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Nancy Groves

New Year Honours: arts and heritage

Quentin Blake prize print
Sir Quentin Blake tops this year's New Year Honours – but who else made the list? Photograph: Quentin Blake

Knighthood

• Quentin Saxby Blake, illustrator – for services to illustration

• John Mark Nicholas Leighton, director general, National Galleries of Scotland – for services to art

• Martin Gregory Smith, philanthropist – for charitable services to education, science and the arts

CBE

• Alexander Charles Beard, deputy director, Tate – for services to the arts

• Michael Berman, chairman, Southbank Sinfonia – for services to music and philanthropy

• Kate Bush, singer and songwriter – for services to music

• Tracey Emin, artist – for services to the arts

• Ian Livingstone, life president, Eidos – for services to the computer gaming industry

• Richard Long, landscape artist and sculptor – for services to art

• Ruth Mackenzie, director, Cultural Olympiad – for services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

• Arlene Phillips, choreographer – for services to dance and charity

OBE

• Dr Lisa Appignanesi – for services to literature

• Prof Derek William Aviss, lately executive director and joint principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance – for services to higher and music education

• Michael Billington, theatre critic, The Guardian – for services to the theatre

• Nica Burns, theatre producer and director – for services to theatre

• Professor John Butt, Gardiner professor of music, University of Glasgow – for services to music in Scotland

• Jennifer Ann Cooke – for services to musical theatre and to the community in Northern Ireland

• Pauline Etkin, chief executive officer, Nordoff-Robbins – for services to music therapy

• Eleanor Henta Fazan, choreographer and director – for services to dance

• Sheila Margaret Fleet, jewellery designer, Sheila Fleet Orkney Designer Jewellery – for services to the jewellery industry

• Philip Neville French, film critic, The Observer – for services to film

• Keith John Griffin, musician – for services to music in Wales

• Darren Richard Henley, managing director, Classic FM – for services to music

• Nichola Johnson – for services to museums and cultural heritage

• Monika Kinley, art dealer and artists' agent – for services to the visual arts

• Adrian Anthony Lester, actor – for services to drama

• Dr Marian Frances Liebmann – for services to social justice through art therapy and mediation in Bristol and Overseas

• John Jeremy Lloyd, screenwriter – for services to British comedy

• Ewan Gordon McGregor, actor – for services to drama and charity

• Dr Robert McManners – for services to the heritage of the North East and to the community in Bishop Auckland, County Durham

• David Munns, chair, board of governors, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy – for services to the music industry and charity

• František Jan Nevrkla, chair, Phonographic Performance Limited – for services to the British music industry

• Dr Richard Reid, master stone and wood carver – for services to heritage and restoration

• Wilfred Ainsworth Walker – for services to the promotion and development of live black music

• Erica Whyman, chief executive, Northern Stage – for services to theatre in the UK

MBE

• John Henry Batchelor, illustrator – for services to illustration

• Nicola Benedetti, violinist – for services to music and to charity

• Deborah Bestwick, director, Oval House – for services to drama

• Pamela Beatrice Mary Blakeman, local historian – for services to heritage in Ely, Cambridgeshire

• Robert Ian Burn-Murdoch, curator, Norris Museum – for services to the heritage of St Ives, Cambridgeshire

• Patricia Cumper, playwright and artistic director, Talawa Theatre Company – for services to black British theatre

• Spencer William Freeman – for services to music and the arts in Eastbourne, East Sussex

• Janet Marie Gaskell – for services to Caribbean carnival and the community in Leicester

• Coral Lydia Gould, singing teacher – for services to music and the arts

• Catherine Greig, general manager, The Travelling Light Theatre Company – for services to theatre for young people in Bristol

• Dr Melissa Hardie-Budden – for services to heritage and the arts in West Cornwall

• Vincent Thomas Patrick Hayes, founder, Brick Lane Music Hall – for services to British music hall

• Cassa Pancho, artistic director and founder, Ballet Black – for services to ballet

• Caroline Parker, actress – for services to deaf theatre and drama

• Gerald Parkes, founder, Parkway Cinemas – for services to the UK cinema industry

• Frank Paterson, lately chair, Friends of The National Railway Museum – for services to museums

• Rachel Barnetson Phillips – for services to Scottish country dancing

• Howard Ian Rabin, founder and librarian, Lubavitch Lending Library – for services to libraries

• Siobhan Redmond, actress – for services to drama

• Philip Mark Shapiro, chair, Cornerhouse – for services to the arts

• Trevor George Tipple – for services to church music in Worcestershire

• Catherine Oliaku Ugwu, executive producer (production), London 2012 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies – for services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

BEM

• Norman Ferguson Cutter – for services to music in Warrington

• Margaret Winifred Davies – for services to music and the community

• Susan Harrison – for services to independent community cinema in Aldeburgh

• Sheila Hatcher, pipe major, Dagenham Girl Pipers – for services to music

• Diana Elizabeth McDowell – for services to heritage in Shaftesbury, Dorset through the Gold Hill Museum

• Bridget Philomena Meyler – for services to music in Northern Ireland

• Brenda Murray, co-founder, Liverpool Historical Society – for voluntary service to heritage and history in Liverpool and Seaforth

• Shirley Williams – for services to music, the community in West Wales and charitable services

• Geoffrey William Winter – for services to music and the community in Grantham, Lincolnshire

• Gwenyth Anne Yarker, curator and trustee, Dorset County Museum – for services to museums

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