John Brennan

John teaches Cello and Double Bass

1.  I once conducted Star Wars dressed as Darth Vader, and a Halloween concert dressed as a ghostly monk, with my eyes blacked out to make them look like empty eye sockets. The audience screamed when I looked up
2. My cello is called Bernard, but is a girl.
3. I have a goldendoodle called Fred-bear, who tries to protect me when I sneeze.
4. I was once playing in a school concert and asked what my instrument was. The first answer? “A pigeon?”
5.  My bow once broke whilst I was playing in a show, and my spare one was being rehaired. I performed the rest of the show using a half sized, fibre-glass violin bow…