This is a busy time for music education, with curriculum conferences, the reintroduction of the teacher training bursary, a political party making policy commitments, and the publication of Ofsted's music subject report.
The Music for Youth Proms is also this month (14–15 Nov, featuring over a hundred schools), and this year it carries the theme of a ‘Thank you note’ to music teachers up and down the land, supported by a #ThankYourMusicTeacher campaign. I hope many will grasp the opportunity and some party-poppers. You deserve it.
The focus of this month's MT is piano and keyboard, with thought-provoking articles on pedagogy, collaboration, playing by ear, and overcoming barriers. I'm grateful to Nicholas McCarthy for taking time away from the concert platform to discuss his experience of music education and his extraordinary career as a one-handed pianist (p. 62). I'm equally pleased to welcome Penelope Roskell, author of The Complete Pianist, and to have her view on teaching pianists with small hands (p. 60) – a challenge most teachers will recognise.
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