Teaching has become increasingly central to my work over the last seven years. I enjoy interacting with students and the creativity that is required to adapt to each situation.
Instrumental Teaching
- Piano and Organ teaching at Sawston Village College and the Perse School, Cambridge
- Harpsichord and organ teaching for undergraduates at Cambridge University, since 2010
Academic Teaching
- Appointed Affiliated Lecturer and member of the Faculty Board and Degree Committees at the Faculty of Music, Cambridge University, 2014
- Director of Studies in Music at Queens’ College, Cambridge, 2011 to 2015
- Employed as a supervisor (one-to-one and small group teaching): 1993 to present
Overall responsibility:
- The Birth of the Orchestra: historical course, viewing instrumental ensembles from 1580 to 1770 from a variety of perspectives (organological, social, ‘taxonomic’) and dealing with historiographical issues.
- Keyboard Skills: practical course, developing skills in harmonisation, figured bass, score reading and transposition.
- Fugue: technical course, demonstrating how to write a fugue, incorporating 18th-century fugal theory and teaching methods and consideration of 20th-century fugal writing.
Guest lectures:
- Historically informed performance (for Introduction to Performance Studies)
- French Baroque continuo style (for Advanced Keyboard Skills)
- Stylistic composition: pre-1750 options (for Advanced Tonal Skills) demonstrating approaches to the composition of a 16th-century mass, and a Baroque cantata and concerto
- Performing Purcell (for MMus Choral Studies): illustrating the use of historical sources when preparing a performance of a Purcell ode or symphony anthem
In addition to my own courses, I have acted as an examiner for the Recital Course (harpsichord, piano and Choral Performance options) and have been a member of the 1A Exam Committee and the Faculty Board; I have also given outreach seminars.
As Director of Studies in Music at Queens’ College, Cambridge, between 2011 and 2015, I taught a minimum of 80 hours per year, one-to-one and in small groups; I currently supervise on a freelance basis. In addition to my own courses, I supervise for:
- 1A Harmony and Counterpoint
- Notation Portfolio
- Dissertation
- Choral Conducting
For the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
Lecturing
- 2014 Historical course: ‘The Birth of the Orchestra’ (2nd-year undergraduate course)
- 2013– Technical course: ‘Fugue’ (2nd and 3rd-year undergraduate course)
- 2015– Practical course: ‘Keyboard Skills’ (1st-year undergraduate course)
- 2014 ‘Performing Purcell’, lecture-seminar MMus in Choral Studies (graduate course)
- 2014 ‘Eighteenth-century French continuo style’, Advanced Keyboard Skills (3rd-year)
- 2015 ‘Historically-Informed Performance’ (for 2nd-year undergraduate course)
- 2015 ‘Stylistic Composition: pre-1750 options’ (for 3rd-year undergraduate course)
Examining
- 2015 Member of the Part 1A Exam Committee
- 2015 Dissertation (3rd-year course)
- 2015 Choral Performance (3rd-year course)
- 2015 Recital (3rd-year course)
- 2015 The Birth of the Orchestra (2nd-year course)
- 2015 Style composition (2nd-year course)
- 2014- Fugue (3rd-year course)
- 2013 Assessor, 2nd-year review of PhD student (18th-century Keyboard technique in German- speaking countries)
- 2013– Fugue (1st and 2nd-year courses)
Teaching
One to one and group supervisions
- First-year course: Harmony and Counterpoint (since 2010)
- Keyboard Skills (1995 to 1997; 2010 to present)
- Second-year course: Fugue (2010 to present)
- Keyboard Skills (2010 to present)
- Debussy songs (1993)
- Musical textures and procedures (1993)
- Third-year course: Notation Portfolio (2014)
- Dissertation (2013 to present)
- Fugue (2011 to present)
- Advanced Keyboard (2014)
- MMus Introduction to GB-Cfm MS 88 (at the Fitzwilliam Museum)
- Choral conducting (2014 to present)
Other
Outreach: ‘Historically-Informed Performance’, seminar for school leavers (2014 & 2015 )
Admissions interviews: Director of Studies in Music, Queens’ College (2011); second interviewer for organ scholarship candidates (2012)
Course tutor: ‘Understanding Music: Elements, Techniques and Styles’ (A214) at Open University Summer School, Durham (2009-2010)