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MusicLearningLive!2009 keynote addresses will be given by
- Richard Hallam MBE, National Music Participation Director, and
- Katherine Zeserson, Director of Learning and Participation at The Sage Gateshead
Richard Hallam MBE |
> Keynote Address
> 1700-1730, Thursday 5 March
Richard Hallam spent 21 years as Advisor and Inspector for Music with Oxfordshire LEA where, as Director of Music, he was also the Head of the County Music Service. His teaching career has covered class teaching in primary and secondary schools as well as being a peripatetic teacher. He has experience of both the public and private sectors of education, the inner city as well as the rural environment. As an Ofsted Inspector, he has experience of many different schools.
He went to the Royal Academy of Music and on to Trent Park where he qualified as a teacher before embarking on a successful 15-year career as a freelance musician. He is still very much involved in practical music making, mainly as a conductor. He is often involved with working groups and steering groups at national level. He was warden of the ISM Music Education Section in 2002/2003 and has been a member of the Music Education Council Executive for nine years. For the past 15 years has been on the Executive of NAME (for two years as Chair). He was part-time music adviser to the Department for Education and Skills for five years where he was also Chair of the Music Manifesto Steering Committee. He has now retired from Oxfordshire and is the full time National Music Participation Director.
Katherine Zeserson |
> Keynote Address
> 0915-0945 Friday 6 March
Katherine Zeserson has been part of The Sage Gateshead’s evolution since the mid-1990s, when she began working with both of its founding partners, Folkworks and Northern Sinfonia. Since 2002 she’s been Director of Learning and Participation, responsible for the strategic design, direction and implementation of The Sage Gateshead’s ambitious, internationally acclaimed Learning and Participation programme. This includes The Sage Gateshead’s region-wide delivery across the 10,000 square miles of the North East and Cumbria and in The Sage Gateshead, working with people of all ages and aspirations; and most recently, three ground-breaking national programmes – REFLECT (Creative Partnerships co-mentoring programme); Sing Up!, the Music Manifesto National Singing Programme (in partnership with Abbot Mead Vickers, Faber Music and Youth Music); and Vocal Force, a national workforce development initiative for singing leaders.
She has a national reputation as a trainer, music animateur and educator working in a notably wide range of community, educational and social contexts; from pre-school settings to post-graduate and professional development training programmes.
She has taught vocal skills, music theatre, improvisation, elements of world music, community arts theory and practice at Higher Education and post-graduate level; designed and run animateur and teacher development programmes for many local authorities; designed and led leadership development programmes for the cultural sector; devised and delivered staff training for social services departments, Arts departments and community development teams. She has held several Arts-in-education residencies, working with both primary and secondary age children. Throughout the 1990s she also worked as musical director, voice coach and performer on a wide range of theatre projects.
She is Chair of the Board of the Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company, a member of the Board of the Northern Cultural Skills Partnership, and a member of the National Music Manifesto Programme Advisory Group. She performs regularly with Mouthful, a four piece a cappella vocal ensemble.
Absolution Saxophone Quartet
> Delegate Reception
> 2000 onwards, Thursday 5 March
Fine chamber ensemble from RNCM. Detail to follow.
| O Duo |
> Delegate Concert
> 1900-2000, Thursday 5 March
Formed in 2000, O Duo's first commercial CD was released in January on the Sony/BMG label (8697027202) to critical acclaim - The Daily Telegraph nominating it as CD of the Week (10 February). Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox were both scholars at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2003 with First Class Honours. In 2004 they were awarded the first Junior Fellowship to be given to a percussion duo at the RCM and in 2005 they were selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT).
Since 2000, the Duo has given recitals in music clubs and venues throughout the UK. They have performed concertos with the BBC Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras, worked at Abbey Road and Sony studios on television and film scores and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV. In 2003 and 2004 the Duo won 'Best Music Act of the Fringe' at the Edinburgh Festival and in 2006 was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society's young artist award. Other awards have included the 2005 Royal Over-Seas League Elias Fawcett Outstanding Performance Award, a Tunnell Trust award, the Philip and Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, the Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform series, and a Martin Musical Fund/Philharmonia Orchestra award.
Over the last year O Duo has given critically acclaimed recitals at Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, recorded for Channel 4 TV and BBC Radio 2, given concerts in Paris and Madrid and appeared at the Newbury, Cheltenham, Petworth, Brighton and North Aldborough Festivals. This season the Duo return to Wigmore Hall, appear at LSO St Lukes and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and give concerts in Switzerland, the Channel Islands and Mexico.
