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–)
Blackheath Opera Youth and Special Schools Music Director Macbeth (Summer 2020)
Music Teacher and Conductor of Chamber Choir Fulham School (2016- 2021)
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
- 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.
