Our Director

George Reynolds (DRSAM) has been the musical director and conductor of CYCO since 1984. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra and studied trumpet and conducting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. He was a member of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The London Symphony Orchestra (17 years), and the London Brass Virtuosi. He now devotes more of his time to teaching, free-lancing, solo work and conducting. He was Head of the popular Brass Department at the Colchester Institute and is Professor of Trumpet at Homerton College, Cambridge and Anglia University. He founded the Anglia Brass Academy in 1993.

George brings a wealth of professional experience to the orchestra. His expectations of the players are very high, however, they always live up to those expectations and, in some cases, have surprised themselves by exceeding them. Young players joining the orchestra soon experience the satisfaction of achieving much more than they ever realised they could.