Hello and Welcome…
My mission is to create and facilitate an environment where you have the opportunity to grow and experience all that music offers, no matter where you are on that journey, and no matter how you engage with music.
Diploma Mentoring
Studying for a teaching diploma can be a lonely, overwhelming and uncertain experience to battle through on your own. I offer a simple and flexible way to help you prepare for your teaching diploma, which centres around a sense of creativity and imagination.
Private Tuition
Here in Lichfield, I offer a range of simple and flexible options to help students learn, all of which centre around creativity and imagination. Lessons can provide a gateway to a whole range of musical experiences, hours of enjoyment, and a lifetime’s fulfilment.
More of my skills
Piano accompanist
Composer, arranger,
& publisher
Freelance writer & researcher
Latest Blog Posts
She Moved Through the Fair: A Soundscape Experiment
Have you ever included samples of birdsong or other recordings in your music? In this guest blog post, Ruth Carlyle shares her reflections on creating a soundscape mix of the Irish folk-song ‘She moved through the fair’.…
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My Top 10 Piano Duet Books for Beginners
Piano duets have always been an important part of my teaching. I’ve written about them many times before and recently reviewed a brand new book for piano duet. With restrictions beginning to ease, a return to face-to-face…
Review: Ask the River (Rachel Portman)
Anyone with even a passing interest in music for film and television cannot fail to recognise the name, Rachel Portman. Born in 1960, and educated at Worcester College, Oxford, Portman has been composing music for the screen…
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