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  SamPop

Teacher and Facilitator

Teacher and Facilitator 

​My energy and enthusiasm for passing on my performing skills has made me a popular and effective teacher of children ranging from primary school to sixth-form. I have begun to specialise in helping student groups create their own music, drawing on my interpersonal as well as compositional skills. 

Inclusive Choir at City Lit (2020–) 
  • Facilitating the creativity of the 10-14 adult members whose special educational requirements include cerebral-palsy, blindness, and serious spinal injuries.
  • Recent Nightshift project with London Sinfonietta and Cathy Miliken, with encore written by Inclusive Choir with Sam.
  • Focussing on song-writing and improvisatory, pitched and unpitched vocal techniques.
 
Blackheath Opera Youth and Special Schools Music Director Macbeth (Summer 2020)
  • Preparing the youth chorus and special schools programme to join the professional production
  • Devising a pre-performance piece with  members of the youth and special schools programme 

Director of Music for the Family Eucharist at All Saints Fulham (2017 – present) 
  • Training, accompanying and conducting the Junior All Saints Singers (JASS), especially in the build up to their BBC Christmas Eucharist Broadcast 2017.
  • Fun-focussed combination of song writing, games and singing has led to the number of choristers doubling. 
  • Online corona sessions through Facebook Live
  • Leading one off Singing Days workshops
 
Music Teacher and Conductor of Chamber Choir Fulham  School (2016- 2021)
  • Recording of our first CD of songs by pupils and living composers
  • Cadogan Hall  Choir of The Year Competition  
  • Building sight-reading skills and theory knowledge. 
  • Commissioning new works by young composers Piers Kennedy and Tim Fisher. 
  • Accompanying, arranging and composing pieces for the four choirs and 100+ children who sing in school.
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