Adjudicators

GRAEME HUMPHREY

Graeme Humphrey has been a Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music since 1974, and has been very actively involved in festival adjudicating, examining and teaching; this work has taken him to Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, France, Sabah, Sri Lanka, Japan, Thailand and Ghana.

He was awarded an Associated Board Scholarship on the piano from New Zealand to study at the Royal Academy of Music.    While at the RAM he developed particular interests in chamber music, accompanying and teaching, and has enjoyed a career based on these activities.     He has broadcast many times on BBC Radio 3 (principally in the piano trio repertoire), and has performed at the Bath and Harrogate Festivals, the Purcell Room and Wigmore Halls in London as well as at many music clubs in the United Kingdom.    

He is also very active in the giving of seminars to teachers, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, and maintains a substantial private teaching practice in London with pupils of all ages and stages.    Since 1993 he has tutored at the Hereford International Summer School and was made Music Director of the Summer School in 2004.   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. 

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