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It is very difficult for young men and women to make a professional career in music, it is hard to get grants and college places and harder still to win through to a full-time salaried job as a performer.
A career in Army music is therefore worth careful consideration, before setting out on a career path in the tough world of professional music.

Formed in 1994, the Corps of Army Music is one of the youngest Army Corps, but it is one of the largest single employers of musicians in the world, over 1100 musicians in twenty nine bands of the Regular Army ranging in rank from Musician through to Lieutenant Colonel.

The Corps Headquarters is based at Kneller Hall in Twickenham, which has been the home of military music since 1857. Each Army band is affiliated to a Regiment, a group of Regiments or to a Corps. On completion of their training a musician will be posted to one of these bands where he/she will wear the uniform applicable, but wherever you go you will always be a member of the Corps of Army Music.

The British Army pays musicians to do their learning, to standards as high as any college in the world and it offers a full time salaried and pensionable career.

The Army teaches and uses all the instruments in the symphonic wind band, including strings and harp. Harmony, orchestration and conducting are taught as well as and management of an orchestra and repertoire. The bands perform a great variety of music; including jazz, swing, middle-of-the-road, popular, baroque, mainstream symphonic and operatic. This is in addition to the marching band music so synonymous with military life.

Bands perform at indoor and outdoor concerts, social engagements and on tour anywhere in the world.

An Army musician is paid to learn and paid to gain experience of an unrivalled breadth of performance throughout their careers. The musicians are trained to be soldiers in addition to their specialist skills.

When a musician arrives in their band, they will be under the supervision of the Director of Music and Bandmaster who will ensure that on the job learning continues and that the young musician receives all the necessary training to fully equip them for promotion and career advancement. Promotion, as in all walks of life, depends on talent, leadership qualities and the willingness to accept responsibility for others.

The Army is not a mantrap and you do not need to be in for life. You can treat Army music as a twin-track career opportunity; you will be free to decide after serving only four years to stay in or to take your training and experience into a civilian career in music.