Train to be a music teacher?
Posted: April 10, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: outstanding teacher training in Birmingham Leave a comment
It’s the best job in the world, and there are clear (sometimes funded) paths you can follow.
You would normally expect to take a music degree. But then a number of routes are possible.
First, conventional teacher-training, leading to a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate in Education). Homerton in Cambridge is one of the leading providers:
http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/admissions/pgce
There are other training routes, through some of which you are paid a salary to train. Rated no.1 in the country, and outstanding by OFSTED, the King Edward’s Consortium offers these and exceptional teacher training in Birmingham:
The DfE provides much more detail at:
King’s Ely, Music Department.
Posted: November 17, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: King' Ely, King's Ely Music Department, Martin Leigh Leave a commentThe new home for news about Martin Leigh is www.kingselymusic.wordpress.com.
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David Hume, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky with the Halesowen Orchestra
Posted: July 9, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Adelaide Yue, Grieg, Halesowen, Martin Leigh, new work, Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky Leave a commentSaturday 13 July 2013 at 1930
Cornbow Hall, Halesowen
David Hume: Doctored Overture
(first performance, Halesowen Orchestra commission)
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.1 ‘Winter Daydreams’
Halesowen Orchestra
Adelaide Yue, piano
Martin Leigh, conductor
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Birmingham Chamber Orchestra plays Lutosławski
Posted: July 1, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Anna Cashell, Beethoven, Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, Debussy, Eroica, Lutosławski, Martin Leigh, Partita, Rita Schindler, Schoenberg Leave a commentSunday 7 July 2013 at 1930
Artrix, Bromsgrove
Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”
(arr. Arnold Schoenberg)
Witold Lutosławski: Partita
Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane
Biber: Passacaglia from Rosary Sonatas
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no.3 ‘Eroica’
Birmingham Chamber Orchestra
Anna Cashell, violin
Rita Schindler, harp
Andrea Perrett, flute
Martin Leigh, conductor
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Richard Jenkinson plays Prokofiev
Posted: June 29, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, Martin Leigh, Richard Jenkinson, Sergei Prokofiev, Sinfonia Concertante, Solihull, Solihull Symphony Leave a commentSaturday 6 July 2013 at 1930
Shirley Methodist Church
Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides’
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante op.125
Brahms: Symphony no.4 op.98
Solihull Symphony Orchestra
Richard Jenkinson, ‘cello
Martin Leigh, conductor
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Birmingham Chamber Orchestra plays Shaker Loops
Posted: June 17, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, Debussy, Grieg, John Adams, Martin Leigh, Mozart, Schoenberg Leave a commentFriday 21 June 2013 at 2000
Wombourne Festival
Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”
(arr. Arnold Schoenberg)
John Adams: Shaker Loops
Mozart: Divertimento in D KV136
Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane
Grieg: ‘Holberg’ Suite
Birmingham Chamber Orchestra
Rita Schindler, harp
Andrea Perrett, flute
Martin Leigh, conductor
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Birmingham Chamber Orchestra in Symphony Hall — two more photographs
Posted: May 13, 2013 Filed under: concert, photographs | Tags: Birmingham, Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Martin Leigh, music, symphony, Symphony Hall Leave a commentPhotographs by and reproduced with the kind permission of F.J. Vaughan.
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Celebrating Lutosławski’s 100th birthday.
Posted: April 3, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Anna Cashell, artrix, Birmingham, Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, bromsgrove, Lutosławski, Martin Leigh, Partita, violin Leave a commentOn 7 July, a performance of Lutosławski’s Partita by Anna Cashell and Birmingham Chamber Orchestra.
More details at: http://birminghamchamberorchestra.com
More about about Lutosławski’s centenary at: Chester Novello
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Birmingham Chamber Orchestra plays Schnelzer and Beethoven
Posted: March 18, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Albert Schnelzer, artrix, Beethoven, Birmingham, Birmingham Chamber Orchestra, bromsgrove, David Quigley, Haydn, Martin Leigh, Michael Haydn, symphony Leave a commentSunday 24 March 2013 at 1500
Artrix, Bromsgrove
Michael Haydn: Symphony in G major P.16
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano concerto in D
Albert Schnelzer: Emperor Akbar
Beethoven: Symphony no.1 in C major, op.21
Birmingham Chamber Orchestra
David Quigley, piano
Martin Leigh, conductor
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Tickets available online here.
Amy Littlewood with the Halesowen Orchestra
Posted: March 13, 2013 Filed under: concert | Tags: Amy Littlewood, Beethoven, Dvorak, Halesowen, Martin Leigh, Orchestra, symphony, Weber Leave a commentSunday 17 March 2013 at 1500
Cornbow Hall, Halesowen
Weber: ‘Oberon’ Overture
Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1
Dvořák: Symphony no.8
Halesowen Orchestra
Amy Littlewood, violin
Martin Leigh, conductor
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