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In Episode 99, Patrick chats to Mark Llewelyn Evans, from the ABC of Opera, about their work bringing Opera into Primary education, with books and workshops (0:56);Pauline Black gives a preview of her and Simon Purcell’s MTA Conference session,
In Episode 98, Patrick chats to the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, Caroline Nokes MP, about their recent report, Misogyny in Music, looking at ways that misogyny can appear amongst school-age musicians, and its wider implications.
In Episode 97, Patrick meets Mike Simpson from Inspire Works, to talk about their Drumbeatable programme, using group drumming to help young people overcome mental health challenges, and how the power of group music has been scientifically prov
In Episode 96, Patrick chats to composer David A Stowell about recent his Music & Drama Expo talk, ‘Music Composition: Tips and Tricks for those Extra Marks’, discussing the process of composition in schools.Abi Marrison (Music Mark) and Colin
**2024 MUSIC & DRAMA EXPO SPECIAL**Patrick reports from the 2024 Music & Drama Expo, chatting to exhibitors Take It Away, and Darbar Academy. Plus, interviews with two of the Expo's presenters:Deirdre Waller-Box from Brass Bands England, talki
In Episode 94, Patrick meets Liz Stafford, to chat about some of the big issues in Music Education today, and the forthcoming Music Education Solutions Conference.Gill Davies announces the MTA’s own Annual Conference to be held in May, includin
In Episode 93, Patrick meets Sarah McWatt from Amp (formerly NYMAZ), and Vic Holmes from Note Weavers, to discuss the work they do for primary music in the North of England, and find out about their forthcoming Early Years Music Conference, foc
In Episode 92, Patrick chats to Francesca Christmas and Toby Davies from Trinity College London about their Awards and Certificates in Musical Development, Digital Theory Exams, AI, and more;David Gray talks about his primary curriculum, his on
In the first episode of 2024, Patrick chats to Janet Fischer about the excellent work done by Live Music Now, bringing music to those without previous access.Dr Anna Mariguddi discusses her recent research into informal music learning in primar
In the last episode of 2023, Patrick meets Zac Moxon, Winner of the 2023 Outstanding New Teacher of the Year at the Pearson National Teaching Awards. They chat about his department at Chiswick School, the curriculum, and the secret to putting o
In Episode 89, Patrick chats to Dr Kirsty Devaney about her research into barriers faced by female composers, including young people’s perception of what it means to be a composer.And Mr Primary Music Education himself Jimmy Rotheram discusses
In Episode 88, Patrick meets Jason Poulston, the music teacher behind the fantastic resource Music Homework, which does exactly what it says on the tin!Sophia Allen from Britten-Pears Arts introduces their newly-commissioned songs as part of Fr
In Episode 87, Patrick chats to conductor Paul McCreesh about the next Gabrieli Roar project, and about singing and repertoire for young people.James Manwaring previews the next Music Teacher Monday webinar, looking at teaching harmony at Key S
In Episode 86, Patrick finds out what's in the new edition of the MTA's Ensemble magazine, with MTA president, Catherine Barker.He chats to Joe Hastings, from the charity Music Minds Matter, set up to provide a free 24/7 counselling service for
In Episode 85, Patrick meets Dice Wood, author of the teaching blog Grab and Go Guides, and chats about how to say No to excess workload, how to reduce time spent marking homework, and the message that homework sends to students.Laura Hailstone
In Episode 84, Patrick chats to Alex Aitken about his enormous new resource, Mastering A Level Music, focussing on the Edexcel course.Lauren Elliott from Music Monsters introduces the wonderful work they do with young musicians from the age of
In the first episode of the new academic year, Patrick chats to Rachel Shapey about her new book, co-authored with Nate Holder, Listen and Celebrate, written to help teachers to enrich and diversify music at Key Stage 3.Leanne Sedin and Adam Sa
In the final episode of the academic year, Patrick chats to Rob Reich-Storer about his music resource website, Rhythmstix, and to Katy Thomson about Ground:Ed, which offers workshops to help teachers and students harness their creativity, build
In Episode 82, Patrick talks to Niels Bastrup and Hans Jakobsen from aural training app Ear Master, about a new feature designed to help students with the aural tests in ABRSM exams and beyond; Mark Aitchison shares his planning for the next ac
In episode 80, Patrick finds out about the Why Music Festival, curated by Nate Holder - a one-day online festival on 4th July 2023, aimed at pupils, and featuring a wide variety of speaker. (Link below.)Olivia Sparkhall tells Patrick all about
In Episode 79, Patrick chats to pianist and composer Melanie Spanswick about her graded anthology of piano books, Women Composers, exclusively featuring music by female composers.From the 2023 RiME conference, Cynthia Stephens-Himonides (Kingst
MTA CONFERENCE SPECIALIn Episode 78, Patrick reports from the 2023 MTA Conference, held in the Loughborough Schools Foundation.Greg Coughlin discusses non-traditional routes to GCSE Music, Lisa Coley introduces the range of microphones availabl
In Episode 77, Patrick chats to Cynthia Stephens-Himonides and Maria Mendonça about incorporating Gamelan into curricula, particularly as a way of including disengaged young people.Looking ahead to the 2023 MTA Conference, sneak previews of tw
In Episode 76, Patrick chats to Vanessa Wilson-Best about current matters in music education, and she gives an overview of the forthcoming Great Escape Festival’s Music Education Conference.Composer-in-association with the BBC National Orchestr
In Episode 75, Patrick chats to Amelia Parker, co-producer of BBC Radio 4’s “Rethinking Music” series on music education, about the making of the series.Simon Toyne, Sophie Taylor-Denton and Caius Lee talk about the Rodolfus Foundation’s Choral
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