Music & Drama Education Expo

Meet the Expo 2023 speaker: Francis Winston

Music educator, composer, and musician Francis Winston is presenting a session on ‘The art of rap in the secondary music classroom’ on Day 1 of the Music & Drama Education Expo 2023. We meet him to find out more.

FW: Calm, creative, indigo.

FW: I will be presenting on the musicality and techniques of the art of rap and how to employ them in the modern-day classroom.

FW: I was surrounded by a plethora of musical flavours from birth, provided by the Winston family university. I sang Latin mass in a cathedral choir before taking up the clarinet, then saxophone, before heading off to ‘real’ university to become classically trained. While there, I created a jazz quintet which grew into a 15-piece nu-funk, jazz ‘n’ hip hop band, complete with a string quartet and a DJ. I cut an album before attempting to create an indie label, decided otherwise, and then went into full-time education.

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