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Honorary Fellow, 1996
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Anthony Rowland-Jones, having been the first Registrar of the University of Essex, and then a consultant in university administration and development in overseas countries, was the former Vice Principal of the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT) and one of the world's foremost writers on the recorder, its technique, music and iconography. He served as Vice Principal of CCAT from 1973 to 1984, playing a pivotal role in the development and range of the first degree programmes offered by the College, and in improving Library and student services. He also served as Chair of CCAT's non-profit-making Housing Association, CAMCAT.

After his retirement in 1984 he was able to devote his time more fully to his other main interests, the music, history and symbolism of the recorder, including teaching in both universities in Cambridge. He has published six books on the subject, including Recorder Technique: Intermediate to Advanced (1959, 3rd edn 2003), Playing Recorder Sonatas: Interpretation and Technique (1992) and, with John Mansfield Thomson, The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder (1995).

In 1996 Anthony Rowland-Jones was made an Honorary Fellow of the University. In 2007 he was awarded the American Recorder Society's Presidential Award of Honour, at the Boston Early Music Festival and in 2008 he was elected an Honorary Vice President of the UK Society or Recorder Players.

Areas Of Interest: Education, music
Faculty: No particular faculty affiliation
Citation:

"Part of the debt owed by our University to Anthony Rowland-Jones is due to the fact that from 1973 to 1984 he was Vice Principal to one of our parental institutions, the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT). He played a leading role in steering a number of embryonic degree programmes through the meticulous process of validation, which at that time was conferred by the Council for National Academic Awards. The rationally argued documentation, whose drafting Anthony often personally supervised, enabled many a fledgling proposal to survive the testing fires of CNAA scrutiny. Current courses, however far they may have evolved from these origins, owe a great deal to the strong academic foundations and clear thinking that Anthony fostered at that time.

Anthony also gave many hours of his own time to building up and chairing CAMCAT, CCAT's non-profit-making Housing Association, which purchased and managed houses in the vicinity of the College for the benefit of students. By the time of Anthony's retirement as Chair, the Association was housing over 100 students a year.

Since his retirement Anthony has developed what has always been a consuming passion, the world of Renaissance scholarship and in particular the music of the recorder. In this field he has achieved pre-eminence in a number of publications, including several guides and journal articles on performance, style and ornamentation, culminating in co-editorship of The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. At the same time, many recorder-playing enthusiasts, both in the local community and at national and international gatherings, have benefited from Anthony's enthusiastic tutelage and tireless encouragement. We are proud and grateful that many generations of APU students have benefited from his weekly recorder ensemble sessions, generously offered on an unpaid basis.

It is particularly fitting, therefore, that in his 70th year we should take this opportunity to honour Anthony Rowland-Jones with the award of an Honorary Fellowship."

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