WANTAGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION - Key Persons

David Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chair, Competitions Secretary and Safeguarding

Eileen Field

Eileen Field studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and has since had extensive experience as a soprano soloist, piano accompanist and choral conductor. Eileen is a grade and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, also moderating examiners and helping to train new examiners. In 2007 she was appointed Consultant Moderator and she is the Lead Consultant in the selection of repertoire for the ABRSM Singing Syllabus. She has examined and presented seminars for teachers in the UK, Southern Africa, the Far East, Bermuda and the USA, and throughout Europe, including Scandinavia, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Turkey and Poland.

Gay Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Finance

Graeme Humphrey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the British
Graeme Humphrey has been a teacher of piano all his professional life, both at the Royal Academy of Music for thirty-six years from 1974 - 2010, and privately. He has also been very actively involved in festival adjudicating and examining - work which has taken him all over the world. He was awarded an Associated Board piano scholarship from New Zealand to study at the Royal Academy of Music. He regularly teaches in Hong Kong and China, and was external examiner at National Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore from 2009 - 2011. In 1988 he founded the Blackheath Music Festival in London. From 1993 - 2010 he tutored at the Shrewsbury International Summer School and was Music Director of the Summer School from 2004 - 2010. In 1997 he was elected Warden of the Private Teachers' Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and in 2002 was elected President of the Royal Academy of Music Club. He has recently been involved in the selecting and editing of a major new piano duet project that is republishing long out-of-print beginner and intermediate level duet material, primarily for the pupil/teacher. This can be seen at www.fourhandsplus.com Graeme Humphrey is an Adjudicator member of the British and Internal Federation of Festivals and in 2013 was made a Fellow of British and International Federation of Festivals.