Jonathan Freeman-Attwood

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, CBE is the 14th principal[1] of the Royal Academy of Music in London;[2][3] he was appointed in 2008. Alongside his commitment to education, he is a writer, record producer, broadcaster and musician.[4]

In 2001, he was conferred as professor with a personal chair from the University of London, and in 2009 was appointed a Fellow of King's College London, (where he is a visiting professor); he was a trustee of the University of London from 2010 to 2015, appointed fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music[5] in 2013, and in 2017 was made a fellow of the Royal College of Music. He is a trustee and chair of the artistic advisory committee of Garsington Opera,[6] a trustee of the Young Classical Artists' Trust (YCAT), the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM[7]) and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.[8] He is a council member of the advisory board of the Academy of Ancient Music,[9] vice-president of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain, Founding Patron of London Youth Choirs, a trustee of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford Music and the British Library Saga Trust.[10] He is also the patron of the Imogen Cooper Music Trust.[11] In 2018 he was granted the title of honorary visiting professor of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai).[12]

He was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on 30 December 2017 for Services to Music.[13]

  1. ^ His predecessors were William Crotch, Cipriani Potter, Charles Lucas, Sir William Sterndale Bennett, Sir George Macfarren, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Sir John McEwen, Sir Stanley Marchant, Sir Reginald Thatcher, Sir Thomas Armstrong, Sir Anthony Lewis, Sir David Lumsden, Lynn Harrell, Sir Curtis Price
  2. ^ "Royal Academy of Music". Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Jonathan Freeman-Attwood CBE | Royal Academy of Music".
  4. ^ Greenfield, Edward; March, Ivan; Layton, Robert (1 January 1996). The Penguin guide to compact discs yearbook, 1995. Penguin Books. p. 487. ISBN 9780140249989. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. ^ "Fellows and Honorary Members". Royal Northern College of Music.
  6. ^ "Garsington Opera". Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  7. ^ "ABRSM". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Countess of Munster Musical Trust: Trustees". Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  9. ^ "Staff & Trustees - Academy of Ancient Music".
  10. ^ "THE SAGA TRUST - 803266".
  11. ^ "THE IMOGEN COOPER MUSIC TRUST - 1162347".
  12. ^ "Tokyo University of the Arts | The title of Visiting Professor Emeritus granted to Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music".
  13. ^ "Jonathan FREEMAN-ATTWOOD".

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