Carol Jarvis from Bones Apart is the first ever winner of The Brass Herald Brass Personality of the Year.

Carol, originally from Newport Pagnell, moved to Manchester in 1996 and graduated from the RNCM in 2001 with a Bmus (Hons) 1st class degree and distinction in the solo Professional Performance diploma. She gained many awards including the brass prize, a jazz improvisation award and two major scholarships from the RNCM and also won the British Trombone Society/Jiggs Whigham scholarship to study in America.

Carol has been busy freelancing in all fields of the trombone profession with the likes of the BBC Philharmonic, Opera North, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Northern Ballet Theatre, D'Oyly Carte and Ulster Brass. Carol has also had trials with the Hallé Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

Carol has also performed alongside Jamiroquai, Lulu, Victoria Beckham and Urban Cookie Collective, has toured the USA with Roy Wood and regularly works and tours with the Andy Prior Orchestra and NYJO. Carol features on a number of commercial albums including Badly Drawn Boy's "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" winning the 'Technics Mercury Music Award', a 'Q Award' and 'Album of the Year'. Carol was on the panel judging the International Trombone competitions whilst at the International Trombone Festival with Bones Apart in Denton, Texas, 2002 and also judged the Quartet Competitions for the ITF in Helsinki in 2003. She has her trombone arrangements published with Warwick Music and has accepted a role on the Board of Advisors of the British Trombone Society.