Greenwich Music School directors Bethan and Ed Scolding write at the end of Autumn term 2016. Greenwich Music School’s very first lesson began on a bright morning in September 2016 on the lawn behind Charlton House, with eight conducting students starting our year-long professional training programme.

Jenny Kay writes about taking part in our Performance Workshop for adult pianists, 8th November 2016. I went along to this performance event with both trepidation and excitement. I have been learning piano again as a ‘post-retirement returner adult’ for a couple of years.

Greenwich Music School tutor and flautist Helen Mantente writes a letter to parents of children considering the flute. Dear parent, The flute is a wonderful instrument! Its warmth and breadth of tone, virtuosic ability and relatively straightforward fingering system (not to mention that a good quality beginner flute is very affordable)

Bethan Scolding, head of Greenwich Early Years Music, talks about leading this special class for Greenwich Book Festival 2016 at Charlton Toy Library. This was a lovely class to plan and teach. Eric Carle’s book is such a classic and well-loved book, with beautiful illustrations, and the story of a caterpillar’s life-cycle is fantastic food for imagination and play, with opportunities