SE Music Conference 2022

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in higher education and the impact of studying and being involved with music at GCSE and A Level even if students decide not to study the subject at university. Despite being a law student, Holly spends the majority of her free time in Oxford playing at open mic nights in the local jazz club and college bars, singing in Pembroke Chapel Choir and running karaoke nights in my college bar in her college bar in her role as the undergraduate bar representative.

James Manwaring

Marion Friend MBE Marion is a

James Manwaring is Director of Music for Windsor Learning Partnership where he works across five schools in Windsor. He is an MTA Committee member and has a passion for supporting music department development – supporting teachers to get the most out of their department. James also writes his own Music Education blog

consultant in arts and education and a life coach, mentor and facilitator with a particular

interest in career development, and in supporting individuals to explore and reach their potential. She enjoys working with clients ranging from new graduates to chief executives in public and not- for-profit sectors including secondary and tertiary education, national portfolio organisations and charities. Having begun her career as a classroom and peripatetic music teacher, Marion then held senior management posts at the Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Young Musician of the Year and Wigmore Hall. She was Director of Junior Trinity at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for twelve years before moving into

and is a keen runner. manwaringmusic.blog

Dan Grimley Dan Grimley is Head of Humanities and Professor of Music at

Liz Dunbar

Liz has been a specialist Music

subject leader working in secondary schools in Bristol and York for almost 30 years. She is experienced in leading and sustaining successful Music departments and understands how innovative practices lead to effective long-term change. She has an unwavering belief in providing all students with high quality learning opportunities, regardless of their starting point. As schools moved to online learning in March 2020, Liz led a team of Music specialists at Huntington School, York, in designing and delivering a digital portfolio of KS3 and 4 lessons for Oak National Academy. Teaching via cloud learning platforms is now integrated into the department’s everyday practice. Having stepped down as Director of Music at Huntington in July, Liz is now leading Huntington’s Music outreach work. She’s also the York Pathfinder Lead for Secondary Music, and online co-host for the MTA’s ‘Music Teacher Mondays’. She has written for The British Journal of Music Education , and has articles in the current issues of Music Teacher magazine and the MTA magazine Ensemble. Liz’s chapter on Secondary school music in Huh by Myatt and Tomsett, offers non specialists an insight into the thinking behind a Music curriculum. It is primarily aimed at making the conversations between music subject leaders and their line managers both productive and meaningful. Email: liz.dunbar.music@gmail.com Twitter: @HuntSchoolMusic Website: huntschoolmusic.com

the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College. His research field is early twentieth-century music in Scandinavia, Finland and the UK, and he has published widely on topics in music, landscape, and cultural geography. He attended a state comprehensive school in Kent, where he benefitted hugely from the county music service, and taught at the Universities of Surrey and Nottingham before coming to Oxford in 2009.

her current portfolio career. www.marionfriend.co.uk

William Morris William Morris

studied Music at Bristol, and later completed a masters’ at

Kingston. Formerly at the Royal Ballet School, William was Director of Music at Shrewsbury House and is currently at the Dragon School. Principally a composer, his music has been performed in St Paul’s Cathedral, The Royal Opera House as well as television and radio.

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