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Judges

CMF ARTIST PROGRAMME

2020

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Iain Burnside, Pianist

Julius Drake, Pianist

Leslie East OBE, Chairman ABCD & Former Chief Executive ABRSM

Paul Edlin, Composer, Director of Music QMUL & Artistic Director Deal Festival

James Gilchrist, Tenor

Simon Haram, Saxophonist, Principal Saxophone at the London Sinfonietta 

Mats Lidstrom, Cellist & Composer

Tasmin Little, Violinist

Joan Rodgers, Soprano

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

Jeremy Summerly, Conductor

Howard Williams, Conductor

2019

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Eugene Asti, Pianist

Levon Chilingirian, Founder & Violinist, Chilingirian Quartet

Robert Cohen, Cellist

Peter Donohoe, Pianist

Leslie East, Chairman ABCD & former CEO, ABRSM

Jonathan Groves, Founder & Managing Director, Groves Artists

Richard Heason, Director, St John’s Smith Square

Andrew Marriner, Clarinetist (Principal of LSO 1986-2019)

Ivo Neame, Jazz Pianist

Celia Nicklin, oboist (Former Principal of ASMF)

Joan Rodgers, Soprano

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

2018

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Eugene Asti, Pianist

Michael Collins, Clarinetist & Conductor

Gary Crosby, Tomorrow’s Warriors

Leslie East, Chairman ABCD & former CEO, ABRSM

Huw Humphreys, Head of Music, Barbican Centre

Paul Keene, Classical Music Programmer, Barbican Centre

Mats Lidström, Cellist & Composer

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

Roger Vignoles, Pianist

Howard Williams, Conductor

2017

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Ben Pateman, Music Consultant & Flautist

Sandy Burnett, Bassist, Journalist, & Broadcaster

Hilary Davan Wetton, Conductor

Leslie East, Chairman ABCD & former CEO, ABRSM

Paul Keene, Classical Music Programmer, Barbican Centre

Sholto Kynoch, Pianist & Artistic Director, Oxford Lieder Festival

Joan Rodgers, Soprano

Richard Thomas, Trumpeter

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

Andrew Watkinson, Violinist, Endellion String Quartet

Andrew West, Pianist

Louise Williams, Violist

2016

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Jonathan Bloxham, Conductor & Cellist

Sandy Burnett, Bassist, Journalist, & Broadcaster

Iain Burnside, Pianist, Curator, & Broadcaster

Robert Cohen, Cellist

Leslie East, Chairman ABCD & former CEO, ABRSM

Sian Edwards, Conductor

Paul Keene, Classical Music Programmer, Barbican Centre

Mats Lidström, Cellist & Composer

Joan Rodgers, Soprano

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

Daniel Tong, Pianist

2015

Ian Ritchie (chairman), Festival Curator & Artistic Director

Margaret Archibald, Clarinettist

Ben Baker, Violinist

William Bennett, Flautist

Jonathan Bloxham, Conductor & Cellist

Sandy Burnett, Bassist, Journalist, & Broadcaster

Leslie East, Chairman ABCD & former CEO, ABRSM

Paul Keene, Classical Music Programmer, Barbican Centre

Mats Lidstrom, Cellist & Composer

Noriko Ogawa, Pianist

Sebastian Scotney, Editor, London Jazz News

Howard Williams, Conductor

Other previous judges have included…

Alistair Anderson, Folk Musician

Alison Balsom, Trumpeter

Ian Brown, Pianist, Nash Ensemble

Paul Cassidy, Violist, Brodsky Quartet

Jacqui Dankworth, Jazz singer

John Gilhooly, Artistic Director, Wigmore Hall

Jeremy Hayes, Proprietor, Potton Hall

David Jones, Director, SERIOUS

Stephen Lumsden, Managing Director, Intermusica

Sally Matthews, Soprano

Andy Panayi, Jazz musician & Composer

Andrew Parmley, Former Master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians

Jennifer Pike, Violinist

Charlie Wood, Jazz musician & Composer

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