Music Teacher Magazine November 2015 Back Issue

Global superstar Lang Lang kicks off our piano focus with a look at his new piano tutorial app that is helping to inspire young people to explore classical music; advice for choosing and financing the right piano for your school; finding opportunities for pianists to play with other musicians; and our guide to electronic keyboards for schools. Plus, Julian Lloyd Webber on his new life as principal of Birmingham Conservatoire; ACE’s Cultural Education Challenge calls for the arts and education sectors to work together to provide a stronger cultural education for young people; using the recorder as a ‘developmental’ rather than a ‘first access’ instrument; the benefits of setting up a teaching co-operative when local authority-employed music teachers are forced into redundancy; Youth Music’s Matt Griffiths on England’s National Plan; reviews of the latest music technology products and sheet music for clarinet, flute and piano; contracts for private teaching; and Inspire-Music’s Katherine Zeserson introduces an inspirational ideas-sharing initiative.