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Alan Dean BA, LRAM, LTCL, CertEd |
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Alan Dean studied at Bretton Hall and Manchester. His teachers included Doctor Norman Andrew (piano and theoretical studies), Ellis Keeler (voice) and the renowned concert pianist/accompanist Keith Swallow. After many years as Senior Lecturer and PGCE Music Coordinator at Manchester Metropolitan University, also External Examiner to another northern university, Alan can now devote more time to the adjudicating and accompanying that he enjoys so much. Throughout his career he has been active as a director and repetiteur in opera, operetta and music theatre, resulting in frequent collaboration with some of the most eminent names in vocal music. He is equally proud of his achievements with young people, which include productions of all the major Mozart operas, Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” and the professional premiere of Anne Dalton’s “Her Benny”. Alan’s keyboard performance experience ranges from concerti to jazz. Highlights have included BBC broadcasts on the Tatton Park harpsichord, piano accompaniment at the Millennium Festival in Leeds and also at the North West Regional Championship in Liverpool. An enthusiastic, knowledgeable and entertaining speaker, Alan is much in demand with music societies, also with music-making and appreciation holidays. He greatly enjoys playing chamber music – when he can find time! Alan particularly welcomes enterprise and initiative in choice of repertoire at festivals. He is a Music Adjudicator and Accompanist Member of the British and International Federation of Festivals.
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Sheila Kent M.Sc, GNSM, LTCL, Cert. Ed. |
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Sheila Kent graduated from the Northern School of Music in Manchester before training as a teacher at Manchester University. She headed music departments in schools for over twenty years, teaching all ages, and now gives in-service training to other teachers, as well as being an associate tutor for Leicester University. The Festival movement has been part of Sheila’s life since she was a regular school-age competitor. She spent over 10 years on a Festival Committee, and still regularly enters her pupils for a wide range of classes. Sheila Kent plays chamber music and in orchestras on a freelance basis, conducts a long established choir, and has been musical director for amateur performances of many of the most popular musicals. She teaches vocal technique and a number of different instruments and is an examiner for both Music and Music Theatre for Trinity College, London. As an adjudicator she has worked at Music Festivals across the UK, and as far afield as Hong Kong and Zimbabwe.
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Philip Dewhurst BA Hons PGCE |
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Philip Dewhurst was born and educated in Bolton, Lancashire. He read music at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne under Professor Denis Matthews and specialised in performance on the oboe. After completing his degree, he completed a Post Graduate Certificate of Education after which he went into teaching full-time teaching. Philip gives occasional recitals and enjoys orchestral and chamber music playing on a freelance basis when his teaching commitments permit. As well as adjudicating at music festivals around the country, Philip is an examiner for Trinity College, London and an experienced GCSE and A level examiner and moderator. At present he is Director of Music at a leading independent school in Cheshire.
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Robin Mundy MSc., LGSM., PGCA. |
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Robin Mundy was a native of Hampshire and started playing the piano’ at the age of 5, accompanying choirs at the age of 11, made his first broadcast a year later and became a church organist when 13. He was awarded a B.Sc degree in Geography at Nottingham University, where he learnt the clarinet, and then, after doing his two years original research, gained an MSc in hydrology. He then worked for many years in the North West until 1994 when he made a ‘life change’ to concentrate on music. Robin competed for many years at music festivals wherever he was living, both as a piano soloist and choral conductor until he became an adjudicator and accompanist member for the festival movement in the early 1980’s. In this capacity he has travelled extensively throughout the U.K. and Ireland. In June 2006, he will be travelling in Sri Lanka for six weeks to adjudicate throughout the whole island at a series of competitive festivals. Robin lives in Cheshire where he has an extensive piano’ teaching practice with pupils of all abilities and ages. He is also a choral conductor of church, children’s, male and mixed voice choirs who have broadcast on national radio, and toured in the U.S.A., Sweden, Germany and his male voice choir had their own T.V. programme in Finland! When he is not conducting or teaching the piano, he prepares individual singers and instrumentalists for local, national and international competitions. Robin is looking forward to returning to the festival and firmly believes that all music is there to be enjoyed. So start practising, wear a smile and come and enjoy yourselves!
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