ANDY GLEADHILL

Biographical notes

Andy has over thirty years experience as a professional musician and teacher.
As a Drummer and Percussionist Andy has played with some of the leading recording artists and Orchestras in the world for film, television, and recording sessions as well as many West End Shows.
As an Ethnomusicologist, Andy has travelled widely around the world especially in Africa, South America, South East Asia and India playing and learning about the music of different cultures and regularly lectures on the music of diverse cultures. Andy has had many papers and articles published on world music topics and his books have been published on African Drumming, Indonesian Gamelan, Brazilian Samba, the Music of India and Composing with World Music.
He is a visiting lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Bath Spa University and teaches on the specialist secondary music PGCE course. Andy is currently head of Bristol Arts and Music Service and the director of the Bristol Centre for Music and the Arts.
He is a member of the Royal Society of Musicians and serves on the National Executive Committee of the Musicians’ Union.
Andy has recently delivered workshops and lectures to the annual conferences of the Music Masters and Mistresses Association, the National Association of Music Educators, the Federation of Music Services, Music Learning Live, the Schools Music Association and the International conference on Innovation and Creativity in the Hands of the Young. He is active as a composer having had his music recorded and published as well as broadcast by the BBC. Andy has also worked as an examiner for the Guildhall school of Music and Drama and Trinity College London, is the co-author of the Trinity/Guildhall Drum Kit examination syllabus and is retained as a consultant to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

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