Chaired by David Francis, Senior Producer, Contemporary Music Network, Arts Council of England
Gillian Moore: Head of Contemporary Culture, South Bank Centre, London a role she combines with the job of Artistic Director of the London Sinfonietta. In 1983, Gillian pioneered the role of orchestras in education by setting up the London Sinfonietta’s now internationally renowned education programme, bringing contemporary music into schools, prisons and the community. In 1998, she brought this inclusive approach to contemporary music to the role of Artistic Director of the International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days in Manchester. Gillian has played an important role in shaping arts education in the UK and abroad, over two decades, as a co-author of the National Curriculum in music; as a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music; and as an adviser and consultant to orchestras, theatre companies and funding bodies.
David Price: a consultant working in arts and education who began his career as a performing musician, then went on to work extensively in adult, further, higher and community education. He devised the innovative curriculum for Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where he served as Director of Learning for seven years. Before that, he was Director of the Arden School of Theatre and Senior Curriculum Manager at City College Manchester. Through his current role as project leader of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Musical Futures project, he is examining the potential for Personalising Music Learning, in and out of school. He was recently curriculum adviser for Nepal’s first dedicated Music School, and ran the Music Leadership Institute in Georgia, USA. In 2001 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Katherine Zeserson: Learning and Participation Director at The Sage Gateshead, she has a national reputation as a community musician (widely admired singer of jazz, contemporary and improvised music who composes and performs regularly with the a cappella vocal ensemble Mouthful) educator and trainer, in many contexts - the first music development worker for the White Lion Street Free School; co-founder of the Haringey Young Women’s Music Project; active in the Shape network in its first five years; for 10 years from 1984 Community Music Development Worker for Them Wifies, the Northeast’s longest established community arts project. During the1990s she worked as musical director, voice coach and performer on a wide range of theatre projects with Northeast theatre companies. Her education sector experience as a music animateur, voice teacher and choral trainer ranges from nursery to degree level and has included teaching at several of the Northern region’s universities and colleges; also designing and running animateur and teacher development programmes for many Northeast local authorities.
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