Kip Pratt

I am a violin, ukulele, recorder, pitched percussion, singing teacher and music workshop leader. I have an MA in Music Education and used to work as an MDL with Devon Music Service, after which I spent 7 years running the music specialism courses on the BEd and PGCE at Plymouth University. I also play in Blue Jewel Ceilidh Band and the Lyric Chamber Orchestra. I have 35 years experience of working with young people in all sorts of musical settings and I specialise in working with whole classes on instruments or in composing work. I also run a workshop called ‘Stories and Music’ for KS1 and 2, telling stories and helping children to improvise and compose music to illuminate them. I have run a number of projects for DMEH in conjunction with Elfyn Jones, including ‘Let’s Play’, ‘Sonorities’ and ‘7 Days of Music’. I spend my days travelling round Devon making music with young people!

Gail Denning

I have 25 years experience teaching music to all ages. I actively encourage and support all performance opportunities. I am familiar with both ABRSM and Trinity exam boards and prepare and accompany candidates for graded music exams should they choose that pathway.

Rose Sage B.A. (Hons) MEd PGCE Dip ABRSM

I studied music, specialising in flute performance and teaching, at Dartington College of Arts in the 1980s. I also gained my PGCE in primary teaching and worked as a primary class teacher in the 1990’s. After having my two daughters I returned to full time peripatetic teaching in 1998. Along the way I also gained my Dip ABRSM Flute Diploma and have taught flute to this level, with pupils moving on to study music at university and specialist music schools such as The Purcell School.

I have taught First Access whole class recorder lessons to classes in primary schools for 16 years in Torbay, with groups being invited to play for the Torbay Music Festival Live Concert Experience Days and as an example of good practice for Primary Teachers CPD workshop days.

I am passionate about the art of teaching and I get tremendous pleasure from introducing different styles of music to my pupils. I teach children and adults from age 7 upwards, with my specialist instrument being the flute, from beginners to Grade 8 and beyond.

Since I started teaching, whilst still a student in the 1980’s, I have become increasingly interested in teacher training particularly in the area of training non musician primary teachers to feel able and confident to teach music to their classes. I have delivered in service training for Devon Youth Music, Torbay Council and Trinity College London and I am particularly interested in working with primary schools to help them integrate musical literacy into their music curriculum teaching.

I believe that music teachers should practice what they preach! I am the Principal Flute with Torbay Symphony Orchestra, the Concert Band of Britannia Royal Naval College and also am the joint director of the Shine Steel Community Band in Dartmouth, which gives me the opportunity to play many different styles of music every week, alongside my teaching.

If you are an individual or from a school, get in touch to enquire about my availability to start or continue your musical journey as an instrumentalist or musical primary class teacher.

Lynn Davidoff

I am a Canadian music educator who has moved to the Exeter area. I have a DBS, the right to work in the UK, am certified to teach in Canada and have a QTS for the UK. I am also Orff certified. My training as a North American music educator has given me the skills to teach all instruments at all levels in mixed groups, ie: Band Class (north American style).
My most recent employed teaching of twenty years, ending in 2018, at the American School of Budapest and before that the Jakarta International School, included instructing and directing full wind band and string ensembles, chamber ensembles, musical theatre performances, IB Music, music technology and general music classes (similar to GCSE music).

I look forward to being able to contribute to the music education of Devon and am willing to accept work in a variety of musical situations. One thing I can do is come into a school and create a band program with full instrumentation right from the beginning as is done in Canada and the US.

Lisa Rowe

I am an experienced ex primary and Early Years teacher living in central Devon. I taught in primary schools in Devon, Bath and London for 26 years, including two years as solely a music lead working within a local MAT. This entailed leading choirs and school bands along with the regular curricular input. In the past two years I have left my school based role but now work as a music teacher inside and outside of schools. I also teach violin, guitar and occasionally accordion privately. I have studied on an MA in music therapy and often use these principles in my work, especially supporting those with SEND.

I now lead an Early Years music group for babies and young children in Exeter, teach violin 1:1 as a peripatetic, and also cover PPA in a local primary school where I lead WCET sessions in violin, ukelele, guitar, steel pans, whistle and other instruments. This involves also covering curricular music. Recently I also headed up a group of young folk musicians, helping them to arrange and play music together for a young person’s music festival.

