Richard Frostick - Artistic Director

We are proud to have Richard Frostick as the Artistic Director for Youth Music Voices.

Richard studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and at London University.  He has a broad and extensive experience of music education, having taught pupils and students of all ages, from children under 5 to students at post-16 and postgraduate level. 

Richard has gained an international reputation as an animateur and has worked on large-scale projects in Portugal, Croatia, and Belgium with major orchestras.  In the UK he has worked regularly with the BBC Symphony, Philharmonic and Concert orchestras and with musicians from the Philharmonia, Halle, OAE and London Sinfonietta. 

Richard co-devised and presented the first BBC Symphony Orchestra's Proms 'Out and About' concert at the Brixton Academy, working with composer John Adams, and has worked twice with jazz legend Hugh Masekela on projects with youth choirs.  He has prepared young choirs for five BBC Proms and recently trained a massed family choir for a Proms Folk Day performance. 

In November 2009 Richard prepared and conducted a choir of young people from the UK, Portugal and Croatia for the British Council's 75th Anniversary celebrations at the Barbican. 

As founder and director of the Islington Music Centre, an independent charitable provision for 400 young people aged 6-18, Richard has prepared choirs for numerous performances on radio and TV.  The Centre was featured in the Channel 4 documentary 'Don't Stop The Music' as an example of national excellence.