RNCM Announces its 2013 Fellows and
Honorary Members
Liz Rowley
PR and Media Relations Officer
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is pleased to announce its 2013
Fellows and Honorary Members.
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This year, following the College’s 40th anniversary celebrations, three distinguished
musicians and educators have been chosen as Fellows of the RNCM (FRNCM),
and two of the College’s loyal advocates and supporters as Honorary Members
(HonRNCM).
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Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music,
and Dr Paul Goodey, Director of Performance at the RNCM, will both be awarded
Fellowships during the College’s annual Congregation of Awards, held on Tuesday
3 December, while Hungarian pianist András Schiff will be granted the same award
during his concert at the RNCM on 19 November. Dr Ursula Jones, co-founder of
the English Chamber Orchestra, and Dr Joyce Kennedy, author of several books
about opera, will become Honorary Members during the December ceremony.
Since 1974, the RNCM has awarded numerous Fellowships and Honorary
Memberships to world-renowned musicians, conductors, composers, educators, and
advocates, including Placido Domingo, Sir John Dankworth, Dame Joan Sutherland,
Dame Janet Baker, Sir Mark Elder, Hans Werner Henze and Sir Bernard Lovell.
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Rowley, PR and Media Relations Officer, at liz.rowley@rncm.ac.uk or 0161 907
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Notes to Editors:
Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood is a performer, writer, educator, recording
producer and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music, London. He studied at the
University of Toronto and Christ Church, Oxford. Soon after, he became Dean of
Undergraduate Studies at the Academy, where he led a pioneering new degree
course in performance studies under the aegis of King’s College London. He then
Cont…
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became Vice-Principal and Director of Studies, a post he held until 2008. In 1997,
he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and in 2001
received a personal chair in his conferment as a Professor of the University of
London.
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Dr Paul Goodey is Director of Performance at the RNCM, where he previously held
the role of Head of the School of Wind, Brass and Percussion. An oboist, Paul
studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of California, and has
appeared as a soloist in the UK, Europe and North America. With the contemporary
chamber ensemble Sounds Positive he has given over 60 premières at venues
including the Royal Opera House, St John's Smith Square and the Colourscape
Festival with composers such as Stephen Montague, Simon Bainbridge and Judith
Weir. Paul is also an active composer. Current projects include a series of
contemporary oboe etudes, a piece for Sounds Positive, and a Concerto for bass
flute, doubling alto flute, C flute and piccolo for Karin de Fleyt, flautist with the
Stockhausen Estate.
András Schiff is a world-renowned and critically acclaimed pianist, conductor,
pedagogue and lecturer. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1953, he started piano
lessons at the age of five with Elisabeth Vadász and continued his studies at the
Ferenc Liszt Academy with Professor Pál Kadosa, György Kurtág and Ferenc
Rados, and in London with George Malcolm.
Recognised for touring the globe with large-scale and concentrated studies of the
major keyboard works, András Schiff’s special recitals of J S Bach, Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann and Bartók form an important part of
every concert season. In 2004 he embarked on an astonishing journey of the 32
Beethoven piano sonatas and to date has performed the complete cycle in 20 cities.
The Beethoven cycle was recorded live for ECM in the Zurich Tonhalle and released
in eight volumes.
Dr Ursula Jones OBE co-founded the English Chamber Orchestra in 1960, then in
its ascendancy with big involvement at Aldeburgh, with Britten and young emerging
talents such as Colin Davis, Barenboim, Perlman, and Zukerman. She is a member
of the Board of Trustees of the Lucerne Festival, and is a distinguished translator
and archeologist, specialising in the pre-history of Mexico. In 2010 she was awarded
the OBE for services to music.
Ursula’s relationship with the RNCM goes back many years. Her husband Philip
was the College’s first Head of the School of Wind, Brass and Percussion, and
following his death in 2000, bequeathed his Philip Jones Brass Ensemble library to
the College. As well as taking a lively interest in this library, Ursula has supported
and attended the PJBE chamber music competition every year since then, and has
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arranged several chamber ensembles to tour Switzerland. And, just as she helped
launch the conducting career of Daniel Barenboim, has given a committed start to
RNCM groups Bones Apart and the Tempest Flute Trio.
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Dr Joyce Kennedy was born in Hull and has lived in Manchester since 1952, when
she entered the Medical School of Manchester University. From 1958 until her
retirement in 1990 she practiced as an anesthetist and general practitioner.
In 1999 she married music critic Michael Kennedy in the RNCM Concert Hall, and
has been his researcher, typist and, on the Oxford Dictionary of Music, his coeditor. In 2001 they set up the Joyce and Michael Kennedy Award for the Singing of
Strauss so that student singers at the RNCM would be tempted to explore the songs
he composed and take some of them into their repertory. In addition to providing the
prize money for this award, she has made a range of other gifts to the College over
the years and has been a Friend since 2000.
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Joyce has had a lifelong interest in music and a passion for opera in particular. Her
book Who’s Who in Opera was published by OUP in 1998 and analyses 2,500 roles
from 280 operas. Opera: the great composers and their masterworks was published
by Mitchell Beazley in 2008, and A Dictionary of Opera Characters in 2010.
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