"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 NEW DATES 2018/19

Andy has new dates for his 2018/19 world tours where he will be delivering his unique In School World Music Workshops and Professional Development Training to Teachers.

In September Andy has again been invited to be a key presenter at the Federation of British International Schools (FOBISIA) Annual Music Teacher Conference at the British School, New Deli, India. He will also be delivering his world music workshops to schools in India at this time.

A major tour of International Schools in Asia is planned in October contact Andy to see how you can be part of this tour.

Andy's ground breaking approach to teaching world music has been adopted by the Public Schools System in Boston, USA and Andy will be there in November delivering teacher development training to enable schools to roll out his award winning approach. He will also be at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in the USA In November. Contact Andy to set up a meeting.

His new unique and revolutionary approach to  teaching music is creating great excitement in the music education community across the world.

Contact Andy for more information.

Andy will be presenting his Workshop/Seminar "Teaching Music-International Perspectives" at Music Expo 2018 Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, on 11th of October 2018 and will be delivering further seminars throughout the year.
 
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.

Recently Andy was the key presenter and trainer at the Federation Of British International Schools In Asia (FOBISIA) Music Teachers Conference at Harrow International School in Bangkok. Andy also has presented his vision of Music Education at the British Schools in the Middle East (BSME) conference in Doha. His 2016/17 tours included Dubai, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Spain, Germany and the UK.

Email Andy via the contact page to see how you can be part of this exciting work.

Andy is the Head of Education and Learning for Drums for Schools Ltd www.drumsforschools.com and 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.


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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