Sally Cathcart, PhD, MA (music education), BA (hons), is a musician, teacher and researcher who is involved in many aspects and levels of music education.
Primarily a pianist, she is founder and Director of the Oxford Piano Group, designed to give adult pianists the opportunity to develop and share their music-making in a supportive and relaxed atmosphere. In addition the Oxford Piano Group also provides piano teachers with a forum to meet and discuss ideas and good working practice. Sally is still closely involved in piano teaching herself and has a wide and varied piano teaching practice that encompasses children, adults, beginners, advanced students and teachers. Her passion is for teaching beginners but she also has diploma level students. She is an examiner for the ABRSM and a Principal Tutor on the Piano Teachers' Course EPTA UK.
As well as teaching the piano Sally has wide experience of classroom teaching where she has taught all ages, from 3 - 18 years old. She is a qualified Kodály teacher and the principle of the sound before the symbol underpins all her work. She was appointed Director of Development at the Voices Foundation in August 2013 and is working with the Foundation's Advisory Teachers to expand and extend their work and current resources. Sally is also a choral conductor and her children's choirs in the past have sung at the Royal Albert Hall and been finalists in the Choir of the Year competition. Until July 2014 she was Music Director of InCantata, a female choir based in Newbury, Berkshire.
In 2005 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which enabled her to visit South Africa, Hungary and Cuba and experience their music education systems. This led to a deeper understanding of the benefits of an ear-led approach to instrumental teaching.
Sally recently completed her PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London and is in the process of publishing some of the information she gathered about piano teachers. In addition she is working on a piano book for beginners and Let's Play - Songs and Games for instrumental teachers.
She gives frequent lectures about many aspects of piano teaching and music education and has presented research papers at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, Orlando, USA; Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter; Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Most recently she presented two papers at the International Society of Music Education 2016 Glasgow conference and in 2017 she has been invited to present at the Music Teachers National Association conference in America.
In 2015 Sally and her co-Director Sharon Mark-Teggart launched The Curious Piano Teachers.
Primarily a pianist, she is founder and Director of the Oxford Piano Group, designed to give adult pianists the opportunity to develop and share their music-making in a supportive and relaxed atmosphere. In addition the Oxford Piano Group also provides piano teachers with a forum to meet and discuss ideas and good working practice. Sally is still closely involved in piano teaching herself and has a wide and varied piano teaching practice that encompasses children, adults, beginners, advanced students and teachers. Her passion is for teaching beginners but she also has diploma level students. She is an examiner for the ABRSM and a Principal Tutor on the Piano Teachers' Course EPTA UK.
As well as teaching the piano Sally has wide experience of classroom teaching where she has taught all ages, from 3 - 18 years old. She is a qualified Kodály teacher and the principle of the sound before the symbol underpins all her work. She was appointed Director of Development at the Voices Foundation in August 2013 and is working with the Foundation's Advisory Teachers to expand and extend their work and current resources. Sally is also a choral conductor and her children's choirs in the past have sung at the Royal Albert Hall and been finalists in the Choir of the Year competition. Until July 2014 she was Music Director of InCantata, a female choir based in Newbury, Berkshire.
In 2005 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship which enabled her to visit South Africa, Hungary and Cuba and experience their music education systems. This led to a deeper understanding of the benefits of an ear-led approach to instrumental teaching.
Sally recently completed her PhD at the Institute of Education, University of London and is in the process of publishing some of the information she gathered about piano teachers. In addition she is working on a piano book for beginners and Let's Play - Songs and Games for instrumental teachers.
She gives frequent lectures about many aspects of piano teaching and music education and has presented research papers at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, Orlando, USA; Research in Music Education Conference, University of Exeter; Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Most recently she presented two papers at the International Society of Music Education 2016 Glasgow conference and in 2017 she has been invited to present at the Music Teachers National Association conference in America.
In 2015 Sally and her co-Director Sharon Mark-Teggart launched The Curious Piano Teachers.
