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Adjudicators 2010
Dr Mark Tanner PhD MA FTCL FRSA Hon.BC (Keyboard)
Mark Tanner was born in Bristol in 1963. His first tentative solo appearance at Bristol’s Colston Hall, aptly described as “intrepid” by the Bristol Evening Post, came at the age of 13, and shortly after he appeared on BBC TV, playing Liszt. He studied piano with Gwyn Pritchard, Geoffrey Buckley, Philip Martin and Richard McMahon, gaining his PhD from the Birmingham Conservatoire in 1999.
He has appeared in many of Britain’s most favoured recital halls, including five successive appearances at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St John’s Smith Square in London as well as a number of prominent educational establishments including the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, the RWCMD, Birmingham Conservatoire and recently at Chethams International Summer School for Pianists. He also appeared at St George’s Bristol with duo partner Allan Schiller as part of the Mozart 250 celebrations. For a number of years Mark has been a popular recitalist on cruise liners around the globe. He has broadcast several premières live on BBC Radio 3 and his recordings have attracted consistently high critical acclaim.
His special interest in British music has led to commissioned works from a number of revered composers including John McLeod, Philip Martin, Graham Lynch, Paul ‘Harry’ Harris, Colin Decio, Frederick Stocken and Andrew Wilson-Dickson. Mark is music critic for a number of prominent journals, having contributed to International Record Review, Classical Music, Musical Opinion, International Piano and Piano Professional. He has published scholarly articles in the USA and UK, including 19th Century Music and the Liszt Society Journal, and edited contemporary several music scores for Peters Edition and Griffin Music. His eight-volume series for piano entitled Eye-Tunes (100 pieces in all) has just been published in 2009 by Spartan Press.
He is an international examiner of grades and diplomas for the ABRSM, having undertaken seven tours to Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, New Zealand, USA, Canada, N. Ireland and Cyprus, with imminent tours to Sri Lanka, Turkey and Switzerland. He adjudicates festivals for the British and International Federation of Festivals, twice judged the EPTA Piano Competition and has given many lectures on a diverse range of subjects as well as masterclasses in Europe and mainland China.
For sixteen years he was Assistant Director of Music at Taunton School in Somerset; he has been active in music education for 25 years.
Penny Jenkins has performed opera and oratorio throughout Europe, has broadcast for the BBC and recorded solos with the Oriana Consort, the Brighton Chamber Choir and the Neil Jenkins Chorale. She now concentrates on teaching singing to people of all ages and abilities, and loves her classes for adult singers (such as the ones at Jackdaws) called Discover Your Voice, as well as her work with juniors called Ready, Steady, Sing! She has twice been Musician in Residence for the Jackdaws Educational Trust in Somerset, working with primary and secondary school children on large-scale choral works.
For ten years she was a tutor at Summer Music, where she got to know Steven Rickards. She is now co-director, with him, of the Vocal Arts Institute at the University of Indianapolis. She has successfully trained pupils for Choral Scholarships at Cambridge University and places at London music colleges. In recent years she has been working as a vocal coach in the world of film and television, notably the Edinburgh Festival & Cannes success: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael. In 2005 she was seen training the priest in Channel 4’s documentary Priest Idol.
Janet Tuckett LLAM. GODA. PGCA. (Speech and Drama)
Janet trained at the Barbara Macrae Studio, Bristol and has taught Speech and Drama for over 40 years.
She has been an adjudicating member of the British Federation of Festivals since 1976 working at Festivals all over the UK. In 2000 she had her first experience of international adjudicating at the Hong Kong Schools' Festival. In 2004 she became an Associate of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators, so is now often involved in adjudicating One-Act and Full-Length Play Festivals.
She is also an examiner and the Registrar for Vanguard Examinations, a board which examines the full range of Poetry, Prose, Drama and Spoken English.
As well as adjudicating Janet is the Speech & Drama secretary of the Bristol Festival of Music, Speech and Drama.
Her teaching is now mainly at Badminton School, Bristol, as well as in private practice. In past years she has run a Youth Theatre Group, "Blue Lodge Drama" which won awards at the Bristol and Avon One-Act Festivals.
Experience of Festivals goes back over 50 years for Janet as she first competed in Bristol as a four-year old and even now she is a member of a Group Speaking team which performs at Festivals and gives Recitals.
Janet is looking forward to adjudicating at the Devon Performing Arts Festival and sharing in the excitement and creativity of the performers.
Viviane Ronchetti Bmus, GRSM, ARMCM (Strings)
Viviane Ronchetti won a Junior Exhibition to the Royal Manchester College of Music to study the violin with the international concert artiste, Endre Wolf, at the age of 13. She became a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain a year later and ultimately, the NYO’s sub-leader. In 1966, Viviane was awarded a place to study music at Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music concurrently. She was a pupil of Professor Alexandre Mouskovsky at the RMCM and graduated with Bachelor of Music Degree with special Honours awarded in Performance; G.R.S.M. and A.R.M.C.M. with Distinction.
After graduating, Viviane studied with Manoug Parikian and started on a career combining teaching with free-lancing with the major London chamber orchestras.
She was selected to be a founder member of the violin teaching staff at the I.L.E.A. Centre for Young Musicians at Pimlico School, and from 1986 to 1991, she was a member of the Park Lane Sextet playing chamber concerts on South Bank; at the Wigmore Hall and on BBC Radio 3.
Viviane has held Head of Strings posts at Harrow School and Queenswood School and was Professor of violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Junior department for five years from 2003 to 2008.
She is Director of the National Youth Strings Academy – founded in 1995 to promote the string orchestra repertoire and to develop the ensemble- playing skills of talented young string-players aged 9 to 21.
As a specialist Strings adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals, she travels extensively to festivals in UK. She travelled to Hong Kong in 2007 to adjudicate at the Hong Kong Schools’ Music Association Festival.
Dominic Nunns BA (Hons), PGDip (RCM) (Brass)
Dominic Nunns's work as a composer, conductor, horn-player and educator has explored rock, jazz, folk, klezmer, classic and contemporary film soundtracks, Arabic music, electronic music and rhythm-theatre with the award-winning Lost and Found Orchestra, follow-up to the global sensation STOMP.
Described by The Times as "a great British hope", Dominic Nunns is a classically trained musician with the ability to work in a wide range of styles. His critically acclaimed completion of an unfinished horn concerto by Mozart is published by Bärenreiter: the TES described this as “the ultimate seal of approval”.
He has performed extensively across five continents, working with the orchestra of the RSC and others. The STOMP LFO – for which Dominic arranges and performs – played at the Sydney Opera House, breaking box office records. His adaptability in composing, orchestrating and producing music in a variety of genres with craftmanship and feeling has led him to compose music for BBC and Channel 4 TV and to work on around 25 film soundtracks including the James Bond movie Die Another Day. He conducted the award-winning score for Wild Ocean 3D and appears on screen in the Kevin Costner movie The Upside of Anger. Dominic has also composed and arranged for Silva Screen Records, The Viral Factory and for the acclaimed Concert for George (Harrison) at the Royal Albert Hall.
Dominic is a visiting lecturer at Chichester University and the Royal Academy of Music, Junior Academy. His adjudicating work has taken him to various UK festivals and also to Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland.