Teaching Experience

As shown below, overall, I have a fairly broad range of teaching experience, and these lecturing and teaching roles have involved music programme management, curriculum design and lesson planning and delivery in a variety of learning contexts.  Since January 2000, I've taught students of piano, voice, double bass, saxophone, trumpet/flugelhorn, flute, clarinet, guitar and drums (which I played semi-professionally in my teens and twenties).

• One-to-one Teaching...

  — of most commercial music genres, specializing in jazz and improvising, with private students, of all ages (8+), of voice and most conventional instruments, at all levels of skill (i.e. from beginner to advanced and professional)

  — in the Jazz Piano 'chair' at Tonbridge School (Kent), a senior independent school

  — of piano, to learners of all ages (5+), for London Music Academy, based at Sir George Monoux [Sixth Form] College in east London (E17)

  — an effectively blind, young adult singer with additional severe learning disabilities, for Tower Hamlets Leaving Care [Social] Services

  — as a distance-learning tutor for the Open College of the Arts on their Composing Music I and II courses (focused on western classical music)

   

• Small-group and Workshop Teaching...

  — of piano, to adults (18+), for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets' Idea Stores division (the borough's network of libraries and adult learning centres)

  — of keyboard and other instruments, in primary and secondary schools of the London Borough of Newham with its visionary Every Child a Musician (ECaM) scheme

  — of musicianship and music appreciation skills as curriculum leader and teacher of Tower Hamlets College's music enrichment programme

  — as a guest–lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art (London), giving a historical and comparative presentation of the music of my primary jazz mentor, the renowned tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh

  — of numeracy, literacy and as a supply teacher, music and other National Curriculum subjects

   

• Classroom Teaching...

  — of the National Curriculum for Music in outer- and inner-London state comprehensive secondary schools (Key Stages 3, 4 and 5), such as at Debden Park High School (Loughton, Essex)

  — For a more comprehensive understanding of my classroom and group teaching experiences beyond the particulars given above, please contact me for details, as I would typically be happy to send my relevant CV.