I am a freelance music teacher with brass specialism. I also teach clarinet, recorder, saxophone and flute lessons.
I have experience teaching individual, group, and whole class lessons for children of primary and secondary school age. I also run classes and a wind ensemble for adults.
I accept beginner to advanced levels in the study of the cornet, trumpet, baritone and trombone though would consider tutoring students on other high and low brass instruments. Woodwind lessons cater for beginner levels. My tuition extends to music theory and beginner piano.
From Sept, 2019 I am a Director at Hot House Music Ltd, Swansea, where I run lessons and ensembles in the local area for adults and children. There are also touring and recording opportunities for our students.
From September, 2014, I was a County Music Group Tutor at Five Valleys Music Centre in Stroud, where I conducted and arranged music for an adult wind band and took senior theory classes. I previously ran the junior orchestra. I was also the brass specialist for First Access tuition (now called, Gifted and Talented tuition), where I guided groups of children or adults through a crash course in learning an instrument for the first time.
In addition, I was a Whole Class Ensemble Tutor (WCET), as part of Gloucestershire Music. I taught a successful scheme of work to primary school children on a 10, 20 or 30 week programme. I delivered whole class brass lessons to classes of children throughout the county, developing experience working with school from a range of backgrounds.
On a self-employed basis, I ran year round whole class recorder lessons for year 3 in one primary school and have previously operated as a Music Coordinator within another primary school, where I taught Foundation Years Music, whole class recorder and whole class brass lessons to children in year groups 2 to 6. As a result, I have developed my own series of whole class lessons.
As part of my current work, I am a peripatetic tutor, running lessons within and outside of schools for children from years 2 to year 13. Although the main tuition in these lessons is on trumpet or cornet, I am also able to teach other instruments from the brass family and beginner recorder, flute, clarinet and saxophone.