O Duo's repertoire spans more than 300 years and is a mix of popular classics and accessible contemporary music played on two marimbas, vibraphone and a huge array of percussion. The Duo has performed their own arrangement of Vivaldi's Double Violin Concerto in A minor several times and has started commissioning their own repertoire - concertos and concert pieces by Stephen McNeff, Brian Wiltshire, Ken Johnson and Alan Hoddinott.
Oliver and Owen take a keen interest in education work, working with London Musici, the Philharmonia Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, among others, and giving concerts and workshops in schools and special needs centres around the country.
Session Leaders and Performers
Session leaders' biographies will be cross-referenced with the sessions they are leading or otherwise involved in.
| Kerry Andrew |
Kerry Andrew
> Sound and Music: Composition 12-18
> 1400-1510, Thursday 5 March
Kerry Andrew is a freelance composer and performer specialising in contemporary vocal music and music-theatre with a twist of pop, jazz, folk and world music. She has a PhD in Composition from the University of York and her choral music is published by Oxford University Press and Faber Music.
Her piece for vocal trio, The Song of Doves, ended the national memorial service to commemorate the victims of the July 7th 2005 bombings and went out live on the BBC as well as featuring on Radio 4's Today Programme. Her music has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Dusk Songs, a large scale work recently premiered by the Ebor Singers in York Minster has now been released on Boreas Music.
In 2005, she premiered a large-scale visual-music-theatre work, sedna stories, which was a collaboration with a visual artist and electronica artist. Other performers of her work include Halcyon, Psappha, Black Hair, the Temple Church Choir, Nicholas Clapton, Jane Manning and the Hilliard Ensemble. Her music has been performed nationally and in Australia, Germany, Japan and Portugal.
Kerry is heavily involved in music education, with a variety of experience in teaching and running workshops for 3-18+ year-olds. She has led workshops for the Wigmore Hall, English Pocket Opera, Drake Music and Junior Trinity. She also performs with juice vocal ensemble and the avant-jazz collective DOLLYman, and curates the experimental vocal night in London, Gobsmack.
Photo © Andy Furlow
www.kerryandrew.net
| David Ashworth |
David Ashworth is a freelance education consultant, specialising in music technology. He was the Lead Consultant on Music and ICT for the National Association of Music Educators and now works for them as Project Leader on www.teachingmusic.org.uk. He is also a Lead Regional Subject Adviser for the New Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Music.
Other recent work has included consultancy for Musical Futures; advisory work for QCA, BBC, Sonic Arts Network and Teachers TV and CPD design and delivery for the Specialist School and Academies Trust and many LEAs and Music Services. He is currently leading a number of projects in the North West of England and elsewhere on the use of ICT in live performance.
| Diane Baxter |
Diane Baxter is the Musicians' Union National Organiser for both Live Performance and Teaching, and as well as presenting two sessions and participating in a panel will be on hand at the MU stand throughout the conference.
| Rita Burt |
Rita Burt is the Director of the Trinity-Guildhall-OU KS2 Music CPD Programme. Further detail to follow.
| Wendy Cook |
Wendy Cook and Lin Marsh have worked together in this country and abroad for many years developing music theatre skills with a broad range of people. They are published authors and experienced directors and devisers of small and large scale shows.
Wendy frequently works with choirs; she is resident choreographer/ movement consultant to Cantamus and Amabile, contributing to their prize-winning programmes in China and the BBC's Youth Choir of the Year.
Susan Coulson has recently taken up a Research Fellowship in the Department of Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Newcastle. A keen choral musician in her spare time, and a member of Newcastle Bach Choir, her academic interest in the arts economy led her to investigate musicians' livelihoods for her PhD, funded by the ESRC's CASE scheme. This work, quite unlike anything else ever undertaken in the UK, constitutes a comprehensive analysis of the realities and practicalities of survival in the music business in this country, along the way making some illuminating comparisons with the situation in Susan's home country, Canada.
Alison Cox
> Sound and Music: Composition 12-18
> 1400-1510, Thursday 5 March
Alison Cox studied at the RNCM and won a number of prizes and awards, including the 1978 Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for her orchestral piece Trilithon and a bursary from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust to study film music in Australia. She has taught at the Purcell School for 17 years and was appointed Head of Composition in 1997. Alison Cox has developed national and international links with many professional ensembles and organisations including UNESCO, the Nash Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta and the South Bank Centre, and a very large number of professional composers in the UK and abroad. In 2001 Alison Cox was appointed Artistic Director of ENDYMION (formerly The Endymion Ensemble). One of her educational projects The Rising Generation invited talented young under-18 composers from all over the country to participate in a special symposium and series of concerts at the South Bank Centre.
In 2004 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Alison Cox was invited to organise a special concert at Buckingham Palace in March 2005 as part of the Queen’s Music day, involving outstanding young performers from all the specialist music schools, conservatoires and other organisations in the UK. In November 2005 she was the UK Co-Director for an innovative multicultural musical event in Malta called The Commonwealth Resounds!, involving musicians from 52 different countries, hosted by the Commonwealth People’s Forum linked to CHOGM 2005.
| Claude Deppa |
A long-time British resident, born in Capetown, Claude Deppa is probably best known for his jazz work with Andy Sheppard, Carla Bley and Brotherhood of Breath. Back by popular demand after his highly successful sessions at 2008's conference in Gateshead, his extensive experience as a community musician with the Grand Union Orchestra and other ensembles, and as a leader himself, will inform his workshops on each day of this year's event.
| Andy Gleadhill |
Andy Gleadhill has over 30 years' experience as a professional musician playing sessions and live engagements with leading orchestras and recording artists covering all genres of music. He has worked for over 20 years as a teacher for LEA music services, universities and music colleges both in the UK and abroad. He delivers specialist training to drum and percussion instrumental teachers both as INSET training and as bespoke professional development and is the author of drum kit and percussion teaching publications for private, school and higher educational use.
Andy also provides training to NQTs, primary school music co-ordinators, and secondary music teachers as well as training for Wider Opportunities project providers and lectures on the specialist music PGCE at Bath Spa University, UK.
As an ethnomusicologist Andy has travelled widely around the world learning about the music of other cultures, especially in Africa, Latin America, India and South East Asia and has written publications on african drumming, Brazilian samba, Indian music and Indonesian gamelan.
As a composer Andy writes music for film, television and theatre productions, music for piano, percussion and world music ensembles as well as writing and arranging for jazz, rock and pop bands. He also writes study pieces and aural tests for the major examination boards, has worked as an examiner for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity College London and recently co wrote the new Trinity/Guildhall drum kit syllabus.
He regularly lectures on diverse aspects of world music and has recently delivered lectures and workshops to conferences of The Music Masters' and Mistresses' Association, The Federation of Music Services and The National Association of Music Educators. Andy also works as a consultant to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Karin Greenhead
Karin Greenhead trained at the Royal College of Music, London and the Institut Jaques Dalcroze, Geneva . She has worked as a performer and teacher with musicians, dancers, choreographers and teachers, opera and ballet companies, orchestras, chamber ensembles, students and professionals, and is one of the leading teachers of Dalcroze Eurhythmics and its applications worldwide.
Karin has developed a particular interest in the application of Dalcroze principles and methods to the artistic and technical training of performing artists (musicians of all kinds, dancers and choreographers) and in the training of Dalcroze Specialists. In these fields she has created innovative work, in particular the groundbreaking 'Dynamic Rehearsal Techniques' (the application of Dalcroze and general movement principles to the rehearsal and performance of the concert repertoire, solo and ensemble). Her work in this area is informed by her own performing experience as a singer, instrumentalist and conductor in recitals, opera, orchestra and chamber music.
She currently teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity College of Music and Central School of Ballet as well as giving frequent training classes in Italy. She is Director of Studies for the Dalcroze Society UK and British Delegate to FIER.
Her freelance activities include working as a performer, conductor, coach and teacher with opera and ballet companies, recitalists, ensemble groups, teachers, conservatory and university students and deaf children.
Overseas commitments have included work in Australia, USA, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria, Holland and Slovenia. Karin teaches in English, French, German and Italian.| Asafo Gyata |
Asafo Gyata graduated in Grenada in 1998 and has practised Ka-Zimba for 15 years. He has been running Ka-Zimba classes both nationally and internationally since then.
He is the founding Director of the Amanzi Healing Foundation. Asafo is also a performance poet, performing solo or with his group Nubian Sunshine. He will be accompanied in his session by percussionist Aaron Tanice.
www.amanzihealingfoundation.com