Recorders & Woodwind and General Festival
Gareth Green MA (Oxon), MA, FRCO(CHM), FLCM, ARCM
Gareth Green is making his third visit to our Festival having previously adjudicated in 1998 and at our Centenary Festival in 2006.
Gareth Green achieved his first musical diplomas at the age of fifteen. By the age of 18, 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 free-lance interests as an organ recitalist, adjudicator, Associated Board examiner, and composer/arranger. He has also worked for BBC Religious Broadcasting as a musical director for 'The Daily Service' and as an organist & pianist on 'Songs of Praise', 'Sunday Half Hour' etc. Gareth has released various recordings, both as a soloist and choral accompanist, and his musical endeavours have taken him as far afield as America, Bermuda and Singapore. Gareth offers consultation lessons at his home in South Yorkshire and also teaches theory of music online.
In May 2005 Gareth visited Morpeth to direct a splendid Choral Day sponsored by the Mid-Northumberland Chorus.
Brass Festival
Adjudicator to be announced.