It’s clear there are continued challenges to making the DFE National Plan for Music Education a success; a recent report from Music Mark reveals the cost of delivering the plan far outweighs the allocated funding, and alongside broader challenges to all pathways in music education an existential crisis for the discipline of music is evident.

Dr Steven Berryman will consider the trajectory of recent policy initiatives, with a focus on primary and secondary education, and consider how higher education may intervene to ensure the range of musicological disciplines, and certain musical practices, continue to be viable routes for those who wish to pursue it.

Speaker's Info:

Dr Steven Berryman is a composer, arts education practitioner and researcher. He has taught secondary music since 2004 and currently holds the post of Director of Music at City of London School for Girls, having previously taught at the North London Collegiate School and the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music.

Dr Berryman has examined and moderated for GCSE and A-level Music and contributed to study guides published by Rhinegold Education as well as written numerous articles and reviews. From September 2019 he will extend his Director of Music role with a one-day per week secondment as ‘Creative and Cultural Learning Forum Strategic Champion’ for the City of London Education Strategy.

His work with arts organisations includes acting as a consultant, presenter and author for projects for the Learning Departments at Royal Opera House, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NMC Recordings, and Rhinegold Education.

He has written and presented courses for teachers for Keynote Educational, with a focus on composition teaching, and presented at conferences for A-level music students. Dr Berryman was a Teach Through Music Fellow and more recently a Teacher Advocate for Music Excellence London. For the Chartered College of Music, he led the London Music Education Network, launching November 2017.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Educators. Since May 2018 he has been a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching.