When teaching beginner pianists, how often do we assess our strategies versus continuing to teach the way we’ve always taught? Here, Tim Topham explains why you should avoid using a method book for at...
Robert Fedder, Dartington Estate’s interim acting CEO, has released a statement claiming that the Norfolk festival and school is 'absolutely not an official, Dartington-branded activity’.
Having bagged the role of Heather McNamara in the UK tour of Heathers straight after her training at ArtsEd, Billie Bowman is on a winning streak (yellow croquet bat in hand). Hattie Fisk meets her to...
The terminology currently used to describe a teacher's musical experience, or lack of, isn't helping primary schools, writes Dr Liz Stafford.
In the second installment of our quick tips column, Liz Dunbar provides advice for new directors of music.
Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 Music & Drama Education Awards, Sally Daunt has played a pivotal role in shaping our understanding and policies around music and neurodiversity....
The aim of this resource is to provide music teachers with a toolkit that can be used to make sure that any concert or event is a success for staff, students and audiences.
Philharmonia Fantastique is a new work that takes the ‘guide to the orchestra’ genre to a whole new level. Composer and DJ Mason Bates speaks to Harriet Richards about the creative team's...
The annual music industry careers event for young people in the north of England takes place at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Saturday 8 March
The third and fourth movements of Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso, form the 2021 prescribed work for OCR A level. This work should be studied and contextualised within a number...
