Alumni

Singing, 2016

Won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021.

Piano, 1976

Awarded an OBE in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Composition, 2016

Commissioned to write a five-minute completed concert piece, to be performed in the LSO’s 2022/23 Barbican season as part of the LSO Panufnik Composers programme.

Piano Accompaniment, 2020

Offered a Repetiteur position at the National Opera Studio from September.

Viola, 2014

Signed with Wittenberg Artists in the USA.

Musical Theatre, 2020

Cast in the ensemble of The Prince of Egypt in the West End.

Piano, 2020

Released his first album The Art of Polyphony on DaVinci Publishing.

Guitar, 2006

Released a new album, The Moon & The Forest, which features works for guitar and orchestra by award-winning composers Howard Shore and Joby Talbot.

Musical Theatre, 2000

Organised a music video with performers across the industry to help raise awareness and funds for India’s COVID relief

Composition, 1967

A new recording of his instrumental music has been released on Naxos, including his Oboe Sonata, which was written during his second year at the Academy.

Horn, 2007

Appointed Head of Instrument Loan Scheme at Benslow Music.

Singing, 2019

Finalist in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021.

Singing, 2019

Finalist in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021.

Composition, 2010

Released new album This Departing Landscape on NMC Recordings.

Violin, 2015

Released a debut album Sympathetic Vibrations.

Bass Trombone, 2005

Recognised as one of 25 artists who have engineered the cultural transformation of British jazz over the past four decades in a book by David Burke entitled Giant Steps: Diverse Journeys in British Jazz.

Clarinet, 1970

Directed the chamber ensemble Gemini in their latest recording entitled for clarinet and strings. Performing on the recording are several familiar Academy names including Yuko Inoue (viola professor), Jo Cole (Head of Strings) and Caroline Balding (Violin, 1985).

Trumpet, 2005

Recorded Enter Ghost by Judith Bingham.

Jazz Saxophone, 2007

Appointed an Associate Artist by Wigmore Hall for a five-year period.

Singing, 1988

Set up Opera Live at Home, a performance platform for singers and their accompanists that gives the audience a unique opportunity to engage with the artists at the end of each performance.

Piano, 2020

Winner of the 2021 Leonard Bernstein Award by the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

Choral Conducting, 2015

Appointed Studienleiter and Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, Germany.

Singing, 2018

Won second prize at the 2020 Kathleen Ferrier Award competition.

Singing, 2019

Won second prize at Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin.

Composition, 2015

His work for solo alto recorder, Diaries of the Early Worm, won the Solo or Duo category at the Ivors Composer Awards 2020.

Violin, 2017

Awarded the Gold medal at the 2020 ROSL Annual Music Competition final.

Composition, 2012

Released new album We’re Done For (And Other Responses).

Organ, 1986

Recently appointed Organist in Residence and Choir Director at St. Thomas Aquinas, Charlottesville, Parish to the University of Virginia.

Organ, 2003

Appointed Professor at Frederic Chopin University of Music, Warsaw.

Composition, 2016

Awarded the Mozaik Philanthropy Future Art Awards prize for his multimedia video installation piece Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free which was written in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA.

Tuba, 1971

Awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2020.

Piano, 1973

Published biography of Francis Poulenc, Poulenc: The Life in Songs.

Oboe, 1983

Awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list 2020.

Cello, 2019

Won the Digital Creative Award at the ISA Digital Festival in Vienna for her work Heroes: the Shadows of a Tragic Mind.

Composition, 1967

New recording Complete Music for Solo Piano by Edward Gregson, performed by Murray McLachlan, released on Naxos.

Organ, 2014

Debut album Mellow Mind released in August 2020.

Violin, 2010

Curated Many Voices on a Theme of Isolation, an album raising funds for Help Musicians, featuring 18 artists including Academy professor Rachel Podger. The campaign has raised over £24,000 for musicians in need.

Composition, 2018

Selected for the 2020-21 RPS composer programme.

Composition, 2012

Selected for the 2020-21 RPS composer programme.

Piano Accompaniment, 1986

Featured on new recording of David Lewiston Sharpe's 60-minute song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano, In the Tavern of Sweet Songs.

Piano Accompaniment, 2017

New album of French repertoire for violin and piano, Les Saisons Françaises, released on Stone Records.

Piano Accompaniment, 2013

Awarded 1st prize at the 2020 Mahler International Conducting Competition.

Musical Theatre, 2018

Cast in world premiere of Orfeus: A House Music Opera at the Young Vic.

Horn, 2019

Appointed Principal Horn of the BBC Philharmonic.

Singing (Baritone/Bass), 2018

Accepted on the 2020 Salzburger Festspiele Young Singer's Programme and joining the studio of the Vienna State Opera for two years from September 2020.

Piano Accompaniment, 2008

Appointed General Music Director at the Pforzheim Theatre, in Baden-Württemberg, starting in September 2020.

Conducting, 2014

Appointed Music Director of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia, USA.

Organ, 2004

Appointed Director of Music and Organist at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, USA.

Piano Accompaniment, 2001

Commissioned by BBC Proms to write a unique First Night arrangement for a Grand Virtual Orchestra to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.

Composition, 2009

One of seven composers commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to write a movement of an a cappella work for choir entitled Seven Ages of Woman, broadcast on International Women's Day.

Musical Theatre, 2019

Cast in the ensemble of Bring It On The Musical tour.

Musical Theatre, 2009

Cast in new Cinderella film to be released in February 2021.