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Richard Deering studied at Trinity College of Music with Frank Merrick (piano) - and subsequently with Peter Wallfisch and Clifford Curzon - and trumpet/cornet with Norman Burgess. He has given piano recitals and broadcasts in over 90 countries worldwide, and has also made several commercial recordings. Many leading composers have written works especially for him, and in 1981 he was elected a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society for "distinguished services to British music".
As an accompanist he has worked with Julian Lloyd Webber, Nigel Kennedy, Robery Tear, Brian Rayner Cook, James Blades and Martine McCutcheon. Currently, he is the director of the unique performing and recording group of 4 pianists known as Piano40.
His interest in contemporary music - especially by British composers - has led to many commissioned magazine articles and a series of albums of new music for young musicians published by Bosworths/Music Sales. He is also involved with the setting, and examining, of the higher levels of the TCL piano syllabus and examines for Rockschool.
His adjudicating - which includes serving on the juries of several prestigious international and national competitions - and examining work has taken him all over the world. Until 2002 he was the Vice-Chairman of the British and International Federation of Festivals' Adjudicator's Council as well as being a Federation Trustee.
As a teacher Richard has held positions at the London College of Music and Middlesex University as well as visiting positions at Trinity College of Music, Trinity College Dublin, Hong Kong's Academy of Performing Arts and the State University of New York.
Malcolm Green was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, where he gained a First Class degree and the prize for the best student on the course, together with the award of the Recital Diploma on clarinet, the Academy's highest performance award. He has played in the English National Opera and Ulster Orchestras and given recitals in the Purcell Room and at the Harrogate Festival, in addition to performing at many music clubs. He was apppointed Head of Woodwind at Bedford School in 1986 and has also taught at the Royal Academy or Music and Anglia University.
Malcolm is a former Chairman of the Bedfordshire Orchestral Society and is currently the Vice-Chairman and woodwind advisor to the Bedfordshire Music Festival. He is frequently in demand as an adjudicator and has recently obtained the new PGC (Adjudication) qualification. His hobbies are walking, in which he has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and been to Everest Base Camp, and cycling, in which he won the Mersey Roads 24 hour event, covering 460 miles.
A musician whose career comprises the roles of concertmaster, concerto soloist, chamber musician and recital soloist, Paul Barritt is Permanent Guest Leader of the Hallé Orchestra, having previously held the posts of leader of the English Chamber Orchestra and the Northern Sinfonia.
As a concerto soloist, Paul has regularly appeared with the ECO and the Northern Sinfonia. In 1998 he was soloist and director of a tour to Sri Lanka, which included a concert in the presence of Prince of Wales, to mark the 50th anniversary of Sri Lanka's Independence. He also directed Isaac Stern's 75th Birthday Concert at the Barbican and played Arvo Pärt's 'Fratres' at the same hall in the presence of the composer. In 2001 he played the Bach Double Violin Concerto with Maxim Vengerov at the London Proms, and in Germany, Spain and Switzerland with the English Chamber Orchestra. Paul directed the ECO on a major tour of England, Switzerland and Japan with the pianist Radu Lupu in October 2001.
In 1999 he formed a violin piano duo with pianist James Lisney. The Duo's 4-disc set of all of Beethoven's music for violin and piano has received superlative reviews and was Classic FM Magazine's Instrumental Disc of the Month in March 2007. Paul's discography includes CD's of the violin works of Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Stanford, Theinberger, Albert Sammons, 'The English Kreisler', Rozsa and Schoeck.
As an adjudicator, Paul has sat on juries at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Tunbridge Wells International Competition and at the Royal Academy of Music.
Ann Lampard was born and educated in the North East of England, studying singing with Betty Middleton. At 21 years old she won many National Festival Awards, including five awards from the Teesside International Eisteddfod, Blackpool Festival Rose Bowl, and Oxford Festival Professional Recital Award, before moving to London to study with Marjorie Thomas. She joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera after winning the Dame Maggie Teyte International Operatic Prize, and went on to sing many roles including The Countess in Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel and the named roles in Handel's Orlando and Alessandro. She was one of the 6 soloists to win a place in the Summer Voice Masterclasses with the late Geoffrey Parsons, at the Purcell Room, and was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Award.
She toured the Far East giving recitals and Masterclasses before she decided to concentrate on teaching. She has been Head of Voice at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, London for 18 years, retiring in July 2005, to spend more time adjudicating and less time travelling. Presently she divides her time between her home on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, commuting from Inverness Airport to Sussex to masterclass and adjudicate. She is also voice advisor to the Benedictine Order, regularly giving masterclasses and lessons to enclosed sisters in Abbeys all over the British Isles.
She was awarded her Hon. ARAM from the Royal Academy of Music in March 2004.
Gary Howarth received much of his musical training in the local area, attending Wallingford School, Abingdon Music School and playing trumpet in Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra and Henley Symphony Orchestra. After initially studying and working in the field of chemistry, he returned to university to read music at Jesus College, Oxford. Since then he has devoted much of his time to school, college and university teaching in the area, as well as adjudicating, examining and performing, both in the UK and abroad.