Philippa Bunting - Music - Academic Music and Strings

Philippa Bunting studied the piano and the cello as a child, later turning to the violin and viola, both of which she studied with Sheila Nelson. She began teaching at the age of 15, and subsequently trained on the Tower Hamlets project in London, under Sheila’s direct supervision. She has taught in a wide range of environments, for the London Boroughs of Islington, Tower Hamlets, Camden and Haringey as well as for the Royal Academy of Music, Pro Corda, Lake District Summer Music, Trinity College of Music, Stringwise etc. She currently heads up the team delivering the String Training Programme, an innovative course for children aged 4 – 10 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she co-ordinates the curriculum and leads on staff training, and maintains a full teaching timetable of individuals and groups....more

Elizabeth Burville - Choreography, Dance and Theatre Arts

Elizabeth began dancing at the age of 2, and her passion for dance and the performing arts rapidly grew as did her interest in drama, attaining all her Trinity College London Speech and Drama grades, including Grade 8, by the end of her time at high school. She continued her further education training at The Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, England, where she was awarded Associate Teaching qualifications in ISTD Ballet, Modern and later on, Tap.... more

Dr Colin Durrant - Music - Academic Music and Choral Education

Colin has wide experience of teaching music, choral and education courses at the University of Surrey Roehampton, the University of Maryland, where he was Visiting Professor in the School of Music (2001-2), and he was, for the 2003-2004 academic year, Choral Director at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He now leads the graduate music programme at the University of London Institute of Education….more 

Bette Gray-Fow

In her 20s and 30s Bette pursued a career as a solo and ensemble singer, performing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and a subsequent BBC broadcast, and in variety of roles in opera, light opera and oratorio.  A student of Pamela Cook, in 1976 she took part as a soloist in Bach masterclasses with Peter Pears, George Malcolm, John Carol Case and Imogen Holst at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies. Following her return to the United States in 1978, she continued her studies at the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois.... more

Pete Harris - Theatre Arts

Pete Harris is a freelance theatre director currently working for companies in London and the South of England. Recent work include All's Well That Ends Well (Young Vic), La Purpura De La Rosa, Orlando (both Dartington International Summer School), Nos Vies En Rose (Birmingham Hippodrome/National Youth Music Theatre), The Pillars Of Society (Webber Douglas Academy), When We Dead Awaken, (Royal National Theatre Studio). He has a tremendous interest in education at all levels, and has worked with over 5000 young people across the UK during the past four years….more

Luise Horrocks - Music - Voice

Luise Horrocks began her musical training at Oxford University, later taking an Advanced Studies Course at the Royal College of Music and a PGCE at Goldsmiths’ College, London. As a Soprano soloist Luise has sung extensively throughout Britain and Europe at major concert venues and Festivals. She has made a number of concert appearances in the USA and has recently returned from a series of prestigious engagements in South Africa. Her wide repertoire encompasses Monteverdi to Stravinsky and she has given a number of premieres by contemporary composers.... more

Miguel Mera - Music - Film Composition

Miguel is a versatile composer with a broad stylistic palette (orchestral, jazz, drum n’ bass, small ensembles, historical pastiche etc.). His music has been broadcast on terrestrial television in the UK and at film festivals around the world. He also teaches film composition at the Royal College of Music, London and at the Dartington International Summer School, England. He read Music at the University of York and has a postgraduate degree in Music Design for Film and Television from the University of Bournemouth….more

Angus Meryon - Music - Woodwind

Angus Meryon studied the clarinet from the age of seven with Colin Bradbury, then Principal of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. At sixteen he became a member of the National Youth Orchestra with whom he was co-leader for two years. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music with Richard Hosford, performing with the Contemporary Opera Studio of the English National Opera, and winning the Roger Fallows Prize for chamber music. Angus has twice been invited to play at the Brereton International Music Symposium in Cheshire, alongside international soloists such as Walter Boeykens and Charles Neidich.... more

Jonathan Newell - ArtsInsight Director

Jonathan has experienced a wide-ranging and international musical and teaching life, and has been in increasing demand as a consultant for schools both in the UK and in many other parts of the world. This has led him to set up ArtsInsight, as a natural growth of his own work, convinced that there is a growing need for a greater formality of collaboration between academics, artists and schools, with a deeper practice-led provision of professional development for teachers and workshops for students. Jonathan is Deputy Chief Examiner for Diploma Music for the International Baccalaureate, and on the curriculum review committee of the IB's Middle Years Programme (MYP).  He is on the professorial staff at Trinity College of Music, London, a senior examiner for Trinity College London and Senior Mentor for TCL's Profile.….more

