Personal Details
Born in 1970, Jo began playing the piano at the age of six. She took up violin lessons at primary school but, after starting the flute at high school and having reached grade 5 on the violin, she gave it up and concentrated on flute and piano. Jo attended Colchester Institute School Of Music studying piano with Ian Ray and Zusannah Nash and flute with Bridget Durgan. In 1992 she gained a BA(Hons) degree in Music and went on to study for a PGCE at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
After successfully completing her PGCE, Jo began teaching flute, clarinet, saxophone and music theory privately and now runs a busy teaching practice of around 55 pupils a week.
In 1996 Jo passed an LTCL diploma in Piano Teaching and in 1998, ALCM’s in both flute and saxophone performance. Currently she is studying for an ALCM in Clarinet performance with clarinettist Anthony Bailey.
As well as teaching privately Jo teaches clarinet and saxophone at Hadleigh High School and piano and woodwind at Kesgrave High School. She is also a moderator for Edexcel’s GCSE Music Composition paper and also examines the GCSE Listening and Appraising paper.
She is a member of the ‘Incorporated Society of Musicians’ and ‘The Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain’.
Some Sample Music
Have a listen to a few of my own sample music tracks:
- Cool Cuckoo
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- Scampering Squirrel
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- Bouncing Bunnies
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- Marching Mice
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- Waltzing Woodpecker
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- Melody for Richard
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