He is Professor of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he founded the Conductors’ Course in 1983. In September 2013, he retired as Head of Studies after serving in the post for 30 years. He remains as Professor of Conducting at the Academy’s Postgraduate Conductors’ Course. He has given master classes in Germany, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, China, Venezuela, Vietnam and the USA. He has worked extensively with Dirigenten Forum in Germany directing master classes and serving many times as a jury member. In 2008 he represented the UK on the jury for the 5th Prokofiev International Conducting Competition in St Petersburg.