ACADEMY OF MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 9

ACADEMY OF MUSIC

EXAMINER APPOINTED OR. R. O. BEACHCROFT’S CAREER The practical examinations of the ifflMociated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College ■jf Music. London, will be conducted Dr. K. O. Beachcroft, M.A. Or. Beachcroft, son of Judge F. P. gte roft ol the Bengal Civil Service, wai born in the Punjab, India, f n(l was educated at Rugby and at Worcester College, Oxford. Re received his musical education as an exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music, studying under Sir Walter Parratt’ Sir Charles Villlers Stanford. Mr. Franklin Taylor and /sir Frederick Bridge; and as organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, under Sir Henry Hadow. where he graduated mus, doc. (for s time Dr. Beachcroft considered composition a possible career and was encouraged in this by Sir Charles Stanford and Sir A. Sullivan, but later lie concentrated on the educational side of music. He held for many years, until his retirement in J 926. the appointment of director ot music at Clifton College, also at Clifton and Red land High Schools, and was connected with the Bristol U'nivertflty. Dr. Beachcroft has a wide experience as conductor, performer, lecturer and adjudicator, also in giving orchestral concerts, producing choral works and in mass-singing. He is now mainly occupied with examination work for the Associated Board of the Koval Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, both at Home and abroad. The examinations will commence about the middle of July, and entries will close on July 1.