Jeremy Cooper MA AdCertRCM had his interest in wind bands stimulated by membership of the Kent School’s Symphonic Wind Band under Jeffrey Vaughan Martin before becoming a member of the National Youth Wind Orchestra. He studied music at Oxford, where he was conductor of the Oxford University Wind Orchestra, and conducting at the Royal College of Music with Christopher Adey. He has developed Invicta Wind Orchestra as its director since if was founded in 1989 and was appointed conductor of Maidstone Winds in September 2004, leaving in 2010.