Judith Serota

Judith Serota O. BE (* 1948 ) is a British musician and event manager.

Judith Serota trained as a clarinetist at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1966 to 1972 and wrote for the student newspaper on the side. She then got involved in the organization of various festivals and events for the Welsh Arts Council and Arnolfini Music . From 1977 to 1986 she was the manager of the Taverner Choir, Consort and Players .

From 1988 to 2007 Serota acted as the organizer of the Spitalfields Festival in London's East End , a music festival that promotes classical and modern music locally. Initially a singular event in summer, the festival grew under her leadership, so that it now offers around 250 workshops around the year and has since been supplemented by a winter festival.

In 2005 and 2006 the festival was honored at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards under her aegis . In 2007 Judith Serota was the first person to receive the newly created BAFA Award for outstanding achievements in the field of British art exhibitions. In 2009 she was honored with the Order of the British Empire . Since 2007 she has been an external advisor to the National Performing Companies for the Scottish Government and has been the Senior Reviewer for Arts Council England . She also sat on the board of directors of the Gabrieli Trust and was a member of the advisory board of the Cheltenham Music Festival London . For many years she was a school councilor in Inner London and was involved in cancer screening .

At Serota's farewell party at the Spitalfields Festival , the piano booklet for Judith (as a reference to Bach's piano booklet for Anna Magdalena Bach ) was honored with seven pieces for amateur pianists, as she had declared that after her resignation from the festival management she would improve her piano playing. In June 2011 the pieces were performed in public for the first time by the pianist Melvyn Tan at the festival. The booklet was published as Variations for Judith in 2012.

Judith Serota is the daughter of former Minister Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota and the sister of the Director of Tate Britain , Nicholas Serota .

Web links

• Judith Serota on nmcrec.co.uk
• Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists on guardian.co.uk, June 8, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former Festival Director gets OBC on spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk v. June 12, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Variations for Judith now online ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk from October 30, 2012