"Andy Gleadhill is internationally acknowledged as a leading authority on teaching *World Music"  Music Teacher Magazine
* Or as I prefer to call it "The Music of Many Cultures"

“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 and bespoke mentoring schemes. 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 looks like it is going to be 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 will first be delivered as a webinar for FOBISIA (please see flyer at left hand side of this page) on March 30th.  He will be presenting this as a practical workshop for teacher development at the Music Curriculum Conference in Birmingham  on 22nd of June 2021.
He will also be presenting it as a seminar at GESS World Trade Centre Dubai on 14th to 16th November 2021.
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Andy hopes to be touring again in 2021 and tours are planed in 2021 for South East Asia, China and Hong Kong, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. 
He is also presenting on-line Music Teacher Development Webinars for The British Schools of the Middle East (BSME) and the Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA). Contact Andy for further details.
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". Again 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.
    
Andy's tours of World Music Workshops and Teacher Development Seminars in 2020 were a great success. His seminar "A Teachers Musical Atlas" was presented at Music and Drama Expo in Manchester on October 10th and he presented at the Music Mark Conference in November in the UK along side RSL Awards launching their new teaching diplomas. 

2019 proved to be a great year with Andy delivering his Music Teacher Professional Development Seminar “Around the World in 80 Drum Beats” to teachers from over 17 International Schools in Singapore in February as well as over 30 teachers in Bangkok in September. In 2019 he has delivered world music  workshops at schools in the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore as well as in Europe and the USA among many other countries. 

He also continues to be been invited to many of the leading International Schools, Ministries of Educations and Universities across the globe for lectures, performances and workshops. Contact Andy for more information.

Andy and RSL Awards (Rockschool) are proud to announce their association. Andy will be helping shape the future teaching qualifications of RSL and ensuring that his experience within music education is used to inform and build the careers of future music educators. 

In September 2018 Andy was again a key presenter at the Federation of British International Schools (FOBISIA) Annual Music Teacher Conference at the British School, New Deli, India. Andy's ground breaking approach to teaching world music has also been adopted by the Public Schools System in Boston, USA. Andy was be there in November 2018 delivering teacher development training to enable schools to roll out his award winning approach. He was also appearing at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, USA. 

His new unique and revolutionary approach to  teaching music is creating great excitement in the music education community across the world.
His latest book "Percussion Buddies" has had a fantastic response from musicians and teachers and is available from Amazon or Drums for Schools.

Andy is also working with world renown organisation "Sing Up" delivering teacher development and showing how to  make any singing session a whole-class vocal and instrumental lesson.

Andy has written a brand new music teacher training course for becomeamusicteacher.com This is the first course of it's kind that helps working musicians develop their teaching skills. Visit www.becomeamusicteacher.com for more details.

Contact Andy for more information:

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, 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 worlds leading artists for recordings, broadcasts as well as live shows. He has been the Drum Kit or Percussion chair for some of London's top West End Shows and has toured extensively both in the UK and overseas. MORE

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 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. MORE

Please go to the contact page to email Andy.

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

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I am grateful for having such a wonderful career and so I support or am a member of the following Charities and Organisations:

Books by Andy Gleadhill

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