Jonathan Freeman-Attwood

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rdf:langString Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, CBE is the 14th Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London; he was appointed in 2008. Alongside his commitment to education, he is a writer, recording producer, broadcaster and trumpet player. In 2001, he was conferred as professor with a personal chair from the University of London, and in 2009 was appointed a Fellow of King's College London, (where he is a Visiting Professor); he was a Trustee of the University of London from 2010 to 2015, appointed Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in 2013, and in 2017 was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. He is a Trustee and Chair of the Artistic Advisory Committee of Garsington Opera, a Trustee of the Young Classical Artists' Trust (YCAT), the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. He is a Council member of the Advisory Board of the Academy of Ancient Music, Vice-President of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain, Founding Patron of London Youth Choirs, a Trustee of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford Music, the Imogen Cooper Music Trust, and the British Library SAGA Trust. In 2018 he was granted the title of Honorary Visiting Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai). He was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on 30 December 2017 for Services to Music.