Detailed Information

Making music is the activity about which I have been most passionate throughout my life, and since January 2000, I have discovered a similar enthusiasm for teaching.  While I have taught music on a one–to–one basis at various times in my life, it has been from 2000 that I have had the most interest and commitment.  As outlined below, this is reflected in the training I have undertaken for the profession in recent years.

Teaching Experience

Overall, I have a fairly broad range of teaching experience, as it includes, in a variety of learning contexts and professional roles, music, numeracy, literacy and other National Curriculum subjects (as a supply teacher).  In addition to teaching individuals in my home, recent professional training has led at present to three concurrent posts:

• One–to–one and small–group teaching in the Jazz Piano “chair” at Tonbridge School (Kent), a senior independent school

• Classroom teaching of the National Curriculum for Music at a state comprehensive secondary school (Key Stages 3 to 5) in Cheshunt (Herts), St. Mary’s High School

• Small–group teaching for the London borough of Tower Hamlets’ Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES)

— One–to–one —

One–to–one, I teach adult and adolescent singers and most conventional instrumentalists (including drums, which I played for fifteen years) from beginner to advanced levels.  Since I specialise in jazz and the rock and dance music streams of the 1960s and ‘70s, I have taught more in relation to those genres than others.  However, I have students of western classical music, including those studying towards grade exams.  Also, since mid–2003, I have been one of the distance–learning tutors for the Open College of the Arts, for their Composing Music I and II courses (focused on western classical music).  Most musicianship skills are universal, and my students and I repeatedly discover how skills and understanding derived from one genre can inform practice in another.  Currently, I have piano, guitar, bass, voice and saxophone students, and since January 2004 for Tower Hamlets Leaving Care Services, a young adult singer with severe learning disabilities.

I hope this has been helpful and encouraging.  If you would like to enquire about lessons, I would welcome your call (020 8983-0572).

Yours faithfully,

Claude Alexander

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