Trinity Examiner for Cape Town (Southern Suburbs)
October Practical Exam Session

Paul Searle-Barnes recently left Bryanston School, where for many years he was Head of Keyboard and then Director of Music, to return to the life of a full-time freelance pianist, performing in the South of England and abroad.

He studied Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge and then the piano with Kendall Taylor at the Royal College of Music in London. Since winning the Dudley International Piano Competition and a Maisie Lewis young Artist's Award, which sponsored his debut in the Purcell Room, he has performed as soloist throughout Great Britain, in France, Spain, Poland, Finland and Canada, playing on television and radio in this country, Poland and Canada. He has performed as soloist with both the Bournemouth Symphony and Sinfonietta Orchestras, the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican.

He has accompanied various artists, both vocal and instrumental, in the Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall, on Radio 3 and Classic FM and in recitals throughout the UK. He has also accompanied auditions for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra. He has performed regularly as orchestral pianist with the BSO, has appeared as such on a televised Promenade concert (Carmina Burana), broadcasts both live and recorded (including Petruchka) and recordings (eg Bernstein’s Fancy Free). He has also been performing with Kokoro, the contemporary music ensemble of the BSO and has performed chamber music with many and varied groups of musicians.

He has recorded and performed film music with Debbie Wiseman and Carl Davis, with whom he recorded a number of the Thames Silent Films. On the lighter side of music, he has played for many years in the Palm Court Theatre Orchestra and has appeared on all of the orchestra’s recordings. He has also conducted various choirs, choruses and orchestras in performances which have included Musicals and operas.

Trinity Examiner for Cape Town (Northern Suburbs)
October Practical Exam Session

Alan Jeremy studied piano and violin at the Royal Academy of Music, London, before training to be a teacher at the University of London Institute of Education. After teaching at a large Birmingham comprehensive school, he was appointed Research Associate in Music Education at the University of Birmingham where he worked on projects to develop musical literacy in children.

Upon completing the three year appointment, Alan Jeremy became a Lecturer in Music at Hereford College of Education. Later, he was appointed Head of the Music Department at Hereford Sixth Form College.

In Hereford, Alan Jeremy has been an accompanist for the Police Male Voice Choir, the Honorary Librarian to the Choral Society, and a member of the committee, and a chorus member for, the Three Choirs Festival held tri-annually at Hereford Cathedral.

Since joining the Trinity guildhall panel of music examiners in May 1994, Alan Jeremy has travelled more than 250,000 miles, to five continents, and eighteen countries, visiting some 200 centers. He has assessed over 15,000 candidates at each of the levels of the college's examinations in all instrumental and singing categories. Thus his view of music education has been enlarged and enriched with the capacity to make first-hand international comparisons.