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Roderick Watkins
Roderick Watkins, DL (born 1964) is a composer and the Vice Chancellor (and former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation)) at Anglia Ruskin University, England.[1][2][3] He was appointed to the University in 2014 and served briefly as Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences. He was appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Anglia Ruskin in 2015 before becoming Vice Chancellor in 2019. He was previously Professor of Composition and Contemporary Music at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, England from 2005 to July 2014, where he was Programme Director for undergraduate Music and taught composition and contemporary music.
Watkins was educated at Gresham's School and then took a degree in Philosophy and Composition at Oberlin in the US before studying at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won all of the Academy's main prizes for composition, completed his doctorate and became a Leverhulme Fellow. His teachers included Hans Werner Henze, Richard Hoffmann, and Paul Patterson. He also spent a year at IRCAM in Paris and later returned to IRCAM as a “compositeur en recherche” (research composer).
He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 2021.[4]
- ^ "Professor Roderick Watkins - Profile - ARU". www.aru.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "Professor Roderick Watkins DL – The Lieutenancy of Cambridgeshire". Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "Roderick Watkins permanently appointed as Anglia Ruskin Vice Chancellor". Chelmsford Weekly News. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
- ^ "ARU Vice Chancellor named Deputy Lieutenant - ARU". www.aru.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
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