Music Technology Teacher CPD

Classroom to Career - Exploring the challenges and triumphs of providing industry informed music technology and production education

We proudly invite teachers and education providers to a very special CPD event focusing on exploring the challenges of delivering industry informed music technology and production education. With particular interest in the educator's experience, we invite presentations from our delegates, and the day is designed to offer plenty of opportunity for discussion and knowledge sharing. The day includes practical workshops on mixing and mastering, with a particular focus on providing resources and insights valuable to educators at all levels of experience.

Schedule

Date: Tuesday 2 July
Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Location: The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH

Time	Activity
09:30	Welcome
09:40	Understanding Partnerships between the Popular Music Industry and Higher Education
10:10	Knowledge transfer presentations - themes to be announced
11:00	Break
11:30	Discussion groups
12:45	Networking Lunch with optional tours
13:45	Workshop 1
14:45	Workshop 2
15:45	Summary
16:00	Close

Invitation

This event offers an opportunity to learn more about how teachers and music production educators have been approaching and navigating the challenges of working in industry informed ways. In particular, to offer a platform for sharing insights and solutions that could be of particular value to the rest of the community.

We are inviting you to share your experience for 10 minutes on any of the following themes:

Working with industry directly
Working with education directly
Challenges and triumphs of industry informed music production education
Preparing music for distribution/distributing work
Understanding industry practices
Teaching mixing and/or mastering
Balancing concerns - academic/exam/industry/career/learner priorities

Please send your preferred theme and a brief description of your experience to Eddie Dobson by June 1st, to ensure we have a balance of topics.

Speakers:

Chris Damms is a music industry professional and composition tutor at the University of Huddersfield. He is currently working on his masters, researching partnership experiences between higher education providers and popular music industry partners.