Sara Oxley

Flugel Horn

Sara hails from Yorkshire, the traditional centre of brass banding in the world. She studied music at with Philip McCann and played with Sellers Engineering Band under his direction for many years.

Sara joined Norfolk Brass on flugel horn in 2010 after a long break from playing.

She lives on the north Norfolk coast with her two children and husband with whom she runs a holiday letting business.

Pamela Jarvis

Solo Horn

Pamela is very proud of being Welsh!

Indeed, she was the first ever principal horn player with the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, and one of the first people to be awarded the ‘Tutors Award’, for outstanding contribution to that band. Whilst with the National Youth Band of Wales, Pamela's excellent playing was recognized when she was asked to play in a quartet with James Gourlay, Robert Childs and her friend and teacher Gordon Higginbottom.

She started playing at the tender age of five years, and went on to play Solo horn for some of the countries finest bands, such as Mid Rhondda, Banks’ Brewery Band, Tredegar and the Midlands champions Heart of England Band.

As a schoolgirl, Pamela was a member of the Upper Rhondda School brass band, under the conductor Ieuan Morgan MBE, during a successful period when they won the National youth championships.

Pamela has also played the trumpet at a very high level, being a member of the English Philharmonic Orchestra and working with Jazz legend Digby Fairweather on tour.

As well as playing Solo Horn with Norfolk Brass, Pamela runs her own business and is a proud mum to five children. Her favourite pieces of brass band music are Resurgam and Journey into Freedom.

Jonathan Cushion

First Horn

Karin Rowell

Second Horn

Following desperate pleas and bribes from her parents, Karin, at the of age 12 agreed to 'swap' the Violin for a different instrument. Much to her Parents dismay, she found a battered silver Trumpet in the attic. (The 'mute' was not found until years later).

Contrary to rumours, she's a good few years younger than the Trombone section (!) and qualified up the ranks from 4th Section to Championship at Norfolk Brass on Repiano Cornet. She still has the 'contesting bug' and contested for the last three years with Clacton on Sea Co-op Band. Her best banding moments include winning contests, playing in the "Brassed Off" stage production and in concert with Percussionist Evelyn Glennie. While working for BBC TV, she enjoyed playing a 'live' duet with the late Roy Castle during a "Children in Need" programme. Karin still hasn't fully recovered from the 'Bitburg' experience, travelling to Germany for the European Folk Festival with 'English Festival Brass', later 'Coronation Brass'. Members included some of BTM Band and she thanks them for the singing and laughter! Subsequent trips to Cologne and a concert in Luxembourg were a' bit of a 'blur' which she blames on the Coco Nightclub and the Bitburger brewery.

Her two teenagers, whom she 'loves to bits', as youngsters, were dragged along 'under protest' to band and strangely have no desire to play a brass instrument. Martin 18 and Joanne 16 are both at university.

As a 'mature' student, Karin gained a Diploma in Health and Social Welfare recently. She's an Assistant Practitioner with Norfolk County Council /Social Services in the Social Work Dept, Physical Disabilities and Older People Team.