I am looking for further work in any of the above areas, and will consider anything within reasonable driving distance of East Dartmoor, both in and outside of schools. I can provide references in advance if required!

Richard Miners

Mid Devon Music Ltd launched in 2015 as a way of providing schools and organisations with quality curricular and extra curricular music making in varying formats. Led by Richard Miners a leading music educator at the highest levels for over 25 years in the United Kingdom and Europe. Mid Devon Music aims to deliver quality musical experiences for pupils and communities of all ages, allowing students to develop, discover, enjoy and celebrate music of all types.

Richard Miners has enjoyed a combined career as both a professional musician and as a respected music educator. As a professional trombonist, he has worked alongside some of the leading names in jazz, popular and world music, appearing on commercial albums, broadcasts and playing throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. As an educator he has led several large school music departments, worked as a freelance workshop leader and worked with schools and colleges as an advisor on delivering schemes of work and assessment. He has also worked with the European Union to develop music in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Recently Richard has worked for one of the largest county Music Hubs in the UK, delivering and helping to develop Whole Class Instrumental and Vocal Teaching at Key Stage 1 and 2. His teaching has consistently been classified by leading professionals and inspectors as good and outstanding and due to this he has met and maintained for numerous years the highest level of post threshold teaching standards.

Richard has also been a keynote speaker for various Music Education Hubs, where he has led presentations on Whole Class Ensemble Teaching, Development of Music In Primary Schools, Curriculum Planning and Assessment and on how businesses can work with schools and the community.

As an administrator and producer Richard has worked on providing resources, events and music for large organisations including the BBC, Canary Wharf, BP, Mercedes Benz and the Intercontinental Hotel Group.

Emma Nottage

I have been a qualified primary school teacher in Devon for over twenty years and alongside this a private music tutor. I now offer one-to-one online/offline music lessons in a variety of instruments and voice to all ages. Both in schools and privately.

In the past I was the brass specialist working on a hub a BBC Ten Pieces project for gifted and talented primary school pupils in the Barnstaple area. I have also taken school choirs to take part in the Barnstaple area schools’ concerts at the Queens Theatre. I am a member of Teachers Rock choir and Academy choir.

Lisa Wall

I am a fully qualified teacher and have been teaching for 30 years, 15 as a primary school class teacher and the rest as a music teacher. I offer schools curriculum music teaching, WCET teaching in all brass instruments and the clarinet/Dood as well as small group teaching and individual lessons on brass, clarinet and piano/keyboard instruments. I am the brass tutor with the Bushall Children’s Orchestra, Newton Abbot. I have worked with Kip Pratt and Elvyn Jones on composition pieces with children, alongside Plymouth university.

For 12 years, I have been a member of Teachers Rock, an educational choir for educators and children, taking a school choir to sing with TR at Exeter Cathedral, leading the children’s Torbay Teacher’s Rock group in Exeter University Great Hall and also singing at Abbey Road Studios in London in a recording session.

Jane Anderson-Brown

I am a qualified classroom music teacher with a master’s degree in music performance (singing). I have been teaching for over 20 years in Surrey, Hampshire and Devon at both primary and secondary level. I have over 10 years experience of teaching WCET flutes, clarinets, jsaxes, recorders and fifes.
Over the last 14 years I have worked as a peripatetic music teacher in several schools in Torbay and South Devon and also worked as a tutor/conductor for the Torbay and South Devon Music centre for several years.
I have a private teaching practice at home, and have run a number of adult choirs, musical theatre groups and am the director of Red Earth Opera. I also run singing masterclasses and workshops.

Nicholas Bryant

I have been a professional pianist and violist with the Collaborative Orchestra, best known for reaching the semifinals of Britain’s Got Talent in 2016 and I come from a teaching position at St David’s primary in West Wickham, London. Before becoming a music teacher, I was a professional actor with singing and acting credits for professional touring productions. I teach piano, violin, viola and cello, beginner classical guitar and classical and musical theatre singing as well as choirs, and youth music groups such as bamd, orchestra and ukelele. I live in Chagford, West Devon and teach in local schools with some availability after school in the evenings.

Membership – Musicians Union

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* Child protection/safeguarding training certificate (completed within the last three years)
* Public Liability Insurance