Head of Piano
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Westminster School
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- September 2024
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- £46.83 per hour
- Apply by:
- 14 June 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a Head of Piano to oversee the development of all pianists in the school.
The successful applicant will be an outstanding musician and educator, and an inspirational communicator with a willingness to be part of a friendly and supportive team. They will be flexible in their approach, with the ability to work across a variety of musical styles, both with those pupils who are exceptionally talented and with those who are less advanced.
As well as overseeing the administration of the Piano Department, the Head of Piano will have the opportunity, where possible, to coach chamber music. There may be the opportunity to undertake some individual tuition of pupils in piano, the fees for this work being paid directly to the teacher by the pupils’ parent(s).
They should provide pianists with the opportunity to perform at an early stage in their development and take a leading role in encouraging meaningful progress throughout a pupil’s time at the school. This should apply in equal measure both to those pupils who are exceptionally talented and to those who are less advanced.
Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the school has a special atmosphere.
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The closing date for applications is midday on 14 June 2024.
Interviews will take place on Friday 21 June 2024.
We are an equal opportunities employer. The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).
About Westminster School
Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.
While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.
The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’
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