Gregory Thomson (John McGlashan College), Kalie Eathorne-Gould (Kavanagh College) and Rose Evans (Bayfield High School) will be part of the 47-strong band, which assembles in September.
Selection is offered to the best secondary-school players available for each instrument. Gregory (15) was chosen to play in the repiano cornet position, Kalie (16) will play 2nd cornet and Rose (15) will play 1st flugel.
Not only will they receive musical training from leading members of the New Zealand Army Band, they will also be put through their paces in the field and train on the same concourse as New Zealand's military personnel at Burnham during the week-long course.
The band's members will also be given master classes on conducting and arranging music for brass bands, but the main goal for the ensemble will be to prepare for a concert with the New Zealand Army Band at the Christchurch Town Hall for the city's primary school pupils.
The trio will join a long line of prominent brass musicians who made their humble beginnings in the secondary schools brass band and went on to play in some of the world's top musical ensembles.
