{"id":1890,"date":"2012-07-18T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/18\/queen-drummer-roger-taylor-has-been-added-as-a-new-patron-for-music-at-guildfords-academy-of-contemporary-music\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:47:44","slug":"queen-drummer-roger-taylor-has-been-added-as-a-new-patron-for-music-at-guildfords-academy-of-contemporary-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/07\/18\/queen-drummer-roger-taylor-has-been-added-as-a-new-patron-for-music-at-guildfords-academy-of-contemporary-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen drummer Roger Taylor has been added as a new Patron for Music at Guildford\u2019s Academy of Contemporary Music."},"content":{"rendered":"

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He joins the Academy alongside Patron for Industry, music executive Nigel Elderton, and Patron for Education, Lord Lingfield.vSurrey resident Taylor cut the ribbon last year on the Academy\u2019s 80-seat Roger Taylor Zildjian Studio where he delivered a master class to ACM students and donated Queen memorabilia to display in the performance studio.<\/p>\n

Taylor said: \u201cI am delighted and honoured to be a patron of the Academy of Contemporary Music. Amazing places like this didn\u2019t exist when we were learning to be a group.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine the impact it would have had: I guess we would have been a whole lot better. I wish all students at least some of the luck, life and career that I have had!\u201d<\/p>\n

Julia Leggett, executive director at ACM, said: \u201cRoger embodies everything about ACM, from his passion for performing, to the talent and hard graft on which he has built his astonishing career.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger is a musical icon who our students and staff really look up to. We are incredibly proud to have him on board.\u201d<\/p>\n

ACM UK alone is home to 1,200 full-time and 400 part-time students. With additional campuses across Europe, South Africa and the US, high-profile alumni include Amelle Berrabah (Sugababes) and current number one album artist Newton Faulkner.<\/p>\n

Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He joins the Academy alongside Patron for Industry, music executive Nigel Elderton, and Patron for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}