2009 Adjudicators and Accompanists - Biographical Notes

ADJUDICATORS

BARRY CLARK, MA, GRSM, LRAM, ARCM, LGSM, DipEd

KAY TUCKER, AGSM, ARCM, LTCL, PGCE, PGCA

GAYNOR KEEBLE, BEd, ARCM, ALCM

ACCOMPANISTS

ROSEMARY M LANG, GRSM, LRAM, ARCM, LGSM, LTCL, DipEd London

Rosemary Lang was born and educated in Scotland. She trained at the Royal Academy of Music studying piano with Michael Head. After attending the Institute of Education in London she started her teaching career and was later appointed Head of Music at Faringdon Girls Grammar School. She also taught piano for many years at Abingdon School and at Our Lady’s Convent, Abingdon. At present she accompanies for Swindon Music Festival and is Competitions Director for Wantage Music Festival. She has been for many years an accompanist member of the British and International Federation of Festivals.

PAUL TURNER, ARAM, GRSM (Hons), LRAM, ARCM

Paul Turner is an Honours Graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, where his many prizes and awards culminated in the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence and the Peter Pears Accompaniment Prize. He has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), a discretionary award only given to distinguished past students.

As a concert pianist, his work is increasingly taking him abroad, (Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Berlin, Bremen, Valencia and Paris) as well as to London’s leading venues and UK Festivals. Recent work has included a performance of the Brahms Quintet with the Emperor Quartet, a Wigmore Hall recital with Patricia Rozario and a series of concerts celebrating the songs of Duparc at St. John’s, Smith Square. Artists involved included singers Susan Bickley, William Dazeley and Maarten Koningsberger, and instrumentalists Michael Collins, Madeleine Mitchell and Thomas Carroll. Paul has also made live broadcasts on BBC radio 3 (In Tune) and appeared at the World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia with the Northern Saxophone Quartet. His recordings for flute and piano, saxophone and piano and solo piano have been released by Prologue to critical acclaim.

In addition to his busy concert schedule, Paul is a visiting piano teacher to Marlborough College in Wiltshire and is increasingly in demand as a coach and adjudicator (most recently for the National Chamber Music for Schools Competition). He is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Swindon Recital Series, which brings internationally known classical musicians to the area.