Adjudicators

Music:

Luise Horrocks MA(Oxon) PGCE ARCM PGCA (Vocal) MORE

Oliver Gledhill MA (Mtpp) PGCA ARCM (Strings) MORE

Malcolm Rudland FRCO, ARAM, ARCM LGSM MORE

Alan McClean, DipMusEdRSAMD,FTCL,PGCE (Piano) MORE

Helen Sanderson (Guitars) MORE

Elizabeth Childs GRSM (Hons) LRAM (Woodwind, Recorders and Brass) MORE

Speech & Drama:

Marie Dixon FLCM.LLCM (Performance) GGSM(Teaching) MSTSD MORE

Folk, Creative and Freestyle Dance:

Susan Latham FIDTA, AISTD, PGCA MORE

 

 

 

SUE LATHAM trained with the late Madame Helena Lehmiski and after completing a teacher training course, she taught at the Birmingham Theatre School. During this time she danced professionally in and around the Midlands. In 1966 she opened her first school in Birmingham and was also asked to choreograph many productions with Operatic Societies and professional shows in the county. Since then many of her students have graduated to examining, teaching or professional work, including West End Productions and Television. Twenty three years ago Sue opened a school in Redditch, Worcestershire and has recently moved to premises within the scenic grounds of a haunted castle (or so they say!!). As an examiner and adjudicator she has travelled to many parts of the world, including Australia, Cyprus, Holland and Norway. In the summer of 1998, she was very honoured and privileged to be asked to adjudicate the very first dance festival to be held in Sri Lanka. This proved to be most successful and she was asked back again in the Spring of 1999. Sue is also on the panel of adjudicators for All England Dance and the British Federation of Festivals and has also obtained her Post Graduate Certificate in Adjudication. Sue is no stranger to the Herefordshire Festival and we are pleased to welcome her back.

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LUISE HORROCKS studied singing on an Advanced Studies at the Royal College of Music after graduating with a degree in English from Oxford University. She has performed extensively as a Soprano Soloist throughout the UK and Europe. While specialising primarily in Oratorio, she has also given many Song Recitals and has appeared on the opera stage at Buxton Opera House. She has also sung in a series of concerts and Recitals in South Africa and the USA and her wide repertoire extends from works by Monteverdi to Stravinsky. She has made several recordings and her BBC broadcasts include performances of Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and works by Goehr. Luise has held positions as a teacher in both the Junior and Senior departments of the Birmingham Conservatoire and as a visiting lecturer at Birmingham University. She runs an extensive private teaching practice and is regularly asked to give Masterclasses. She works as a Vocal Coach on several residential courses for singers and is a mentor on the CT ABRSM panel. She has also trained and conducted the Wyre Forest Young Voices choir. As an adjudicator member of the British & International Federation of Festivals she has wide experience of many different festivals. Luise has also travelled widely as a Senior Examiner for Trinity Guildhall, having special responsibility for singing, which includes working on syllabus setting, training new examiners and leading Teacher Workshops. We are please to welcome Luise to the Herefordshire Performing Arts Festival for the first time.

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OLIVER GLEDHILL, cellist, was a Scholar at the Guildhall School of Music and won numerous awards including the ISTEL/Redditch Music Society Competition. He studied with many eminent cellists including William Pleeth, Edmund Kurtz and Andre Navarra. He has given acclaimed recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, including three in the Kirckman Concert Society Series. Festival appearances have included solo performances in England, France, Italy, Mallorca and the Czech Republic. Oliver has recorded eight CD’s, including the complete works for cello by Leon Boellmann, which was awarded five stars for performance by the BBC Music Magazine and has been played on ABC Classic FM (Australian Radio) and RTBF musiq3 (Belgian Radio). Oliver Gledhill is a Professor of Cello at Junior Guildhall and also teaches at Mill Hill School and Chigwell School. He has edited music for Peters Edition and Durand. His published writings include articles and reviews for The Strad Magazine and the British Journal of Music Education. He is an examiner for Trinity Guildhall, for whom he selected and revised both the 2009 Cello Diploma and Cello Grade Syllabuses. As an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals, he has Adjudicated at over eighty festivals. Oliver was with us some years ago and we are pleased to welcome him back to Hereford.

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ALAN MacLEAN graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in 1978, receiving the award for the most outstanding student. After further study with internationally renowned pianists, including Karl Schnabel, he embarked upon a career which has included solo and concerto performances throughout the UK and recordings and broadcasts on radio and television. He is much in demand as a chamber musician, having played with many of the country's leading instrumentalists, and recently has appeared at Malvern, Hailes, Three Choirs and Cheltenham International Festivals. In the mid-nineties, Albany Records approached Alan MacLean and Peter Lawson with the idea of exploring the wealth of twentieth century music written for piano duet. Their first recording, English Music for Piano Duet, received critical acclaim and a Disc of the Year nomination, moving one critic to write, “I cannot recall ever hearing a piano duo with such perfect unanimity before. “Peter Lawson and Alan MacLean appear to be in total sympathy not just with one another, but with all the music they play.” (International Record Review). Similar accolades followed on release of their second album, British Music for Piano Duet. His most recent venture was a recording of John Field’s Concertino for Piano and Strings, with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. After 20 years as Head of Keyboard Studies at The Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Alan left to develop further a number of musical projects. He gives master classes for young pianists and chamber music players, and regularly speaks and adjudicates at a wide range of music events. We are very pleased that Alan has been able to accept our invitation to join us at the Herefordshire Festival for the first time.

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HELEN SANDERSON studied guitar at the Royal College of Music with Charles Ramirez, graduating with both the Madeline Walton prize for guitar and the prestigious Anthony Saltmarsh Bursary. Helen’s active concert career has included concerts at major international guitar festivals and recitals at the Purcell Room, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Academy of Arts (Berlin), the British Embassy (Vienna) and the Barbican Centre. In addition to her solo performing, Helen is a member of the VIDA Guitar Ensemble and is much in demand as an accompanist for voice and guitar repertoire, working in partnerships with Mark Wilde, Susan Legg and James Bowman. Since 2007, Helen has been the Director of the World Youth Guitar Festival and the Winchester Guitar Festival. Helen adjudicated at our Festival for the first time last year and we are pleased to welcome her back.

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ELIZABETH CHILDS is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied flute with Gareth Morris and piano with Graeme Humphrey. Whilst at the RAM she performed regularly with all the orchestras, and was also engaged in many internal and external teaching projects, a subject that has always interested Elizabeth. International engagements have taken her to both the USA and to many parts of Europe and she has performed extensively throughout the UK as a soloist, recitalist and orchestral player. From 1987 to 1994, Elizabeth was principal flute with the Sinfonia of Scotland, Dundee Opera and Dundee and Perth Light Operatic Company which complimented her work for both ‘Travel Scotland’ and a busy teaching schedule. She has recorded programmes for the Open University and children’s programmes and gives Organ duo recitals with her husband. Elizabeth has a broad and extensive teaching and performing career. She has successfully prepared pupils for scholarships to leading public schools, Junior Conservatoires and Specialist Music Schools and now has many ex-students working in the profession. She regularly directs summer schools and other courses for young wind players. Currently Elizabeth is engaged in a busy teaching schedule which includes Wells Cathedral School, UEA in Norwich, is Flautist in Quintessimo, plays with Aurelian Ensemble, is part of the management team for Harpenden Musicale, Flute Tutor for The National Children’s Wind Orchestra of Great Britain and directs several successful flute choirs. One of her main aims is to provide as many performing opportunities for all her pupils as possible and firmly believes that encouraging children to perform, enhances and benefits all areas of their education. Elizabeth, who is married with 3 grown up children, regards it as an enormous privilege to sit on the Board of the BIFF along with the role as Chair of the Adjudicators Council. She, herself, grew up in the Hull and Hornsea Festivals and knows first hand how valuable these experiences are. In 2009 Elizabeth adjudicated in Sri Lanka and in 2010 she spent a month at the 62nd Hong Kong Schools Festival as well as at many UK Festivals. She is also a full member of the ISM and a committee member of the Hitchin Festival of the Arts. Elizabeth is delighted to have been invited to adjudicate at the Herefordshire Performing Arts Festival and wishes everyone well in their preparations. We, in Hereford, are delighted that she has been able to join us for the first time

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MALCOLM RUDLAND, Fellow of the Royal College of Organist, studied with Donald Hunt, Herbert Sumsion, Douglas Hawkridge and Andre Marchal. He has appeared on BBC TV, Radio and with many orchestras, including at the Proms, and has been an organ tutor on ships around Africa and the Falkland Islands. Pieces have been written for him by Paul Patterson and Michael Berkeley and he gave the first East European performance of Petr Eben’s Job. Mr. Rudland has conducted tours of Fiddler on the Roof and West Side Story and a Warlock and Bartok concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Oxford Orchestra da Camera. He is Hon. Secretary to the Peter Warlock Society and has written for The Musical Times and The Times.

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MARIE DIXON has been involved with the Theatre since early childhood with regular performances in Lancashire Comedy and Liturgical plays and she wrote and directed pantomimes for several years. Following this she played in Musical Theatre - Carousel, Sound of Music, Anything Goes and Pyjama Game, eventually becoming a member of Equity and appearing in Television and Theatre. She eventually formed her own Music Hall Company. Marie qualified as a speech and drama teacher in 1975 and has had her own Speech and Drama studios in Sale, Cheshire. She has worked extensively in schools writing, directing and advising staff on the techniques of good speech and has directed drama projects for the Greater Manchester Police at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. She is in her seventh season as a tutor for the Betty Yagar Drama School, Lincoln and she is in constant demand for her workshops on Speech Technique. Marie was accepted as a member of the British and International Federation of Festivals in 1985 and is now the Vice-Chair of the Speech and Drama adjudicators. In this work she has travelled the UK and visited Northern Ireland with several visits to Hong Kong. She is also the North West Area Representative for the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama. Marie delights in the rhythm of dynamic speech and believes that your voice is your passport to success in life! Marie says .... Good Luck to all who enter the Festival Movement - because you are working for success - you will be successful. Be Confident! Be Happy! Be Clear! We say .... welcome back Marie.

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