Jonathan Owen - Drama and  Music Theatre

Jonathan was born and lives in Birmingham, England. He trained as a Music and Drama teacher at St. Peter’s College, Faculty of Education, Birmingham University.  After teaching in various schools and colleges, he became a full-time performer.  In the West-End in London he has appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar, Call Me Madam, Singin’ In The Rain, Ziegfeld and Having A Ball. National tours have included: Charlie Girl,  Some Like It Hot and Singin’ In The Rain, whilst his television work is extensive, amounting to over 60 appearances on UK television. Jonathan is also a member of the Examination Panel for Speech, Drama, Communication & Musical Theatre at Trinity College, London, and has examined and given workshops in; India (2001) in Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Bombay and Delhi.  New Zealand – North (2003) and New Zealand – South (2004)… more

Professor Ken Pickering

Academic Consultant to ArtsInsight in the Theatre Arts 

Ken is Professor of Arts Education at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and Chief Examiner for Drama and Speech at Trinity/Guildhall. He has successfully combined the careers of writer, theatre director and academic and is the author of fifteen books on aspects of theatre and the study of drama and of a large number of widely performed stage plays and musicals.... more

Gary Ryan

Gary Ryan is widely considered to be one of the world’s finest classical guitarists.  He made his London recital debut at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group in 1994 to exceptional critical acclaim and was subsequently invited to perform a series of recitals for the Kirckman Concert Society, winning universal praise for his formidable technique and high class musicianship In addition to a busy schedule giving recitals, concertos and masterclasses at music societies and festivals throughout the UK, Gary has a fast growing international reputation with performances in the USA, Greece, Cyprus, Sweden, Romania and Hungary over the past few years.... more

Richard Saxel - Academic Music and Keyboard

Richard Saxel is a concert pianist whose repertoire extends from classical chamber music and concertos to jazz, film soundtracks and his own improvised works. He has consequently worked around the world with a fascinating variety of artists, from Indonesian puppeteers to ballet dancers and trapeze artists. For four years he was one of the six pianists in Piano Circus, who perform and broadcast contemporary music at major festivals worldwide, and he has worked with the Endymion Ensemble, amongst others. Richard is much in demand as a versatile accompanist and chamber musician, working as a duo partner regularly with several accomplished soloists, and receiving several awards, including the 2002 NFMS Making Music Award. He is strongly committed to music education, and is currently Head of Piano at Cranleigh School, England, where he leads the performance related activities at GCSE and A level, and a vast number of extra-curricular concerts and performances with a huge variety of styles….more

Mary Ann Tear – Theatre Arts, Dance and Choreography

Mary Ann is a freelance Drama, Dance, and Musical Theatre exponent and an examiner for

Trinity Guildhall. Mary Ann has directed and choreographed many musicals, including, most recently, 'Escape from Pterodactyl Island" adding this to a long list which includes ‘West Side Story’, ‘A Chorus Line’, ‘Wind in the Willows’, ‘Godspell’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Henry the Tudor Dude’, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’, and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ‘Fame’, and ‘Wizard of Oz’, in which she also performed.... more

Christopher Wiltshire - Music - Composition

After early training in composition – twice winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composer’s Award – Christopher Wiltshire’s career developed through accompanying, chamber music recital work, teaching, orchestration, conducting, adjudicating and work in the professional theatre. As a Senior Examiner for Trinity Guildhall, he travels world-wide on teacher support programmes. Composing and arranging are on-going activities and, through his website www.customscores.co.uk , he offers customized scores of his own arrangements for individual school orchestras.... more

Maggie Young - Theatre Arts

Maggie is British, attended the Manchester High School of Art, perhaps the first and last state school in Britain devoted to the Arts, and she still believes that the Arts are at the centre of learning.  She trained as a teacher and then worked in London at the end of the Sixties and then began her international teaching career in Hong Kong at this time.  Travelling in Asia at that time developed in her a respect for non-Western theatre, both for its relevance in community life and its discipline.... more

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