Extra-Curricular Extra-Curricular Music
How to arrange Music Lessons for your child
Our peripatetic tutors are self employed and lessons are arranged by contacting them, and you would also pay them for lessons direct too. Most tutors teach at least 10 lessons per term during lesson time. Whenever possible they use a timetable that rotates, so that the students do not miss the same lesson every week.
Timetables / Lessons
Once you have contacted the tutor and arranged for your child to have lessons, they will receive a timetable giving details of lesson dates and times. There are usually at least 10 lessons per term. Please note that lessons are timetabled on a rotation basis whenever possible so that you child will not miss the same school lesson every week. Timetables are also displayed on the music notice boards on both sites. If your child is going to be absent from a lesson please remember to inform your tutor.
Other Music Activities
Music Department organises lunchtime and after school clubs including Ensembles, Choirs, Orchestras, Music Workshops, Taiko and of course, we have our Jazz Band. All students are encouraged to participate in other extra curricular musical events organised by our college Music Department.
Dave McKeown – Flute, Clarinet and Sax
Since gaining a first class music degree and a postgraduate teaching qualification, Dave McKeown has taught clarinet, saxophone and flute at QECC and other Devon schools and colleges for the past 17 years. Dave also performs professionally with many folk, jazz and rock bands and this wide range of styles is reflected in his approach to teaching. Dave also composes and arranges in a variety of styles and uses the latest music technology both as a performer and teacher. He believes strongly in encouraging students’ creativity and integrating instrumental lessons into the general music curriculum as much as possible.
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Ben Waring – Percussion and Drums
Ben teaches drums and percussion at QECC. He is a professional musician and lives in Exeter and has been teaching in and around Devon for the past 12 years.
Ben has been teaching at Queen Elizabeth's Community College for 7 years, and also teaches at two of its partner schools, Landscore and Hayward's Primary.Contact details...
Catherine Warren – Cello & Piano
Catherine Warren was born in Exeter and went to Dawlish School and Exeter College. She did her hons at Bath Spa University College and a PGdip specialising in Cello performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Catherine teaches and freelances on cello and piano, conducts the Exeter Male Voice Choir and Mellow D choir, and is musical director for the Exeter Little Theatre Company.Contact details...
Ms Claire Anstee - Singing ( Confidence Boosting & Technique)
Mr Philip Makin - Brass
Ms Annie Quicke - Flute
Graduate with experience of teaching (and playing) in a wide variety of genres. Annie's teaching is based on appreciating and fostering the individual interest and ability that each student brings, combined with careful planning, to cover, to an appropriate standard, all the varied aspects of instrumental playing, and music, including improvising, playing by ear, and music exams, (if students want to…). She keeps up to date with the latest and best in instrumental technique, musicianship and teaching through membership of instrumental organisations; attendance at master classes, workshops, and instrumental teacher training events; and is a mentor on the Trinity/ Open University training programme for instrumental teachers. She provides students with a music diary for work between lessons, and parents with annual reports at the end of the spring term. Contact details...
Mrs Dorota Stenwak - Violin
Mr Stuart Toms - Guitar
For any further information, please contact Mrs Hannah Geale, Music Administration on 01363 773401 or by email h.geale@queenelizabeths.devon.sch.uk
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