Stephen Pocock - MA Events Management (Part time)
8 December 2008
One of the University’s SPEED bursary recipients has found himself very much in tune with Buxton’s cultural life.
Management consultant Stephen Pocock’s venture ‘First Choice Musical Solutions’ opened in November 2006, in Staden Lane, off Ashbourne Road, Buxton. He has three other business partners.
It provides amateur and professional musicians and event organisers across the High Peak with a ‘one stop shop’ in an area that has a particularly strong musical tradition.
The business provides sheet music, instruments, instrument repairs, lighting, PA and karaoke hire, a rehearsal room and tuition on site.
It also plans to open a recording facility early next year.
Stephen took advantage of the SPEED bursary scheme shortly after joining his part time MA in Event Management at the University of Derby Buxton.
He said the help it had provided had been “very much appreciated” and had enabled the business to give something back.
“We are one of the Corporate Partners of the University of Derby Buxton and are looking to further develop our existing contacts with its music technology unit.”
