We live in difficult times for music education. Every news report, every social media post, every new statistic, appears to confirm that music teaching in schools is under rapid and dramatic decline. Caught in a perfect storm of desperate financial times and an educational climate that seems to care only about the ‘core’ subjects, music and the other creative disciplines have become easy targets. We read about ever-increasing numbers of schools removing music altogether from their curriculums, not offering the subject at examination level, or offering bizarre and rather tragic ‘solutions’ such as taster days. Entry for GCSE and A-level music is in decline; it is not yet in freefall, but perhaps soon will be.
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