Music
This site is presently under continuous development. Paging on from here, you will find all music adjudicators in alphabetical order. On the instrument pages the adjudicators are not necessarily in alpha order in the interests of fairness.
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Alan Dean
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Alan was educated at Manchester Grammar, the Royal Northern College of Music and Bretton Hall with Norman Andrew, Ellis Keeler and Keith Swallow. He … Read more
Richard Deering
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Richard has been an adjudicator member of BIFF for over 30 years adjudicating an average of 12 festivals a year, including many overseas festivals, … Read more
Julia Dewhurst
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With more than 12 years’ experience, Julia is in increasing demand as a vocal adjudicator having visited, and re-visited, festivals throughout the UK and … Read more
Philip Dewhurst
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Philip read music at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne under Professor Denis Matthews where he specialised in performance on the oboe. He completed a Post … Read more
Caroline Diffley
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Caroline studied at the Royal College of Music and spent a term at the Academia Chigiana in Siena. Her first teaching post was at … Read more
Sam Dunkley
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Sam studied at the University of Huddersfield. He has gone on to sing for Opera North, in their commission ‘Songs at the Years End’, … Read more
Frances Eagar
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Frances studied piano and clarinet at the Royal College of Music. Under the guidance of David Parkhouse, she won the Kathleen Long Chamber Music … Read more
Ann Frances Ellis
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Ann-Frances won a Junior Exhibition to study recorder and clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music, completing her musical education at the Guildhall School … Read more
Christopher Elton
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Christopher received most of his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music, where he gained the Academy’s highest performing award, the DipRAM, on … Read more
Elizabeth Emberson
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Soprano soloist, teacher of voice and choral conductor, Elizabeth began voice lessons with Betty Middleton when she was 11 years old, gaining many prizes … Read more