| Master of the Music, Chelmsford Cathedral | 1962 - 1965 |
| Member of the Professorial Staff, Royal College of Music | 1962 - 1965 |
| Director of Music, University of East Anglia | 1965 - 1973 |
| Dean of the School of Fine Arts and Music, University of East Anglia | 1968 - 1971 |
| An Artistic Director (later Vice-President) of the Aldeburgh Festival | 1968 - |
| Conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society | 1973 - 1982 |
| Director of Music, King's College, Cambridge | 1974 - 1982 |
| Lecturer in Music, University of Cambridge | 1974 - 1982 |
| Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama | 1982 - 2001 |
| Chairman of the Examinations Board of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music | 1986 - 2000 |
| Chairman of the Diploma Board of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music | 2000 - 2001 |
| President of the Royal College of Organists | 1992 - 1994 |
| Chairman of the British Federation of Young Choirs Advisory Council | 1993 - 2000 |
| President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians | 1994 - 1995 |
| Chairman of the Committee of Principals of Conservatoires | 1994 - 1998 |
