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MARC ROCHESTER

The death of Marc Rochester was reported in May 2022

Marc Rochester began his musical life in his native London as a chorister, read music at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and his many music-related occupations have included working as an operatic répétiteur, orchestral horn player, organist (he was Organist and Master of the Choristers at Derry Cathedral in Ireland, and Resident Organist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and Petronas Philharmonic Hall in Kuala Lumpur), ethnomusicological researcher (studying the musical traditions of Wales and the different tribal cultures of Borneo), music examiner and adjudicator, peripatetic music teacher in rural Wales, and university lecturer in Ulster, Malaysia, St Andrews and Middlesex. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music History and Criticism at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music at the National University of Singapore.

Advised as an undergraduate that his academic wiring was too journalistic, Marc responded by turning to music criticism. He began with the Western Mail in Cardiff, eventually becoming senior arts’ correspondent, moved to The Independent in London, for whom he was a regular critic for several years, and is currently Music Critic with the Straits Times in Singapore. He also wrote reviews of new music, recordings and live performances for Organists’ Review and Musical Times, and in 1982 joined the reviewing panel for Gramophone. He was also, before its sad demise, a regular contributor to International Record Review. He has been writing for MusicWeb International since 2016.

Outside a life which seems to be filled with music and writing, Marc has one other consuming interest; driving buses and coaches. He financed his postgraduate work by driving for a local coach company, and went on to drive buses in Cardiff, Basingstoke, London and north Wales, spent several years driving trans-continental coaches (which included every major European city and resort as well as journeys into North Africa and West Asia), and still today returns frequently to his house in rural Scotland from his lecturing duties in Singapore, to drive for the local bus and coach company.

 



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