Grace Tolhurst
2nd Cornet
Grace grew up playing the cornet, piano and bassoon and played in various ensembles for the Northamptonshire county music service until leaving school. Grace and her husband Rob (Solo Cornet with Brunel) even met sitting next to each other on Repiano Cornet in the county brass band in 2012!
After studying Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Grace moved to Swindon in 2019 and joined Brunel Brass shortly after. The band proved to be a much needed community for someone starting again in an unfamiliar part of the country.
Grace has had the same unusual ‘long’ (large-bore) cornet since primary school, which people always liked to call a ‘crumpet’ instead.