Colin Metters' passion for music and music making remains undiminished, he continues to conduct and his commitment to the ongoing training and mentoring of aspiring conductors continues unabated. After a career lasting five decades he now devotes the major part of his time to the teaching and mentoring of aspiring conductors. He teaches every term at the Royal College of Music, is Emeritus Professor of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, visiting guest professor to the Cracow Music Academy and directs masterclasses as Artistic Consultant and Senior Tutor for the newly formed International Conducting Academy. Now into his second decade as freelance teacher and mentor he gives regular masterclasses and works with conductors on one to one mentorship.
After a lifetime’s commitment to music, conducting, orchestral training and teaching Colin Metters' experience is impressive. He has conducted orchestras across some twenty-four countries, worked with many of the leading symphony orchestras in the UK and conducted for some of the world's leading ballet companies at Covent Garden, Sydney Opera House and the Lincoln Centre New York. As Music Advisor, he travelled twice a year for ten years to conduct the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra in Hanoi and in the UK was Head of the Royal Academy's three year conductor training programme for thirty years.
Colin Metters is rightly considered to be one of the most influential of today's conducting pedagogues and his reputation as an intuitive, insightful and inspirational teacher is well established; with an impressive number of today's most successful conductors having studied with him.
“Colin Metters is considered universally as one of the worlds most sought after conducting pedagogues, in demand internationally as performer, teacher, mentor and adjudicator. If the test of any great teacher is the respect that he commands from his students, then Colin Metters is without doubt a great teacher”
His role in the future of aspiring conductors has extended to him serving on the jury for a number of international competitions including the 5th Prokofiev Competition in St.Petersburg; the 4th International Violin Competition in Quangao, China; a number of juries for the Dirigentumforum in Germany; the Atlantic Coast International Conducting Competition in Portugal, the Matacic International Conducting Competition in Zagreb and most recently the Korean National Symphony International Conducting Competition in Seoul.