{"id":49,"date":"2012-08-24T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:04:41","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/?attachment_id=172\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-172 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Copy-of-SDC11788-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Copy-of-SDC11788-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Copy-of-SDC11788-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have been teaching and performing music since obtaining my\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 performance diploma on the recorder from Trinity College London in 1993 and have worked with a wide variety of musical genres\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 including chamber groups, church choirs, recorder orchestras, early music chamber instrumental groups and opera in Northern Ireland, Devon, Gloucestershire and in Bristol where I now live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have experience in teaching students\u00a0 both from a solo perspective to conducting large ensembles and have a practice which covers the teaching of recorder, guitar, ukulele, flute, clarinet, trumpet, singing, percussion and keyboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am enthusiastic about sharing my understanding of the way in which music is written and I encourage all to explore the techniques behind musical composition, \u00a0from very young students who wish to write songs, to working as a consultant with professional composers. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been teaching and performing music since obtaining my\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 performance diploma on the recorder from Trinity College London in 1993 and have worked with a wide variety of musical genres\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 including chamber groups, church choirs, recorder orchestras, early music chamber instrumental groups and opera in Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/?page_id=49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABOUT ME<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furnessmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}