We have a great team of musicians working in the music department:

Director of Music

Mr Steve Hill – BMus (Hons) Music, Royal Holloway; MA Education Leadership & Management; PGCE (Music); CertGSMD Piano Recital, ALCM

Teachers of Music

Miss Christina Boyle – BA (Hons) York; PGCE (Music with SpIT) RNCM, MMU

Visiting Music Staff

Mr Nick Bentley – BA (Hons) Jazz Studies – Trumpet, LCM; MA Music Composition LCM

Mrs Zrinka Bottrill (piano and theory) – BA Novi Sad (Serbia); PgD RAM, London

Mr Sam Jesson (drums and percussion) – BMus (Hons) Jazz, Birmingham Conservatoire

Mr Jay Jenkinson (strings) – BMus (Hons), Trinity Laban

Mr Darren McCarthy (guitar) – BMus, Leeds College of Music; MMus, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Mr Mike O’Neill (jazz piano)

Ms Elizabeth Ryder (voice) –

Mr John Slack (clarinet and saxophone) –

Mr Balint Szekely (violin and viola) – BMus, PGDip Adv Solo Perf, RCM

Mr Taylor MacLennan (flute) –