the 2026 adjudicator will be Alasdair Jamieson
Alasdair Jamieson was born in Edinburgh, graduated from St. Andrews University, and trained as a teacher at Cambridge. After many years of secondary school teaching in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and York he moved on to academia: having completed a doctorate on the music of Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn, he became a Teaching Fellow in the music department at Durham University, and Director of Chapel Music at St John’s College, Durham. He has recently written a book on two Northern Irish composers, Havelock Nelson and Joan Trimble, published by Grosvenor Books in 2017. In York he directed the Micklegate Singers between 1996 and 2000, the York Symphony Orchestra until 2017, and he has been conducting York Opera productions since 1996. Last year he conducted York Opera’s performances of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman at York Theatre Royal and he continues to coach and act as repetiteur for this company.
Ripon Young Musicians of the Year Competition 