Teaching

After a particularly exhausting band tour in the late 70's I decided that I could not stay on the rock music rollercoaster. By this time, I had achieved everything I had dreamed of as a 16 year old violinist breaking out of the classical mould.

Teaching was my way forward. It gave me the opportunity of staying involved in music without the precarious existence mandated by professional performance.

After gaining my music teaching qualification, I began teaching at Huntingdale Technical School - an alternative secondary school designed to guarantee academic success for students who had not been successful at conventional schools.

I grafted what I had learned from my playing career onto a new paradigm of classroom music. Via my work at AUSMUSIC, my ultra progressive curriculum - became the foundation document for the VET Music course and took me to Russia in 1990.

In Leningrad, I played and recorded with members of Aquarium - the band of 'Russia's Bob Dylan' - Boris Grebenshikov.