Adjudicator Spotlight: Christopher Field MA, ARAM, LRAM, ARCM
Christopher has enjoyed a widely varied musical career. As a schoolboy, he sang at the coronation service of HM Queen in Westminster Abbey and played double bass in the London Schools Symphony Orchestra.
While a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, he conducted the College Madrigal Group and played in the University Orchestra. He continued his studies as a scholar at the Royal Academy of Music and in Switzerland with Frederick Husler on an Arts Council of Great Britain postgraduate award.
His subsequent career as a schoolmaster at Dulwich College was combined with extensive work as a concert baritone, choral conductor, composer and teacher of singing and double bass.
For over forty years, various of his teaching works have appeared in the singing and double bass graded examination syllabuses of ABRSM, LCM, TCM and GSMD; he has been published by Banks, Boosey and Hawkes, Recital Music, Weinberger and Yorke Edition. A Garland of Song, a collection of ten songs for the developing voice, was published by Recital Music in 2016.
An experienced adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals, and ABRSM diploma examiner, he conducts the City of London Chamber Choir and continues to teach singing and double bass. He has joined forces with the Plaegan Piano Quartet in performances of Schubert's Trout Quintet.