head of Music and Associate Professor of Sacred Music and Education at the Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Christian University.
As a conductor, band trainer, composer & arranger, Keith is in demand world-wide, and has guest conducted at band seminars in the UK, Norway & Malaysia. Keith is available for your seminar; book early to avoid disappointment!
Keith is currently 'Head of Performing Arts' & 'Director of Music' at Pathways School (Gurgaon) in India, where he has worked since 2010, both at Pathways Aravali campus, and since 2014 at the No 1 IB school in India namely ''Pathways'' Gurgaon.
Below is a link to some of his arrangements/compositions and live performances around the world as a conductor, composer, arranger and performer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPfAw0kNCWs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmK7FJGxbN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzluvVwpUtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmK7FJGxbN8&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA&index=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1BGj-g7jHg&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOUIedGZos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUP8J7rcg8&index=18&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKsZbGfqLE&list=UUMpNzolL4slr4RT7vQGimBA&index=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUAmpm96AeA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hTAMCwqkUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZYUFuElpIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAN4gWmqNF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c07FaUpC7Rg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCz-qRUTUS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxEXZOCd9jg&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDa98j4y8A&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZPRKoQxkm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOkW271PfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4D9ak5G_CE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuS9gyFdok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SddDuJ2PEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sn7lIl4VCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAxNLTrCljE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVmU4wkkek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDaoD41MkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inezR8jr2pQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ye8sy7PR0
If you're looking for something specific you can send requests to Keith by getting touch directly - click "Contact the publisher" on this page.
If you decide to perform any of Keith's scores, please send a copy of the programme via email, or if programmes were not used, forward Keith an email with any other relevant information that would allow him to list performances on his personal website/Score Exchange page, giving credit to your ensemble. Thank you, keep checking back for more great music!
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Keith led and conducted the ''Band of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary'' on tour to Japan in1998 visiting Kobe & Osaka, raising funds for the Aitape Relief Fund in Papua New Guineas, donated to the PNG Red Cross in Port Moresby. The highlight of this tour was the march through Osaka with one million spectators on the streets! Another was speaking in the 'Osaka' dialect to a live audience during a concert with a 5000 strong Japanese audience.
Keith's orchestral arrangement of Ennio Moricone's haunting main theme to 'Cinema Paradiso' for Violin & Orchestra, arranged for the Maestro Eugene Pook, and the fabulous Kuala Lumpur Festival Orchestra. Below his re-working of the classic 'Czardas' by Monti, with a Latin twist performed by the fabulous Jessical Lee a Malaysian living in the US, in a concert with the Malaysian Royal family in attendance. The Concert was organized by Alzheimer Disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM).
Keith was invited by the celebrated Malaysian conducting maestro Eugene Pook to Ipoh in Malaysia in 2012, to guest conduct the fabulous ''Kinta Valley Wind Orchestra'', in a concert of music from around the world, featuring his bespoke arrangements, such as Czardas & the Jasmine Flower (The) for Solo Violin & Concert Band, a Chinese folk song. This is one example from many!!
Keith's version of the Ukrainian National Anthem went viral, and has been performed by many of the world's leading orchestras, for example the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert Blomstedt, Orchestre National De France with Ukrainian tenor Andrei Bondarenko, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestre and the world famous Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Mayevich Bychkov. It doesn't get better tham that!
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