Soprano Cornet - Scott Forrest

Scott began playing cornet with St. Ronan’s Band in 2001 before joining Whitburn in 2004. 

During his time with Whitburn he has performed on Bb Cornet and Soprano Cornet, where he has contributed to many fine performances. He has also performed with the European Youth Brass Band and the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland, where he was awarded the Best Student Award in 2005 and served as Principal Soprano for several years, including the band's landmark tour of Japan.

He was the Whitburn Band Player of the Year in 2006.  

Assistant Principal Cornet - Ray Munday
Current Titles - Whitburn Band Bandsman of the Year

Ray began playing the cornet at the age of 10. By the age of 15 he had become principal cornet with both the junior and senior bands in Colchester, along with a string of wins at solo competitions.

He went on to study trumpet and natural trumpet at Guildhall from 1982-86. In 1985, Ray was the first recipient of the Bernard Brown award for trumpeters at Guildhall. During this time, Ray maintained his banding connection by playing with Luton band, as assistant principal and then on soprano, before having to give up banding to follow a professional freelance career in London.

On moving to Scotland, he freelanced for 14 years with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera, as well as TV, theatre and recording work. During the 1990s, Ray also played with Whitburn Band and CWS Glasgow.

Ray left banding to set up his own kitchen and bathroom business in 2000. In 2005, he was accepted as a member of the Guild of Mastercraftsmen. He has also maintained his trumpet career, freelancing in theatres all over Scotland, and rejoined Whitburn at the end of 2010.

Solo Cornet - Kevin Smith

Kevin started playing cornet at 7 years old with Newtongrange Junior Band and Greenhall High School Band, until joining St David’s High School and being involved with their successful youth band of 1986. A school band winning the Scottish Youth Title over then British Champions, West Lothian Schools. This brought Kevin a first taste of playing in the Royal Albert Hall, London in the National Youth Championships.

Kevin’s first senior band was Dalkeith Burgh in the third section before joining Newtongrange in 1987, playing 2nd cornet and then progressing through the ranks to the principal cornet position 10 years later. Kevin then moved onto Solo Horn in Sept 2002 and after a short spell back on cornet Kevin took over the Flugel position in 2009 before moving to Whitburn and taking a position on their solo cornet bench in May 2011.

Before joining Whitburn, Kevin has had various memorable contests over the years with Newtongrange, including its first Scottish win in 1991 and 4th placing at the RAH the same year as well as the 2005 Scottish win. The first contest as principal cornet at the Whitburn contest in 1997 was memorable with winning the best cornet award and the band winning with a point score of 199 out of 200. More recently Kevin won the Best Horn award at the 2010 Fife Charities Contest. Kevin hopes to add more memorable performances with Whitburn over the forthcoming years.

Solo Cornet - Mel Clarke

Repiano Cornet - Chic Cullen

Charles joined Whitburn Band in 1986 having played previously with Newmains Band.

He is a former principal cornet with Whitburn, having held that position for ten years under Major Peter Parkes and Phillip McCann. He has won several Scottish Championships with the band and has too many second places to mention.

Chic is a former Scottish Solo Champion, and has 'guested' with many leading bands including Black Dyke Mills.

Second Cornet - Richard Tobin

Second Cornet - Jennifer Liddell

Jennifer started playing cornet at the age of 9 at primary school under the tuition of Mary Downs.

She joined West Lothian Schools Brass Band in 2002 and is proud to have been involved in four of its British Youth Brass Band Championship wins. She joined Broxburn Silver Band in 2005 before moving to Whitburn in 2006. Jennifer is a former member of the National Youth Brass Band of Scotland.

Third Cornet - Tom Conibere

Tom began playing trumpet at the age of 10 before joining his local brass band Berisford, which later to become Silk Brass, in Cheshire.

After winning the first prize for solo performance at the Royal Northern College of Music for a Rotary contest for Cheshire schools, Tom completed his grade 8 examination on both Cornet & Trumpet. He then went to study cornet at the Royal Northern College of Music under Brian Taylor and Roger Webster, where he gained BMus with Hons degree.

Before moving to Scotland, Tom played with several bands in the north west of England including Haydock and Williams Fairey.