“Andy Gleadhill is internationally acknowledged as a leading authority on teaching world music” (Or as I prefer to call it, The Music of Many Cultures) Music Teacher Magazine

“Andy - the way you had our youngsters totally engaged and committed within minutes of meeting them was extraordinary. What a great day.”
Simon Leese, Principal, Prince of Wales Island International School, Penang, Malaysia on Andy's World Music Workshops for pupils.

"I honestly can’t recall the last time I felt this inspired to try something new in class”. Anne-marie, Primary School Music Teacher and Delegate the Scottish Association for Music Education Annual Conference on Andy's Teacher Development sessions. 

Welcome
Andy has over 40 years’ experience as a professional musician playing with some of the leading Musicians, Artists and Orchestras in the world for live performances and film, television, and recording sessions covering all genres of music as well as playing in the orchestra for many of London’s West End Shows. He has a vast experience as a music educator and as a deliverer of music teacher development working at every level from early years to post graduate and beyond. He balances his work as a professional musician with delivering in-school world music workshops, training and professional development to both music teachers and generalist teachers around the world through his unique intensive training.  Andy has also been an Associate Lecturer on the specialist Music PGCE courses at Bath Spa University for over 20 years.

Latest news 2021 
2021 is another challenging year for music, musicians, and music education. In response to this Andy has developed a brand-new unique programme of pupil workshops and teacher development on "Music, Mindfulness and Wellbeing in a Post Covid World" which is available both in person and on-line. This was first delivered as a webinar for FOBISIA on March 30th, 2021. Andy will be presenting this as a seminar at GESS World Trade Centre Dubai on 14th to 16th November 2021. When traveling is safe again Andy will be organising music workshops and teacher professional development tours in South East Asia, China and Hong Kong, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Andy will have two new books published in 2021 "The Music of India" will complete his series of books on the music of global cultures and an exciting ground-breaking book on teaching "Western Classical Music". Contact Andy for more details. Andy was delighted to be appointed "Head of Percussion" for ESTA Education and will be teaching their Percussion based PG CERT with Chichester University from 2020. His new unique and revolutionary approach to teaching music is continues to create great excitement in the music education community across the world.
 
Music Education 
As a music educationalist he has worked at every level of music education from early year’s settings to postgraduate teaching at Universities and Conservatoires. He was for many years the head of the Bristol Arts and Music Service, which he built into a leading music support service and where he pioneered the introduction of world music styles for class instrumental teaching, setting new standards in accessibility and inclusiveness. He was also the founding head of the music education hub "Bristol Plays Music" as well as being the Director of the Bristol Centre for Music and the Arts. He has also worked as an examiner for the Guildhall school of Music and Drama and Trinity College London and worked as a consultant and mentor for the ABRSM and RSL Awards (Rockschool). He has also written study pieces and examination syllabuses for the major music examination boards.

Musician Drummer and Percussionist
As a Professional Musician Andy has played for some of the world’s leading artists for recordings, broadcasts as well as live shows. He has been the Drum Kit and/or Percussion chair for some of London's top West End Shows and has toured extensively both in the UK and overseas. 
 
Teacher Development and CPD
Andy is in great demand as a teacher trainer and delivers a wide range of workforce development and CPD to specialist and non-specialist teachers and musicians in all educational environments. He is an associate lecturer at Bath Spa University Institute for Education where he teaches on the specialist secondary music PGCE course. Andy is also a visiting Professor of Music at the Malaysian Music Teachers Training College. Andy has written a brand-new music teacher training course for becomeamusicteacher.com This is the first course of its kind that helps working musicians develop their teaching skills. Visit www.becomeamusicteacher.com for more details. Andy now specialises in delivering training and professional development to both music teachers and generalist teachers around the world through his unique intensive training and bespoke mentoring schemes
 
Books
Andy is the author of the highly acclaimed, best-selling “World-Class” music teaching guides and his books have been published on:

African Drumming
Indonesian Gamelan
Brazilian Samba
The Music of India
Steel Pans
Class Percussion
Composing with World Music
African Drumming Book Two
Percussion Buddies
The Music of India
Western Classical Music

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