Stephen Cairns is a music graduate of Queen's University, Belfast where his trombone teacher was Danny Longstaff (then with the Ulster Orchestra). He also received lessons from Alfred Flaszynski after being awarded a Harty Scholarship.
Stephen has been a member of the British Trombone Society since 1985 and does most of his playing today with brass bands and his brass quintet. He has been a director of brass bands for some twenty years and is presently musical director of the First Old Boys Band, Belfast, with whom he has competed in the European Brass Band finals in Glasgow and the Cambridge Masters.
He is Head of Music at Belfast High School.
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Arthur Wilson: With the passing of Arthur (21 Jun 1927 – 10 Jul 2010) after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease, the music profession has lost one of its finest symphonic trombone players and teachers.
Arthur's career spanned more than 50 years. His loss will be deeply felt by hundreds of friends, colleagues and ex-students.
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