MUSIC - ADJUDICATOR 2006

Christina Thompson, LRAM, ARCM, GRSM, PGCA.

Christina Thompson attended the Royal Academy of Music after leaving the National Youth Orchestra. A fascinating career as a horn player in Germany followed. She returned to London in 1984 to perform chamber music, she became a soloist with several chamber orchestras and taught at Harrow and the Purcell school.

In 1991 she returned to her home town of Ripon, where she teaches at the Ripon Choir School and Ampleforth College, as well as having an extensive private teaching practice encompassing ages 5 to 70. After she was robbed of her emboucher in an incident in 2000 she retired from professional playing and concentrates on pedology.

 She is internationally in demand as an adjudicator, and examines for the Associated Board as well as being a Brass Specialist Mentor for the Board’s Professional Development Course. She enjoys high level mountain walking in the Austrian Alps as an antidote to the hectic life she leads.