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Present Positions Held

2002- Head of Professional Performance Studies & Senior Tutor in Clarinet (new post reflecting promotion, Sept. 2002)
Royal Northern College of Music

2001- Director of Performance Studies & Senior Tutor in Clarinet
Royal Northern College of Music

Key Responsibilities:

· Management and development of Supporting Professional Studies across all five Schools of study. This area constitutes approximately 33% of the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and involves a portfolio of c.75 practical, vocational and specialist activities.

· Professor of Clarinet, teaching 1:1 at all levels

· Planning, co-ordinating and delivering clarinet seminars, workshops and weekly classes

· Advising on the clarinet syllabus

· Coaching chamber music, directing sectional and full rehearsals

· Assessments and auditions within the school of wind and percussion

· Scholarship and research

Additional Present Employment

1988- Freelance Professional Clarinettist
(please refer to Performing Experience below)

1999- External Examiner, Trinity College of Music

1987 Examiner: LCM (diplomas, grades & theoretical)

1997 UK Representative: T.W. Howarth Clarinets
I was invited to fulfil this role from February 1997 as a direct result of my work in performance and recording. T.W. Howarth sponsor much of my professional performance work and I am involved in promotional, educational and instrumental design activities on their behalf.
Visiting Lectures/Masterclasses:

· Florida State University 2001
· Royal Northern College of Music 2000
· Birmingham Conservatoire 1998
· Welsh College of Music and Drama 1998
· Reading University 1997,1999, 2000
· Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 1997
· Colchester Centre of Performing Arts 1997
· Grenadier Guards 1999
· HAC 2001
· Cheethams School of Music 2002

Conference Participation:

· Performance, International ClarinetFest, Stockholm 2002
· Paper on British Clarinet pedagogy, Stockholm 2002
· Concerto performances WASBE, Lucerne 2001
· Electronics premiere, Sonic Arts Network, Belfast 2001
· Mid-West Conference, Chicago 2000
· Performer/Workshops, Clarinetwise Conferences 1998-2001
· Representative for TVU at NAMHE Conferences 1997-
· Lecture/Recital British Clarinet Congress, RCM 1997
· Chairing Forum: Music Provision at HE Level
BASBWE Conference, University of Warwick 1996

Forthcoming Conference Participation:

· Invited artists for ICA Conference, Utah, USA 2003
· Concerto performance at MidWest, Chicago 2003

External Examination Work:

· Trinity College of Music - woodwind department 1999-
· Trinity College of Music - validation panel of Foundation Degree 2001