Richard Straker - Principal Cornet

About Richard: Richard hasn’t quite managed to work out how to post his profile yet, but here is how it might look if he ever gets around to it: At the age of seven, Richard was born as an only child to a pack of music loving wolves. Nothing else happened in his life until he joined Friary at the back end of 1999, whilst studying Sound Engineering at the University of Surrey. Since then Richard has played in a number of key positions within the band including the principal spot, which he holds now, flugel, Third-man down, and repiano. In 2006 Richard won the Best Soloist award at Hove contest and also became Friary’s Player of the year after playing down the octave for a whole year for charity! Rich will update this soon before his profile picture is chosen (remember I have a few interesting pics!!).