Adjudicators 2021
PIANO: Timothy Barratt. Saturday 30 April, Sunday 1 May and Monday 2 May (Bank Holiday) 2022
Timothy Barratt studied on a Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, winning many major awards, and completed his studies with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris and Geoffrey Parsons. He has toured and broadcast extensively in the UK and abroad as soloist, accompanist and chamber music player. Whilst still a student he developed a special interest in song accompaniment through playing for Masterclasses at Aldeburgh, subsequently partnering such artists as Dame Felicity Lott and Robert White. Teaching forms a major part of his musical life and he works with pupils of all ages and levels from beginner to post-graduate. He was Head of Keyboard at Dulwich College for almost 25 years whilst also teaching at the RAM and TCM and now pursues a busy freelance career. An ABRSM examiner since 1991, he is also a Trainer, Moderator and Mentor. Other work for the AB includes selecting the graded Piano pieces and presenting Seminars. He frequently directs Masterclasses for performers and teachers’ workshops in the UK and Far East and is in demand as a Competition and Festival adjudicator.
SINGING: Julia Dewhurst. Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May 2022
A lyric-coloratura soprano, Julia Dewhurst has appeared nationally and internationally on the concert and opera stage in an ongoing performing career spanning over 30 years. Her repertoire is wide-ranging, from Early Music to first performances of contemporary works. She has extensive and relevant teaching experience across the entire age-range and was for many years a visiting singing specialist in a London primary school working at Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 levels and leading voice care workshops for teachers. She has been a popular and much sought-after vocal adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals for some 20 years. Julia has a keen interest in helping singers to develop their own distinctive vocal personality in performance across all vocal genres. Julia is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, the Association of Teachers of Singing, the British Voice Association, the Association of English Singers and Speakers for whom she has judged both the Patricia Routledge Competition and the Courtney Kenny Prize and she is a Friend of the Society of the Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
CHOIRS: Eileen Field. Saturday 30 April 2022
Eileen Field studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and has since had extensive experience as a soprano soloist, piano accompanist and choral conductor. She is a grade and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, also moderating examiners and helping to train new examiners. In 2007 she was appointed Consultant Moderator and she is the Lead Consultant in the selection of repertoire for the ABRSM Singing Syllabus. She has examined and presented seminars for teachers in the UK, Southern Africa, the Far East, Bermuda and the USA, and throughout Europe, including Scandinavia, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Turkey and Poland. Eileen maintains a substantial private teaching for adults and children from beginners to post-graduate level in London and gives masterclasses for solo singers and choirs, working with among others, students at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts in Iceland. Her work as a long-established adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals takes her all over the British Isles and Ireland. She was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1998.
STRINGS: Oliver Gledhill. Monday 2 May 2022(Bank Holiday)
Oliver Gledhill was a Foundation Scholar at University College School and an Entrance Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music. For a time he read Classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has a Masters degree with Distinction in Music Teaching in Private/Professional Practice from Reading University/ISM with a focus on parental involvement in practising and a Doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music/University of London on W.H. Squire, his cello miniatures and the portamento. Oliver has recorded nine CDs for Rhinosaurus, Guild and Naxos/British Music Society, notably the cello works of Boëllmann (BBC Music Magazine 5 Stars) and W.H. Squire 20 cello miniatures which reached the Specialist Classical Chart and was featured on Classic FM.
Dr Gledhill has edited for Peters Edition and Durand, is an Examiner for Trinity College London and an Adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals. His pupil successes include Most Promising String Player awards at the Bedfordshire, Chelmsford, Hatfield, Southend and Watford Music Festivals, the winner of Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize 2020 and the only cello finalist in the Strings Category of BBC Young Musician 2020. Oliver Gledhill teaches at Junior Guildhall, privately in London and online to all locations worldwide.
Timothy Barratt studied on a Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, winning many major awards, and completed his studies with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris and Geoffrey Parsons. He has toured and broadcast extensively in the UK and abroad as soloist, accompanist and chamber music player. Whilst still a student he developed a special interest in song accompaniment through playing for Masterclasses at Aldeburgh, subsequently partnering such artists as Dame Felicity Lott and Robert White. Teaching forms a major part of his musical life and he works with pupils of all ages and levels from beginner to post-graduate. He was Head of Keyboard at Dulwich College for almost 25 years whilst also teaching at the RAM and TCM and now pursues a busy freelance career. An ABRSM examiner since 1991, he is also a Trainer, Moderator and Mentor. Other work for the AB includes selecting the graded Piano pieces and presenting Seminars. He frequently directs Masterclasses for performers and teachers’ workshops in the UK and Far East and is in demand as a Competition and Festival adjudicator.
SINGING: Julia Dewhurst. Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May 2022
A lyric-coloratura soprano, Julia Dewhurst has appeared nationally and internationally on the concert and opera stage in an ongoing performing career spanning over 30 years. Her repertoire is wide-ranging, from Early Music to first performances of contemporary works. She has extensive and relevant teaching experience across the entire age-range and was for many years a visiting singing specialist in a London primary school working at Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 levels and leading voice care workshops for teachers. She has been a popular and much sought-after vocal adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals for some 20 years. Julia has a keen interest in helping singers to develop their own distinctive vocal personality in performance across all vocal genres. Julia is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, the Association of Teachers of Singing, the British Voice Association, the Association of English Singers and Speakers for whom she has judged both the Patricia Routledge Competition and the Courtney Kenny Prize and she is a Friend of the Society of the Teachers of the Alexander Technique.
CHOIRS: Eileen Field. Saturday 30 April 2022
Eileen Field studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and has since had extensive experience as a soprano soloist, piano accompanist and choral conductor. She is a grade and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, also moderating examiners and helping to train new examiners. In 2007 she was appointed Consultant Moderator and she is the Lead Consultant in the selection of repertoire for the ABRSM Singing Syllabus. She has examined and presented seminars for teachers in the UK, Southern Africa, the Far East, Bermuda and the USA, and throughout Europe, including Scandinavia, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Turkey and Poland. Eileen maintains a substantial private teaching for adults and children from beginners to post-graduate level in London and gives masterclasses for solo singers and choirs, working with among others, students at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts in Iceland. Her work as a long-established adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals takes her all over the British Isles and Ireland. She was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 1998.
STRINGS: Oliver Gledhill. Monday 2 May 2022(Bank Holiday)
Oliver Gledhill was a Foundation Scholar at University College School and an Entrance Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music. For a time he read Classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has a Masters degree with Distinction in Music Teaching in Private/Professional Practice from Reading University/ISM with a focus on parental involvement in practising and a Doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music/University of London on W.H. Squire, his cello miniatures and the portamento. Oliver has recorded nine CDs for Rhinosaurus, Guild and Naxos/British Music Society, notably the cello works of Boëllmann (BBC Music Magazine 5 Stars) and W.H. Squire 20 cello miniatures which reached the Specialist Classical Chart and was featured on Classic FM.
Dr Gledhill has edited for Peters Edition and Durand, is an Examiner for Trinity College London and an Adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals. His pupil successes include Most Promising String Player awards at the Bedfordshire, Chelmsford, Hatfield, Southend and Watford Music Festivals, the winner of Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize 2020 and the only cello finalist in the Strings Category of BBC Young Musician 2020. Oliver Gledhill teaches at Junior Guildhall, privately in London and online to all locations worldwide.
