Steamboat Stompers

SGT Graeme Reynolds

Graeme has been a professional trumpet for nearly 30 years having. completed a B.A.(Perf. Mus.) at the South Australian College of Advanced Education in 1981 and a B.MUS (Hons) from the University of Adelaide in 1984. He went onto to become Adelaide's leading freelance trumpet player, prior to joining the Australian Army Band Adelaide as a reservist in 1995. Graeme joined the regular Army in 1998 and was posted to the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He has been deployed with this band to Bougainville and East Timor, as well as parade at Buckingham Palace in 2000.

In 2001 Graeme was posted to the Australian Army Band Kapooka. He travelled to the Solomon Islands and East Timor whilst with this Band, as well as going on exchange to the New Zealand Army Band in 2002. He also travelled to Japan for an International Marching Band Festival in 2005.

Graeme was posted back to the Band of the Royal Military College Duntroon in 2006 and has enjoyed much success in performing with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and co-ordinating Chamber Music Concerts for the RMC Band at the Church of St Andrew. He undertook a further exchange to the United Kingdom in 2008 and was hosted by the Royal Artillery Band and Orchestra in Woolwich.