Hillsound Music School
Our Woodwind Teachers

Ken Poole
Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute and Piano
Ken has 50 continuous years of teaching experience, ranging from St Georges, Windsor Castle, to the local comprehensive. Currently at Radnor House, Twickenham and Broomwood School, Wandsworth. He learned to play clarinet and march in time in the RAF band in Cyprus in 1959. He played Jazz in Soho nightclubs till the early hours, while learning to play posh at the Guildhall School of Music in Daylight. He joined the London Palladium Orchestra on sax, clarinet and flute. He toured with pop artists, R&B bands, Tamala Mowtown groups, light orchestras (Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Geoff Love BBC Orchestra etc) Appointed member of the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra. He Subsequently played in seventeen West End Musicals conducting four of them, the last of which was Starlight Express as Associate Conductor. Currently free lance with regular appearances with the Royal Opera House Swing Orchestra and local amateur musical productions.

Roger Perrin
Piano, Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon, Tuba , Euphonium Beginners Trumpet, Trombone, Bass electric and upright.
Roger Perrin grew up in Melbourne Australia and studied for a Bachelor of Education in music at the University of Melbourne. He plays and teaches a wide variety of instruments including flute, clarinet, saxophone, tuba, piano and bass. He teachers people to play in a variety of styles and is particularly good at jazz education. For the past 25 years he has become well known around south west London for the bands that he directs which perform regularly at community events around the Richmond borough. Many of the students who have played in his bands have gone on to professional careers in music.