International Women’s Day: Celebrating the work of women in music education

• Gently does it: Live Music Now Lullaby Project: The humble lullaby has great potential to support new mothers and their babies with mental health, bonding, and development. We meet Live Music Now's Lullaby Project lead Karen Irwin and cellist Georgina Aasgaard to find out more.
  
  
• A new status quo: Burnout reality in music teaching: One former music teacher shares her experience of burnout, and encourages anyone who relates to this experience to seek support.
  
  
• Playing her part: Jess Gillam: Saxophonist and presenter Jess Gillam is well and truly on a roll. On the release of her films in the London Mozart Players' ‘Spotlight On…Education’ series, we meet her to find out why she does what she does.
  
  
• Early years music: mastery or dumbing down?: When working with early years, are we using our musical skills to their full potential, or are we ‘dumbing down’, thinking it's in everyone's best interests? Emma Hutchinson, founder of Music House for Children, investigates.
  
  
• Q&A: Samantha Stimpson: With 20 years of experience in arts and music education behind her, Samantha Stimpson is the founder and CEO of SLS 360, a research and consultancy agency. Her recent research for Music Mark addresses the question of how Music Education Hubs (MEHs) can instigate change to become more inclusive, diverse and representative. Hattie Fisk catches up with her.
  
  
• Sounds of South Asia: Teaching South Asian musical traditions: We are all familiar with the potential challenges of teaching music from different cultures authentically and sensitively. Anita Datta offers some guidance for sharing South Asian musical traditions with your students.
  
  
• Adapt and overcome: Take it away Consortium: Is music education truly inclusive if a disabled child or young person can't access the same opportunities as their peers? We speak to Creative United CEO Mary-Alice Stack about the Take it away Consortium and their work in mainstream primary schools.
  
  
• Drumming up future talent: Dame Evelyn Glennie: Despite being the world's premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie still finds time to support the next generation of musicians through her work with charities, schools, and conservatoires. Emily Gunton meets Dame Evelyn to learn more.
  
  
• Write like a girl: Berkeley Ensemble: While some progress has been made in the representation of women composers at all levels of music education, there's still a way to go. We chat to Ruth Coles, a head of junior music who has created an inspiring project with the Berkeley Ensemble to introduce young students to the works of Errollyn Wallen.
  
  
• She's on a drum roll: Wilamena Dyer: Fourteen-year-old Wilamena Dyer is already a highly accomplished musician. She also has Tourette's syndrome. We speak to Dyer and her percussion teacher, Jayne Obradovic, about learning music to an advanced level despite her disability.
  
  
• Emotionally in tune: Clare Hammond: Pianist Clare Hammond's educational plans for her new disc, Variations, may have been momentarily thwarted by the pandemic, but here she tells us about how adversity in her own life reminded her of the emotional and communicative power of music.
  
  
• 'Don't let that put you down': YolanDa Brown: YolanDa Brown is on a mission to promote music education in primary schools around the UK. We catch up with her to find out how her positivity and musical talent are reaching thousands of children, in school and at home.

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