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Dr Diana Owen awarded OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours

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Dr Diana Owen, Director-General of the Royal Over-Seas League, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to culture and tourism.

Diana joined the Royal Over-Seas League in December 2017, a not-for-profit members organisation which promotes the arts and education to its 16,000 members throughout the UK, Commonwealth, and wider world. This is expressed most vividly through ROSL’s Annual Music Competition, which has been supporting young classical musicians for 66 years.

This role is the culmination of a career in the culture and heritage sectors for Diana, first at the National Trust from 1988-2007, with responsibility for properties across South East England, followed by a decade spent as the Chief Executive Officer of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, greatly increasing its profile and leading the organisation through the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2016. 

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  2. ROSL welcomes Dr Diana Owen as Director-General
  3. Royal Over-Seas League celebrates 65 years of excellence in the arts
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  5. ROSL Annual Music Competition 2017 won by James Buckle
  6. ROSL ANNUAL MUSIC COMPETITION: Overseas Award won by Amalia Hall
  7. ROSL ANNUAL MUSIC COMPETITION: Ensembles B (Mixed Ensembles) Section Final won by Jacquin Trio
  8. ROSL AMC 2016: Ensembles A (Strings and Keyboard) Section Final won by Consone Quartet
  9. ROSL ANNUAL MUSIC COMPETITION: Singers Section Final won by Henry Neill, baritone
  10. ROSL ANNUAL MUSIC COMPETITION: Strings Section Final won by Emily Sun, violin.