2008 New Zealand Championships - The Adjudicators

Who they are and what they will be adjudicating.

Chief Adjudicator: Simone Rebello

Sections: A and B Grade

Simone graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction and a collection of awards including a major scholarship and The Phillip Jones Prize. She began a solo career which has taken her around the world with concerto appearances, solo recitals, master classes and appearances on national and international TV and radio. She has recorded several CDs and is in high demand as a soloist with brass bands, wind ensembles and symphony orchestras. She continues to win awards such as the 1998 Cosmopolitan/House of Fraser Woman of the Year in the Arts.

Simone regularly performs with the internationally renowned BackBeat Percussion Quartet of which she is a founder member. The group tours extensively in Japan and America and have also given concerts in Zimbabwe, the Cayman Islands and throughout Europe. In addition to recording 2 CDs and numerous international TV and radio broadcasts the group has won several competitions including the Royal Over - Seas League Ensemble Prize (1997), The Osaka International Chamber Music Festa (1999) and The USA Concert Artists Guild (2001) which led to a USA debut at The Weill Hall - Carnegie Hall. The group has commissioned several new works and its 2002 Proms debut was broadcast live on BBC television.

In 1997 Simone formed Equivox with leading saxophonist Rob Buckland and Peter Lawson (pianist), and this contemporary music group record and perform internationally. They have commissioned several new works and their debut album 'The Time is Now' was released to critical acclaim in 2006. Simone collaborates with various musicians on projects and continues to work as a solo recitalist with pianist/organist Julian Wilkins.

Simone devises and presents concerts and workshops to children of all ages and works annually with Young World UK who produce concerts featuring large choirs (up to 8000 children) in UK arenas including the Manchester Evening News Arena, working with musicians including Beverley Knight, Lee Ryan and Heather Small

She is frequently asked to adjudicate at national and international brass and wind band competitions, percussion festivals and events for BBC Radio, and speaks regularly at events concerning performance skills, the development of concerts and workshops for children and general percussion topics.

Simone Rebello is a solo artist and endorsee for Yamaha Music UK, Sabian Cymbals and Mike Balter Mallets.

(From www.simonerebello.com)

Peter Adams

Sections: C & D Grade

Peter Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago.

Academic Qualifications:

M.Mus King's College, University of London    1982
Mus.B Hons, 1st Class University of Otago    1981
F.T.C.L Trinity College of Music, London    1980
L.R.S.M. The Royal Schools of Music, London    1978
L.T.C.L. Trinity College of Music, London    1977

Significant performances:

    * Musical Director of the City of Dunedin Choir (formerly the Schola Cantorum) for ten years 1987 - 1996. Numerous public concerts in the Dunedin Town Hall with the Dunedin Sinfonia orchestra accompanying.
    * Musical Director for four Opera Otago opera productions and five university opera productions.
    * Musical Director of Music department performing groups the Marama Singers (1998 - 2001), the Marama String Orchestra (2002 - present), and the Staff and Student University Choir (2002).
    * Musical Director of St Kilda Brass from 1991 - 1995, and 1999 - present, leading the ensemble to one national championship and two second placements in the elite A grade section of the New Zealand annual brass band championships.
    * As a guest conductor Peter has given many public concerts with the Dunedin Sinfonia (now renamed the Southern Sinfonia), New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Orchestra of Christchurch, Invercargill Sinfonia, South Island Youth Orchestra, Dunedin Youth Orchestra, Kaikorai Brass Band and the Otago/Southland Youth Band.

Recent Creative Work as Composer:

    * When day turns to dusk for Tenor Horn, Vibraphone and Strings completed March 2004 and premiered in Dunedin in August.
    * Triptych; the Garden of Earthly Delights completed February 2002 and premiered in Dunedin and Invercargill in April.
    * Idle Moments duet completed August 2002 and premiered in October.
    * Clarinecho electroacoustic soundscape of 1999 revised and remastered as 8' film soundtrack to short film of Lloyd Godman's artwork shown in Dunedin, October 2002 and to show at the Melbourne flower Show in 2003.
    * The Tides of Time for large choir and orchestra completed December 1999.
    * 2000 to present: many arrangements of music for brass, including four song accompaniments for concerts with Jonathan Lemalu and Anna Leese, three hymn arrangements and three Carols, and two light music numbers.

(excerpt from http://www.otago.ac.nz/music/staff/peteradams.html)