Adjudicator & Accompanist Directory

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Patricia Mulligan, Adjudicator: Speech and Drama

Patricia has been involved in the festival movement from an early age, performing in festivals and feiseanna all over... Find out more

Jean-Marc Perret, Adjudicator: Speech and Drama

Jean-Marc trained at Elmhurst Ballet School, London Studio Centre and at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

He... Find out more

Melanie Spanswick, Adjudicator: Music

Melanie is a British pianist, writer, teacher, composer and adjudicator, who has authored best-selling books on many aspects... Find out more

John Foster, Adjudicator: Music

John studied piano with Kendall Taylor and Dennis Matthews (masterclasses). He has worked extensively as accompanist for... Find out more

Alison Marlow, Adjudicator: Dance

Alison is the founder and CEO of National Performing Arts Alliance (NPAA), a dynamic and innovative awarding organisation.... Find out more

Heidi Fardell, Adjudicator: Music

Woodwind specialist, recorder player and ensemble coach Heidi Fardell is a professional performer and inclusive music... Find out more

Maxine Percy, Adjudicator: Dance

Maxine trained at Northern Ballet School where she gained her teaching qualifications in ISTD Ballet, Tap, Modern and... Find out more

Claire Lloyd, Festival: Music
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Claire Lloyd, Board of Trustees: Music
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Joanne Fletcher, Adjudicator: Dance

Joanne trained at her mother's school, De Haviland Dance Studios, Hastings, and then opened her own school Rye Dance... Find out more

Frith Trezevant, Adjudicator: Music

Frith is career teacher with over 30 years’ experience of teaching singers of all abilities and over a wide age range. Her... Find out more

Jacqueline Brunjes, Festival: Dance

Jacquie Brunjes is a multifaceted artist and choreographer, currently serving as Chair of All England Dance & UK Young... Find out more

Richard Deering, Adjudicator: Music

Richard has been an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals for over 40 years,... Find out more

Vicki Durning, Adjudicator: Dance

Vicki trained under the highly regarded Maureen Law where she gained great experience in performing at festival and... Find out more

Irene Grant-Jones, Adjudicator: Music

Irene is a specialist singing adjudicator and teacher based in Bedford.

Regularly coaching pupils for auditions,... Find out more

Ellen Weeks, Festival: Speech and Drama

Coming from an Isle of Wight family that can trace its roots back to 1563, Ellen is deeply committed to her local community... Find out more

John Hester, Adjudicator: Speech and Drama

John trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and began work as an actor in 1979. He has also been a speech and... Find out more

Stanley Roocroft MBE, Adjudicator: Music

Stanley Roocroft of Gayle, near Hawes, North Yorkshire, educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, was a... Find out more

Tim, Accompanist

Tim studied music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, but he has now been based in Manchester as a freelance musician... Find out more

Michael Ball, Adjudicator: Music

Michael was a Vaughan Williams Trust Scholar at the Royal College of Music where he studied composition with Herbert Howells... Find out more

Melanie Ragge, Adjudicator: Music

Melanie’s musical passions lie in chamber music and education. Originally a medical student, she graduated with an MPhil in... Find out more

Michelle Shore, Festival: Speech and Drama

I like to dance

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Gill Johnston, Adjudicator: Music

Gillian studied the bassoon with Archie Camden at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and, after a period of freelance... Find out more

Nicholas Garman, Adjudicator: Music

Nicholas’ passion for music making and teaching is fuelled by his own early musical experiences, starting with his first... Find out more

Jacqui Ison, Adjudicator: Dance

Jacqui Ison
MA (Dist.) BA (Hons), (First Class), FISTD, FIDTA, RAD (RTS)
Jacqui has spent most of her life... Find out more