"Andy Gleadhill is internationally acknowledged as a leading authority on teaching World Music"
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 35 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.

LATEST NEWS 2019 and 2020 

Andy is preparing a major tour of World Music Workshops and Teacher Development Seminars in South East Asia and China for September and October 2019. Already booked in are “Around the World in 80 Drum Beats” teacher development sessions in Bangkok and Manila, in school workshops in Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand as well as a high profile music teacher development event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Contact Andy for more details.

He will be delivering a key note session on World Music for the Kent Music Hub U.K. on 2nd of September and will be presenting his seminar "A Teachers Musical Atlas" at Music and Drama Expo in Manchester on October 10th.

Andy is presenting his paper "Are we teaching World Music Authentically?" at the Musical Intersections in Practice Conference at Cambridge University U.K. on 25th and 26th of October.

He is also presenting two seminars at the Global Education Supplies and Solutions (GESS) conference at the World Trade Centre in Dubai in February 2020 followed by a Middle East Tour.  

2019 has already 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 as well as workshops at schools in the UK, Malaysia and Thailand. Andy was also presenting at the Rockschool Music Teachers Conference in London. 


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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Books by Andy Gleadhill

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