Music Mark takes stock of where we are with the revised National Plan for Music Education and the changes it means for schools.
Free online resource from MEHEM UpRising! includes tried-and-tested materials.
Composers aged 18 and under and living or attending school/college in Surrey are invited to submit new works for piano
The competitor shortlist for the international competition in Armagh, 21–23 August 2023, has been announced.
Increasing numbers of instrumental repertoire and tutor books are including backing-tracks for students to play along to. But are they a blessing or a curse? Kay Charlton considers the pros and cons
Initial work will focus on talent pathways, youth voice programmes, and data gathering
For some musicians, instrumental teaching in schools is a full-time vocation. For others, it provides a welcome element of relative stability in an otherwise volatile and unpredictable world of...
There are few things more excruciating than hearing a student stumbling through a performance without any sense of rhythmic flow. They may be playing all the correct notes, but if there’s no sense of...
Many of us were taught to ‘do as teacher says’. But Ariane Zandi, a cello teacher at RCM Junior Department, has developed a different approach – one that encourages musical instinct and autonomous...
