Adjudicators for Piano Classes 2025
Read about the adjudicators for our piano classes.
Tim Barratt
Susan Clark
Susan Clark attended Trinity College of Music Junior Department, studying piano, flute, violin and musicianship. She continued her studies at Cambridge University. Susan completed a Postgraduate Diploma in performance at the Royal College of Music. She was awarded an ARCM in performance, a CTABRSM and LRSM in teaching and an MA from the Open University in musicology. Her teachers included Rose Eley, Nigel Clayton, John Blakely and Vanessa Latarche. She has appeared at most of the major London concert venues. She has played at the Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Fringe Festivals and music clubs in the south east and at the Martinu Hall in Prague. In 2003 she performed a piano concerto with Trinity Orchestra, Harrow, in 2009 appeared with the Lincolnshire Symphony Orchestra playing Chopin’s 1st piano concerto and recently took the solo piano part in Rio Grande by Lambert. She has taught at Harrow School, Eagle House School, Wellington College and Latymer Saturday Music Centre. Susan currently holds posts as a visiting teacher of piano at Merchant Taylor’s School, the Royal Masonic School and Latymer Upper School and also has a thriving private practice. Susan is an ABRSM examiner and has travelled extensively in South East Asia to examine. Susan is a member of ABRSM’s Professional Development panel, has had 3 articles about teaching techniques published in the Music Teacher magazine. She is an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals and regularly adjudicates at music festivals throughout the UK. In her spare time she is attempting to learn the harp and enjoys playing with her two Ragdoll cats.
Danny Driver
Eileen Field
Julian Jacobson
Julian Jacobson is one of Britain’s most creative and distinctive pianists. He has been a vital and original presence in the British musical world and worldwide since the 1970’s. In his early years he was a highly sought-after duo and ensemble partner but following his appointment as Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama he concentrated more on solo work, becoming particularly admired for his performances of the complete Beethoven sonatas. To date he has given 11 complete cycles, 5 of these being performances of all 32 sonatas from memory in a single day. He is Chairman of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and gives masterclasses internationally. His CDs cover a wide repertoire from Mozart to Michael Nyman and include his own music and transcriptions. He has given UK and world premieres of works by Ligeti, Xenakis, Takemitsu, Schnittke and many others. Julian has performed with many of the British orchestras with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Tamás Vásáry and Jane Glover. He has composed and conducted the music for 5 films as well as several instrumental pieces. His recent virtuoso transcriptions for piano duet of Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody and “An American in Paris” have won substantial acclaim. Julian is a professor at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a Guest Professor at Xiamen University China, and was for 20 years a diploma examiner for ABRSM. He has adjudicated often in Hong Kong and the UK. He also enjoys playing and singing jazz and has given four performances as reciter of Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot Lunaire’. ww.julianjacobson.com
David Pollard (accompanists’ prize)
Frank Wibaut
Frank Wibaut.