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HÂþ»­ alumni and affiliates awarded New Year’s Honours in 2021

Wednesday 6 January 2021

Members of the Royal College of Music community have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, including cellist Natalie Clein and pianists Wayne Marshall and Barry Douglas.

HÂþ»­ cello professor Natalie Clein has been awarded an OBE for services to music, in acknowledgment of her distinguished career comprising musical performance and teaching. After coming to widespread attention for winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of 16, Clein went on to study at the Royal College of Music. During her time as a student, she was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Rosebowl by HÂþ»­ President, HRH The Prince of Wales.

HÂþ»­ keyboard alumni in the 2021 New Year’s Honours List include Wayne Marshall and Barry Douglas. Marshall was a student at Chetham’s School of Music from 1971 to 1979, after which he won a Foundation scholarship to the HÂþ»­. Known as a pianist, organist and conductor, he is also a Fellow of the HÂþ»­ and receives an OBE for services to music. Barry Douglas, an international concert pianist, spent four years studying at the HÂþ»­, and now provides HÂþ»­ pianists with outstanding tuition as Visiting Professor of Piano. He was awarded an OBE in 2002, and, as of 2021, now holds a CBE.

Receiving an MBE from the Queen this year is strings alumnus Bradley Creswick, a long-time leader of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Creswick studied at the HÂþ»­ before moving to Newcastle in 1984 to join the then-titled Northern Sinfonia, becoming well-known for his moving rendition of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending.

Another CBE recipient this year is composition alumnus Professor Julian Anderson, who held the position of Head of Composition at the HÂþ»­ from 1999 to 2004, and has enjoyed much success as a composer of solo, chamber and orchestral works, such as his Piano Concerto The Imaginary Museum.

Also recognised this year is conductor Professor Jane Glover, an HÂþ»­ Fellow, who was made a dame for services to music, and HÂþ»­ Council member Guy Weston, knighted for services to philanthropy and charity.

Read more about the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2021 on the .

Image credits:

Natalie Clein: Neda Navaee

Barry Douglas: Benjamin Ealovega

Wayne Marshall: Charlie Best