Adjudicators 2012

JENNIFER HALEY

ARAD(Life Member),FNATD,PGCA(Dance),Reg,ISTDA & LAMDA

Member Adjudicator British Federation of Festivals

Panel Adjudicator for the All England Dance

Jennifer trained in London from the age of five, with Tory Morgan,Maude Wells & Letty Littlewood; three inspiring teachers. She competed in many dance festivals in London & the South East and as a teacher entered pupils in local festivals. She has been Federation and All England Adjudicator for twenty-four years.

 She worked for over twenty years in the professional theatre first as a dancer, then singer, actress, director and latterly as a producer. With her husband, musician Phillip Charles, they presented troupes of girls called ‘The Jenny Set’, many of whom have gone on to work in the theatre. Phillip & Jennifer, as Shows, Tours & Plays in London and all over the country. She also worked in Variety with her own act. She also had her own stage school for twenty years up to 2004, teaching all genres of dance, singing & drama

She was awarded the PGCA Dance Adjudicator’s degree in 2000, and is a life member of the RAD. Her two sons, Noël & Léon are both professional Musicians and Performers.

Jennifer has adjudicated all over the UK & Northern Ireland, Gibraltar & Sri Lanka.

 

 

JILL BALDOCK LIDTA, ARAD

Jill is an All England adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals. She trained at The Hylton Bromley School in Merseyside, where she gained several scholarships from the International Dance Teachers Association. Jill entered the All England Sunshine Festivals and gained seven gold medals in the finals. Jill qualified as a teacher with the I.D.T.A. and the R.A.D. She then went on to run her own school. She received a scholarship to attend ‘The Place’, London’s Contemporary School of Dance, and taught contemporary dance for both Derby and Surrey Arts Councils. She has also taught for The Italia Conti School. Her professional dancing career took her from the West End Theatre to Cabaret, from T.V. to Film work, eventually choreographing and directing theatre shows.

 

Jill diverted her career into the music business, producing for E.M.I. Records and recorded artists such as Shirley Bassey, Bonnie Langford, Marti Webb, Ruthie Henshall etc. She also ran her own music publishing company.
Jill has returned to her love of teaching and has recently been dance lecturer in St.Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Estonia. In 2009 Jill spent a month adjudicating in Sri Lanka and a further month teaching workshops in the Caribbean. She is also involved in the progression of movement for people with learning difficulties and the elderly, working with a charity called R.O.Y.A.D.

 

‘My entire family have been firm followers of Festivals, my brother Chris (who recently choreographed The Royal Variety Show), my sister Wendy (a West End performer) and my niece Lucy (a Miss Dance winner) they are all familiar names within the Festive Fraternity – I am so looking forward to adjudicating at the Sussex Festival of Dance & Song.’

 

 

                                                                         PIPPA LONGWORTH  MEZZO SOPRANO

A graduate of Trinity College and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Pippa won many prizes including the The Ricordi Prize, and studied with performers such as Peter Pears, Renata Scotto, Thomas Hampson and Birgit Nillson. She went on to sing throughout Europe in concert & opera. Roles included Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera,Tatyana in EugeneOnegin, Donna Elvira in DonGiovanni and Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro.

She has performed with conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Roger Norrington,
Jirí Belohlávek, David Robertson, Elgar Howarth & Jan Latham Koenig; in Festivals such as Edinburgh (Brunnhilde’s Immolation Scene), Aldeburgh, Covent Garden, Maggio Musicale, Florence, Frankfurt,
the BBC Proms; at The Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Theatre de Complicite, Musiktheater Transparant and has worked with Opera North, Teatro Real, Madrid and Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

Television appearances include Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte directed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Bach Cantatas for RAI TV and the world premiere of Torke’s King of Hearts. Recordings include Birtwistle’s Mask of Orpheus with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davis and Stravinsky’s
Rossignol with Robert Craft and the Philharmonia. Now singing roles such as Federica (Luisa Miller), the
Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Florence Pike (Albert Herring), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Dido (Dido
and Aeneas), she has sung for Lyric Opera, Dublin, Venetian Opera, the Hallé Orchestra, Kent Opera, Savoy Opera, Opera Holland Park, Verdrenburg,Utrecht, (Tramonto and Sculthorpe with the Brodsky Quartet), the Nationale Theatre, Brno, Fioranko Hall in Krakow and recitals in Moscow, in London’s King’s Place (with the Tippett Quartet) and at the Southbank.

Asco-director and performer of ‘Operaplayhouse’, she has performed throughout the UK, the Caribbean, Spain, Africa and been the subject of a recent BBC Documentary in addition to performing for SkyArts in the Hay-on-Wye, Bath, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals.

She was the first Western singer to be asked to coach opera singers at the Akademie in Prague, has recently given classes in Moscow and regularly gives masterclasses for Festivals such as Dartington International Summer School.

Pippa recently made her Paris Opera debut singing Ludmila in a new production of Smetana’s Bartered
Bride conducted by Jirí Belohlávek. This season she will be performing Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder, Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Schubert Lieder with the Schubert Ensemble at Snape Maltings.

 

 

MARY HAMMOND,
FRAM, LRAM

Head of Musical Theatre, teaching
Integration of Acting and Singing

‘The founder of the renowned post-graduate Musical Theatre course at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and an experienced teacher and singer herself as well as a vocal coach and consultant to numerous companies and groups, Hammond knows the field inside out’ www.whatsonstage.com

Following her training at the Royal Academy of Music in both singing and piano, Mary Hammond spent 25 years as a singer with an almost unique range of styles, from opera at Covent Garden to stadium gigs with groups including Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Roxy Music. She also worked extensively for TV and radio recordings (film scores, TV series, live broadcasts, BBC Big Band, Top of the Pops, jingles etc).

Mary has worked on 28 shows as vocal consultant, among them this year areThriller,London Road, La Cage aux Folles, Billy Elliot and The Phantomof the Opera.

She has a continuing interest in pop and rock music and during the past year has worked with Coldplay, Klaxons, Arcade Fire, The Saturdays, and The Overtones, amongst may others.  Television companies and record producers frequently use her as a vocal trouble-shooter and singing consultant.  This variety of work has led to an understanding of constantly shifting musical needs and a lifelong interest in the research and practice of voice science and its relevance to vocal technique.

TV includes Good Morning, Channel 2 Tone deafness .Story of Kimberly –girls aloud. South bank show Katherine Jenkins. Story of Matt Monro H side Story etc etc

Mary is an active member of the British Voice Association and has organized and help run several voice
conferences .She is also the board of the Actors Centre.

Mary has just finished beingpart of the programme selection panel for the BBC programme “The Voice”

 

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