MUSIC - ADJUDICATOR 2008

Gareth Green, MA(Oxon), MA(Leeds), FRCO(CHM), FLCM, ARCM.

Gareth Green achieved his first musical diplomas at the age of fifteen. By the age of eighteen, he had collected the Dixon and Turpin prizes for FRCO and was already engaged as a recitalist around Europe. Following his time as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, Gareth spent a year at St.Paul's Cathedral in London as Organ Scholar, before going up to Worcester College, Oxford, again as Organ Scholar.

On graduation, he became Organ Scholar at Canterbury Cathedral before taking up the position of Assistant Organist at Wakefield Cathedral in 1983. In 1985 he was appointed Director of Music at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, leaving in 1990 to pursue his freelance interests as an organ recitalist, accompanist, adjudicator, Associate Board examiner and composer/arranger.

He has also worked for the BBC Religious Broadcasting as a musical director for 'Daily Service' and as an organist and pianist on 'Songs of Praise', 'Sunday Half Hour', 'Chorister of the Year Finals' etc.

Gareth has released various recordings, both as a soloist and choral accompanist, and his musical endeavours have taken him as far a field as America, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is one of the two choral directors for the popular 'Come and Sing' weekends organised by 'Music matters', at which new participants are always welcome.

Gareth is a member of the panel of trainers for the Associated Board and is one of their International Co-ordinators. He offers consultation lessons at his home in South Yorkshire and does plenty of coaching with singers and instrumentalists. He also teaches theory of music online/by correspondence. In his spare time he enjoys reading, walking, swimming and consuming blue Yorkie bars. You can discover more about him and about the fun-packed 'Come and Sing' weekends via his website at www.gareth-music.org.uk

Gareth Green is an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals.