SE Music Conference 2022

MTA CONFERENCE 2022 | ST EDWARD’S, OXFORD

the Tiffin Girls’ School, Kingston-upon- Thames, is a subject expert for Ofqual, and a former A Level examiner for Eduqas. He is the creator of many well-used music education resources, and has worked as a proofreader for various exam board publications. He is also a freelance trombonist, bassist, arranger and composer, having played Jazz, Classical, Pop, Rock, Ska and Oompah all over the world for over two decades, notably with the UK’s top ‘Oompop’ quintet, Oompah Brass. Patrick presents and produces the MTA podcast, ‘Teaching Notes’, having conducted over 150 interviews with leading educators and musicians, across 57 episodes. Patrick is the producer of the BBC Radio 2 show ‘Top Brass’, and has also worked as a producer for BBC Radio 3 (Breakfast, Jazz Record Requests, Jazz Legends), and (very!) occasional presenter (The Early Music Show). His arranging work includes a whole orchestral concert of Elvis Presley songs, arrangements for Rainer Hersch and the Crouch End Festival Chorus, as well as choral arrangements for the BBC (Last Choir Standing), and a series of 1980s adverts in a 14th-century style for and Louis Andreissen. Her music has been recorded by NMC and published by Faber. Rachel has worked within the education departments of most of the UK’s orchestras and opera companies. The majority of her work is for the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Rachel has written well over twenty pieces for LSO Discovery and fifteen community operas, including seven for ETO. Alongside this she is increasingly in demand as a concert presenter. She is the presenter of the LSO St Luke’s lunchtime concert series and LSO Live Streams and regularly presents children’s concerts and pre-concert events for LSO, LPO, SCO, BBC Proms and others. Rachel is passionate about the value of using classical music in the classroom. As lead tutor on the LSO’s On Track teacher Channel 4… honestly. www.patrickjohns.co.uk Rachel Leach Rachel Leach studied composition with Simon Bainbridge, Robert Saxton

training programme and the LPO’s Creative Classrooms programme Rachel has trained over 100 teachers. She is the author of many free online classroom resources including LSO Play and BBC Ten Pieces lesson plans (all four sets). In Spring 2013 Rachel was awarded Honorary Membership of the RCM in recognition of her education work.

Keith Ayling Keith Ayling is chairing our Music Administrators’ Forum. A songwriter

and speaker, Keith is a Senior Lecturer in Songwriting at Leeds Conservatoire and a TEDx Speaker. He has written and released 14 albums over a 33- year career, including the biggest CCM album in the UK, and founded his own music education charity reaching over 20,000 young people in Eastern Europe with creative music lessons. In 2001, following 9/11, his song ‘Heaven Help’ was playlisted by New York radio stations and remained there for nine months. At Leeds Conservatoire he works with students on the fundamentals of songwriting, the building blocks of hits and hooks and how to develop your own individual artistic voice. He has spoken numerous times at the Music Education Expo as well as for the Prince’s Teaching Institute. His most recent work has been collaborating with Ellie Goulding’s Musical Director and Kaiser Chief’s bass player. Kelly-Jo Foster-Peters Kelly-Jo Foster- Peters taught curriculum music in both mainstream and SEND schools for 20 years. She have included being the SEND music teacher representative on the DfE Music Hubs Advisory Board (2014-2017), an SLE (Special Lead Educator) for the Southampton Inclusion Partnership and SEND Music Advisor for Southampton Music Hub. Kelly-Jo is the author of Jumpstart! Music: Ideas and Activities for Ages 7-14 . In her role as a cellist, Kelly still performs with orchestras and string quartets, which complements her passion for musicking on iPads. is currently finalising her doctoral research study on SEND music education partnerships. Past roles

Rachel Shapey Rachel is

passionate about composing in the classroom. She is the founder and director of I Can

Compose ( www.icancompose.com ), an innovative company dedicated to inspiring the next generation of great composers. Based in Manchester, Rachel has taught in both state and independent secondary schools. She won the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation Business Award in 2018 and Outstanding Music Education Product Award in the 2019 Music & Drama Teacher Awards for Excellence. Rachel is author of How to Teach Composition in the Secondary Classroom: 50 Inspiring

Ideas (HarperCollins) which was shortlisted for the 2022 Music Teacher Awards.

Rebecca Berkley Rebecca Berkley is an Associate Professor in Music Education at the

University of Reading, and director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes. She teaches music education on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Reading, specialising in classroom musicianship, choral education, and leadership. She is the founder of Universal Voices, a free children’s community choir at the University. Universal Voices offers high quality choral education for children and opportunities for student conductors to learn to conduct by working with the choir. Rebecca also works with the British Kodály Academy and Sing for Pleasure as a musicianship tutor.

Patrick Johns Patrick has a portfolio career. He teaches music at Key Stage 3 to 5 at

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