John Thwaites Mus.B.(Hons), GRNCM, PPRNCM, Dip.GSMD

John was educated in St Albans, where he sang as a treble chorister in the Cathedral Choir. He went on to study on a joint course in the North of England, graduating with a Batchelor of Music Degree from Manchester University and a Professional Performer’s Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music. John then took a postgraduate Advanced Solo Studies Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from where he obtained a Concert Recital Diploma (Premier Prix). His teaching career began as a piano tutor and led to his appointment as Head of Piano and Assistant Music Master at Christ’s Hospital Horsham, where he conducted the choirs and orchestras over a ten year period. He joined the RSAMD in 1999 as a Lecturer in Piano and he combines his work at the Academy with the post of Course Director of the Cadenza International Summer Music School. John also conducts the Greenock Philharmonic Choir.