adjudicator

the 2025 adjudicator will be Christina Thomson LRAM, ARCM, GRSM, PGCA

Christina Thomson is an adjudicator with many years experience highly sought after at home and abroad. She is a member of the British and International Federation of Festivals. and has onlv just retired as a Music Deputy on the adjudicators council. She has been a long standing international examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), and was also a member of the Diploma Panel. She undertook many solo overseas tours. including Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Vietnam, South Africa, the USA, Italy, Spain and India, where she gave presentations and workshops for teachers.

Christina was a mentor on the ABRSM’s Certificate of Trainina (CT) Professional Development Course from when it was first inaugurated. Christina has taught at Harrow, St Benedict’s College and the Purcell School in London. She also taught at Sedbergh, Ampleforth College, Queen Mary’s School and Cundall Manor, and Ripon Cathedral Choir School, which her parents founded. She had an extensive private practice, developina technical and musical potential and individuality in pupils aged 5 to over 80, from beginners to diploma level. Her students have won scholarships to many major public schools and places at universities and music colleges, as well as learning for pleasure with non-competitive music-making. Christina showed early talent on the horn, winning a coveted place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain before studying horn, piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. A fascinating career followed as a horn player in Passau and Munich, Bavaria, Germany. playing opera, chamber music, symphonic repertoire and onstage in theatre productions.

She has two adult sons and two grandchildren, all musical, and enjoys walking, travelling and reading among many other interests as an antidote to the musical life she leads.