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Emanuel Trophy Piano Competition
Vanessa Latarche ARCM FTCL is an international pianist who has won several competitions and scholarships and spent time studying in the USA and in France. Her performances have been the subject of BBC broadcasts and have been recorded. Vanessa is Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal College of Music. She is a founder member of “Children Helping Children’s Concerts” raising money for children’s charities.
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Frank Wibaut is an international pianist and teacher. He has played in over thirty countries and performed fifty-five concertos with orchestras all over the world. He was professor of piano at the RCM and the RAM and the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. Now back in London he is a visiting professor in eleven countries and a jury member of many international competitions.
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Piano
Graeme Humphrey came from New Zealand on a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he developed particular interests in chamber music, accompanying and teaching. He has broadcast many times on Radio 3 and performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and throughout the UK. Since 1974 he has been a Professor at the RAM; he travels the world teaching, adjudicating and examining, and also maintains a substantial private teaching practice. He is Music Director of the Hereford International Summer School.
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Ian Jones ARCM BMus DipRCM was awarded a scholarship to study the piano at the Royal College of Music where he won all the main prizes including the prestigious Chappell Gold Medal. Ian continued his studies in the USA and Canada, and the French Government awarded him an unprecedented scholarship to spend for a year in Paris. In 1993 he was a prize winner at the Leeds International Piano Competition and was awarded the accolade of the title ‘Steinway Artist’ His CD recordings have been broadcast all over the world, and he now combines his highly successful performing career with teaching (currently at RCM Jun. Dept. and Purcell School), examining and occasionally composing
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Choirs & Vocal Ensembles
Colin Howard studied piano, conducting, cello and singing at the Royal College of Music, where he was President of the Student Union and won the Bonner Scholarship and Adrian Boult Prize. He started his musical career as a chorister in Oxford and has sung with many cathedral, church and chamber choirs since. As tenor soloist he has made a special study of the Evangelist role in Bach’s Passions; German lieder and English song are also important elements of his repertoire. He has worked with many choirs and orchestras, and directed first performances of works by Nicholas Maw, John Rutter and John Tavener. As accompanist he has given recitals with Thomas Hemsley and Stephen Isserlis amongst others. He is well known as an adjudicator and examiner, Chorus Master of the Two Moors Festival and Musical Director of The National Chamber Music Course.
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Singing
Linda Hirst studied flute and singing at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Her career began during the early music revival of the 1970s with Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and David Munrow. From 1974-78 she was a Swingle Singer, and then co-founded Electric Phoenix. She travelled the world with both groups and became internationally renowned, especially for her performances of contemporary music. She has worked closely with such composers as Ligeti, Henze, Osborne, Knussen and Muldowney. She has also been involved with education throughout her career, gives many masterclasses in this country and abroad, and has been Head of the Vocal Faculty at Trinity College since 1995.
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Strings and Orchestras
Nigel Goldberg (violin) has had a varied musical career. Whilst still at the Guildhall School of Music he formed the Goldberg Piano Trio and went on to freelance with many London orchestras as well as leading the orchestra for the West End musical ‘Miss Saigon’ and the Johann Strauss orchestra. During that time he was appointed as one of the youngest members of staff at the Watford School of Music and as Artistic Director at Young Music Makers. Besides having a private teaching practice in North London, Nigel is a visiting teacher at the Latymer School and Artistic Director of Youth Music Centre.
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Robert Max (cello) enjoys a colourful career as soloist, chamber-musician and conductor performing throughout the UK, in Europe, Russia and the USA, and is currently celebrating the 20th birthday of his Barbican Piano Trio with three concerts at the Wigmore Hall. He is Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and regularly conducts orchestras at Royal Holloway (University of London), the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and Arad Philharmonic Orchestra in western Romania. He teaches cello at the Junior Academy, coaches chamber music at MusicWorks and is principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra.
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Woodwind and Brass
James Mainwaring studied clarinet and saxophone at the Royal Academy of Music. Since then he has added flute playing to his repertoire and has developed a career in musical theatre augmented by orchestral playing, big bands and commercial music. He is currently playing in ‘Billy Elliot’ at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, and has a busy teaching programme including coaching the National Children’s Orchestra.
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Harps
Frances Kelly trained on the modern harp and has a music degree from Cambridge University, She has spent many years playing a wide range of music from medieval to contemporary, orchestral, ballet, opera, solo and particularly chamber music. She is now a leading exponent of early harps, and her work with many distinguished early music ensembles has taken her throughout Europe and to the USA, China and Japan. She also enjoys a busy teaching practice both at home and at Trinity College of Music.
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Sioned Williams is Principal Harpist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position she combines with recitals, concerti, recording, teaching, adjudicating, researching and reviewing. Sioned’s extensive repertoire includes rediscovered works and countless premiers. Apart from her award winning solo CDs, she has performed and recorded with many of the worlds leading instrumentalists, singers and choirs on EMI, Hyperion, Collins Classics, and Meridian. Renowned as a teacher, Sioned gives masterclasses worldwide, and has received four Fellowships for her contribution to music in Britain.
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Speech and Drama
Stephen Owen trained as a teacher specialising in Drama Speech & Movement and went on to gain further specialist diplomas in all aspects of Speech & Drama. In addition to being responsible for Drama in schools in which he taught, he has also had private pupils and for many years was an examiner for the Poetry Society and the English Speaking Board as well as adjudicating at many festivals. For 22 years headteacher of a primary school in Derbyshire, he is now retired and working on a Doctorate in Education. Other retirement plans include a lot of Speech & Drama work and teaching his grandson to swim.
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