About the adjudicators

Belinda Mikhaïl

was awarded the Associated Board and the Queen Mother Scholarships to study piano and singing as a joint first study at the Royal College of Music where she was awarded the Hopkinson Gold medal. She has travelled extensively performing both as a soloist and as a chamber musician and has appeared as a concerto soloist at the major London concert halls. She is a vocal soloist on EMI’s Vocalise album and has featured in many film soundtracks. Her solo piano playing of the theme from Chariots of Fire was heard at every medal ceremony at the London Olympic Games.
She is in demand as a vocal coach, training performers in many diverse roles. Her students are enjoying major roles in theatre companies throughout the country as well as in West End productions and in major TV series.
Her work as an adjudicator for the British and international Federation of Festivals has seen her travel both nationally and internationally and enables her to enjoy listening to a wide variety of music and meeting a wealth of musicians through the festival movement.

Gill Johnston

studied the bassoon with Archie Camden at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and, after a spell of freelance playing, concentrated on a teaching career before establishing her own Music School, “Harpenden Musicale.”
Gill also arranges musical holidays, competitions and a summer music festival. She is the founder and Musical Director of the National Children’s Wind Orchestra and associated groups. She is an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals and very much enjoys contact with young musicians and strives to enthuse them and inspire their interest in Music.

Cally Foster

has been committed to the Festival movement since her first appearance in a festival at the age of five. She has pursued a career as a speech and drama specialist and was the Principal of her Buckinghamshire based drama studio for over 20 years.
She has travelled extensively in the UK, Europe and internationally as an adjudicator and as an examiner for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Cally also delivers workshops on communication and performance and is a former Chair of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama and an Adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals.
Cally believes that Festival performance both encourages an appreciation of the arts and develops communication and presentation skills. She is delighted to return to Glasgow Music Festival and wishes all participants an enjoyable and positive experience.

Les Lambert

has been teaching Scottish country dancing for 30 years both in his own Glasgow branch and in local affiliated classes and groups. He has established a programme of teaching within Glasgow Primary Education, involving organising a rota of dance teachers working in local Primary schools.
He has been involved in Dance festivals for many years, initially as a performer and subsequently as a tutor. He is an RSCDS Adjudicator and an assessor for St. Andrew’s Summer School.
As a result of teaching for fifteen years in St. Andrew’s, he has been invited to teach throughout the UK, in Italy, France. Germany and the USA.