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Recordings for EMI of Schubert, Brahms, Britten, Mozart, Faur\u00e9 and Barber (collaborating with Ian Bostridge, Thomas Ades and Thomas Kakushka) were awarded both Gramophone Awards and Diapason d\u2019Or. The quartet were twice recipients of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award and were the first BBC New Generation Artists.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his current role as Chief Executive of Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT), he was Head of Chamber Music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the RNCM, professor at Reina Sofia School in Madrid and regularly teaches on the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), Pro Quartet Foundation and at Britten Pears Programme at Snape Maltings. He has given masterclasses at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Glenn Gould School in Canada, New England Conservatory and\u00a0 Stanford University in USA. He is frequently invited as jury member on international competitions such as Banff, Osaka, Melbourne, Wigmore and Vienna\/Haydn Competitions, and Sydney International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Alasdair has also collaborated with artists including Piotr Andrezewski, Christian Zacharias, Kathryn Stott, Imogen Cooper, Aleksander Madzar, Robert Levin, Isabelle van Keulen, Valentin Erben, Borodin Quartet, Heinz Holliger, Michael Collins, Simon Keenlyside, Dame Anne Murray and Christine Sch\u00e4fer.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently a council member for Britten Pears Arts and trustee of the Countess of Munster Trust and Ann Driver Trust, having previously served as a UK governor of Live Music Now. Alasdair is a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded the ABO (Association of British Orchestras) 2016 Artist Manager of the Year. He is a Fellow and Vice Chair of the Fellows Council of the Westminster Abbey Institute in London and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Alasdair also worked for ten years as a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alasdair Tait is an internationally recognised cellist, performer, recording artist, educator, mentor and industry leader, dedicated to inspiring and encouraging the next generations of young classical musicians. 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