Music Adjudicators
Eva Maria Doroszkowska
Eva won a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Northern College of Music. With awards from the Countess of Munster and government scholarships, she also studied under the renowned Jasinski in Poland and took soloist diplomas in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. She enjoys a busy soloist and chamber performing career and has appeared on television and radio. She worked with the late Gorecki and Per Norgard and premiered their works, as well as being well known for her Chopin interpretations. She also has a regular piano and clarinet duo. She has given master classes and workshops and teaches both classical and jazz piano. She has taught at the Junior Royal Academy for the last 18 years.
Murray McLachlan
Pianist, teacher, writer Murray is Chair of EPTA, Head of Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music and tutor at RNCM in Manchester. He has made over 40 commercial recordings and written four books on technique for Faber which have consistently received outstanding reviews. He has performed on all five continents and also serves regularly on juries of international piano competitions. Murray is founder/artistic Director of the world famous Chetham’s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists. In 2012 the University of Dundee awarded him an honorary Doctorate for outstanding services to music and education.
Kathryn Hardman
Kathryn is trained as a violinist at the Royal Manchester College of Music, graduating with distinction both in performance and teaching, subsequently working as a freelance musician, and teaching at the RNCM. She held the post of Head of Strings for the County of Avon from 1985–1991, directing senior ensembles and also teaching at the Birmingham Conservatoire Junior Department. Kathryn has established an extensive private teaching practice in Bristol and also taught for many years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and for Bristol University. Kathryn enjoys tutoring on holiday music courses including NCO, NYCO and her own chamber music course, “Novacorda”. Time permitting, other interests are travel, walking and Shakespeare.
Sarah Jefferies
Sarah is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, and studied with Josephine Veasey and Patricia Clarke. She received many awards and prizes for Early Music, English Song, Opera and Lieder. Sarah was awarded the Ann E Lloyd Scholarship and later won a place at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam with Margreet Honig and Elly Ameling. A busy soloist in the UK and Europe, Sarah has worked at the Opera de Lyon and the Nederland Opera. She has recorded with the LPO, with conductor Kent Nagano, such varied works as Orf’s ‘Carmina Burana’ and Schonberg’s ‘Moses und Aaron’. She has a thriving teaching practice and works with choral societies and choirs of all ages. Sarah gives master-classes and workshops and greatly enjoys adjudicating.
Gaynor Keeble
Mezzo Soprano, Gaynor won scholarships to the University of Warwick and Royal Academy of Music. She combines a busy performing career with teaching both privately and at the University of Warwick; recent operatic engagements having included Rome and the USA. A member of Welsh National Opera for three years, she has worked for the Royal Opera, Opera North, D’Oyly Carte, Mid-Wales and English Touring Opera. Concerts have included the London Mozart Players, London Bach Orchestra, CBSO Royal Philharmonic and The Philharmonia. In 2001 she won the London Lieder Prize. In 2009 she was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Malcom Green
Malcom studied clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won many prizes as well as a First Class degree and the Recital Diploma, the Academy’s highest performing award. Earlier this year he relinquished his post as Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion at a leading independent school in order to devote more time to performing and adjudicating. His performance experience includes recitals at the Purcell Room and Harrogate Festival. He has performed with the Ulster and English National Opera orchestras and is still active as a player. He has been involved with Bedfordshire Music Festival for over thirty five years and is currently Vice President and Life Fellow. Previous pupils include former English test captain Alastair Cook and ‘Pub Landlord’ Al Murray!
Jeffrey Wynn Davies
A busy international adjudicator, Jeffrey spent over twenty years as a local authority Music Adviser, setting up and developing youth orchestras, bands and choral groups. A nationally recognised choral conductor, he directs Canzonetta, a former BBC Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year, and is Artistic Director of the annual summer Chester Choral Week. He was, for many years conductor of the Harrogate Choral Society, Manchester Boys Choir and the Manchester Chorale.
Speech & Drama Adjudicators
Ann Bauer
Ann is a graduate in English and has spent her working life in education, teaching in secondary and primary schools, theatres, university and therapy teams, as well as examining drama and theatre studies. Ann ran her own drama school for many years, and has now returned to mainstream education and research. She is an enthusiastic teacher of improvisation and believes strongly in the inclusive power of drama in that it offers confidence building, team work, and the discipline of controlling body, voice – and nerves. Ann combines her teaching with doctoral research into teaching maths to young people with complex special needs. She attends ballet and tap classes, a lifelong passion, and enjoys theatre going and precious time with her family.
Vivienne Redford
Vivienne has been Principal of a thriving School of Speech & Drama for over thirty years, training adults and children from across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in all aspects of performance and communication. An experienced London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) examiner and teacher, Vivienne is also Head of Speech & Drama at a large Independent Girls’ School and runs successful drama classes and summer courses, offering young adults professional instruction in performance and theatre skills. In addition, Vivienne has directed a diverse range of musical and theatrical productions and many of her former pupils are now working in theatre, film and television across the world.
Rebecca Thompson
Rebecca read Drama and English at Bristol University followed by a career in radio journalism, working in both drama and documentaries. Later Rebecca moved into teaching where she developed her speech and drama skills, working at schools and colleges in the South West of England. Rebecca continues to work in a variety of educational settings, running weekly classes, workshops and facilitating training to assist schools implement the constructive Speaking and Listening criteria. A busy festival adjudicator, Rebecca is also an adjudicator for The Rose Bowl Amateur Awards, reading and reviewing plays and musicals in seven counties throughout the south west.
Rebecca Vines
Rebecca trained as a journalist at Cardiff University, during which time she wrote a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper before moving to London to study with The Actors’ Company. Appointed Head of Speech & Drama at an Independent School in Cheltenham in 2003, her pupils have been offered training places at all the major UK acting schools – working for the BBC, Channel 4, RSC and the film production company – Working Title. She is the Founder of Close Up Theatre, which has won the elite Sell-Out Status for nine years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Artistic Director for No Prophet Theatre.
