Kirsty Fox - Publicity Officer

Kirsty was born in Hull in 1972 and started playing the cornet at the age of nine. She progressed through the City’s youth bands and orchestras culminating in winning brass player of the year in 1991. In 1989, she joined The City of Hull Band as a founding member on 2nd cornet. Kirsty played in the band’s first ever contest in the fourth section Yorkshire Areas, which they won, earning a trip to London for the National Finals. Kirsty briefly left the band in 1991 when she moved to Coventry to study Mathematics at Warwick University where she joined Coventry CPA Band.

She returned to the band in 1993 to help out with contests and concerts and returned full time in 1994 after finishing her degree. In 1995, Kirsty married the band’s Eb Bass player, David Fox, at Howden Minster, with music during the service provided by the band. She moved onto Repiano cornet in the summer of 2000, whilst expecting her first child. Kirsty qualified and worked as a chartered accountant until 2002 when she took a career break to look after Liam and the twins, Joshua and Emily. On returning to work when the children reached school age Kirsty left accounting behind and retrained as a primary school teacher which keeps her fully occupied.