Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at
Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in
music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with
many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed
her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in
private practice, working with groups large and small and in
one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM
Music Medals
initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students
taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All
together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching
experience has
led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by
Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David
have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and
Singapore. David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University,
after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM
and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In
the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5,
and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is
co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series,
Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won
the MIA award for Best Educational Publication.
He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and
arranger.
In 2017 Kathy and David Blackwell received two awards: from ESTA UK
in recognition of their exceptional services to string teaching,
and from the Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership for
significant contribution to music education in Oxfordshire and
beyond.
OUP has given a tremendous boost to its popular Fiddle Time series
with a radical overhaul of the first book, Fiddle Time Starters . .
. From the beginning, the book encourages a relaxed physical and
mental attitude to playing and reading music.
*Vivienne Heller, ESTA Arco Spring 2013*
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