Craig Roberts
Craig studied at the United Kingdom's University of Salford, gaining first his BA (Hons) then Masters degree there, studying with Dr Roy Newsome and Prof David King. Whilst at the university, in his final year Craig was awarded the Roy Newsome conducting prize as the outstanding undergraduate conductor of the academic year 2000.
Within the UK Craig has performed in most of the country’s finest concert halls including the Wales Millennium Centre, St David’s Hall, and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Symphony Hall, Birmingham; The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; and the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Academy of Music, London. Abroad Craig has toured to America, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Libya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Russia.
Craig has worked on a wide variety of large scale and innovative concert projects both at home and abroad, with numerous leading ensembles and artists. These include the Stadtorchester & Kreisverband Jugendblasorchester Ravensburg and Stadtkapelle Nurtingen of Germany, the Don Cossack and Russian Cossack State Dance Companies, Errollyn Wallen and the Welsh National Opera Company, Tim A. Duncan and the Imperial Ice Stars, Steve Bingham, Shan Cothi, Rebecca Evans, Catrin Finch, Joji Hirota & the Japanese Taiko Drummers, Peter Karrie, Andrew Powell, James Watson, the Band of Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards, plus various and numerous leading bands and choirs which have included Black Dyke, Brighouse & Rastrick and Leyland brass bands, and Cor Meibion Morlais, the Gentlemen Songsters, Only Men Aloud, Pendyrus and Treorchy Male Choirs, the Richard Williams Singers, Vivace Singers and Serendipity.
Within Wales Craig has conducted the majority of the top brass bands, including the famous Cory Band who Craig guest conducted for the Golden Jubilee procession through London of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been successful in competition at the highest level, winning the Welsh League Championship on three occasions (2006, 2009 and 2011) and has won every contest in the Welsh League Championships: the SWBBA Championships in 2006 with Parc & Dare, the WWBBA Championships in 2007 with Burry Port, and the SEWBBA Championships in 2011 with Abergavenny Borough. In 2004 Craig was named Conductor of the Year by the SEWBBA and WWBBA.
For a number of years Craig was also Director of Music of the Woods Mfg Co Brass Band based in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. He directed the band at several of the world’s largest military shows including the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Canada; the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk, USA; the Netherlands Nationale Taptoe in Breda, Holland and the Polizei Show in Hamburg, Germany.
Today Craig is a member of the Production Team of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, where he is one of the Assistant Directors and principal music arrangers of this, the world’s largest annual indoor show. He has also worked as a production consultant on the annual Canadian Beating Retreat “Fortissimo” held annually on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; travelled to Russia, to work with the Kremlin Zoria Festival on a Tattoo held in Moscow's Red Square in 2007; and to Tripoli, Libya, where in 2009 he acted as Director of Music and Musical Advisor to the World Military Music Festival, a Tattoo held in Green Square, Tripoli in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Arab Jamahereya. In 2010 & 2011 Craig also travelled to Crete, Greece to act as Director of Music and Advisor to the Crete International Tattoo and Mediterranean International Festival of Arts.
Formerly Executive Officer of the UK National School Band Association (NSBA) and Artistic Director of the Welsh Brass Arts Festival, Craig is now Wales Development Manager to Making Music, the national support body for UK voluntary music. In addition to all of the above Craig also still supplies brass tuition to numerous schools and young musicians in his home county of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and is also a serving member of the Executive Council of Music Centre Wales, Ty Cerdd and Musical Director of the 2011 SEWBBA and Welsh League Champions Abergavenny Borough Band.
Within the UK Craig has performed in most of the country’s finest concert halls including the Wales Millennium Centre, St David’s Hall, and the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Symphony Hall, Birmingham; The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; and the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Academy of Music, London. Abroad Craig has toured to America, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Libya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Russia.
Craig has worked on a wide variety of large scale and innovative concert projects both at home and abroad, with numerous leading ensembles and artists. These include the Stadtorchester & Kreisverband Jugendblasorchester Ravensburg and Stadtkapelle Nurtingen of Germany, the Don Cossack and Russian Cossack State Dance Companies, Errollyn Wallen and the Welsh National Opera Company, Tim A. Duncan and the Imperial Ice Stars, Steve Bingham, Shan Cothi, Rebecca Evans, Catrin Finch, Joji Hirota & the Japanese Taiko Drummers, Peter Karrie, Andrew Powell, James Watson, the Band of Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards, plus various and numerous leading bands and choirs which have included Black Dyke, Brighouse & Rastrick and Leyland brass bands, and Cor Meibion Morlais, the Gentlemen Songsters, Only Men Aloud, Pendyrus and Treorchy Male Choirs, the Richard Williams Singers, Vivace Singers and Serendipity.
Within Wales Craig has conducted the majority of the top brass bands, including the famous Cory Band who Craig guest conducted for the Golden Jubilee procession through London of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He has been successful in competition at the highest level, winning the Welsh League Championship on three occasions (2006, 2009 and 2011) and has won every contest in the Welsh League Championships: the SWBBA Championships in 2006 with Parc & Dare, the WWBBA Championships in 2007 with Burry Port, and the SEWBBA Championships in 2011 with Abergavenny Borough. In 2004 Craig was named Conductor of the Year by the SEWBBA and WWBBA.
For a number of years Craig was also Director of Music of the Woods Mfg Co Brass Band based in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. He directed the band at several of the world’s largest military shows including the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in Halifax, Canada; the Virginia International Tattoo in Norfolk, USA; the Netherlands Nationale Taptoe in Breda, Holland and the Polizei Show in Hamburg, Germany.
Today Craig is a member of the Production Team of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, where he is one of the Assistant Directors and principal music arrangers of this, the world’s largest annual indoor show. He has also worked as a production consultant on the annual Canadian Beating Retreat “Fortissimo” held annually on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario; travelled to Russia, to work with the Kremlin Zoria Festival on a Tattoo held in Moscow's Red Square in 2007; and to Tripoli, Libya, where in 2009 he acted as Director of Music and Musical Advisor to the World Military Music Festival, a Tattoo held in Green Square, Tripoli in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Libyan Arab Jamahereya. In 2010 & 2011 Craig also travelled to Crete, Greece to act as Director of Music and Advisor to the Crete International Tattoo and Mediterranean International Festival of Arts.
Formerly Executive Officer of the UK National School Band Association (NSBA) and Artistic Director of the Welsh Brass Arts Festival, Craig is now Wales Development Manager to Making Music, the national support body for UK voluntary music. In addition to all of the above Craig also still supplies brass tuition to numerous schools and young musicians in his home county of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and is also a serving member of the Executive Council of Music Centre Wales, Ty Cerdd and Musical Director of the 2011 SEWBBA and Welsh League Champions Abergavenny Borough Band.
