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Name: Lord Moser
Occupation: Former Director of the Central Statistical Office and Chairman of the Royal Opera House; Member of the House of Lords (cross bencher) and Paul Hamlyn Foundation Trustee
Role in Musical Futures: Chairman
Areas covered in interview: Background to Musical Futures; placing young people at the centre of music learning and personalising music education

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Name: Lord Adonis
Occupation: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
Role in Musical Futures: Minister in the sponsoring government department with responsibility for music and art across the education and skills sector and education outside the classroom
Areas covered in interview: Why Musical Futures is important

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Name: Valerie Hannon
Occupation: Director - Innovation Unit
Role in Musical Futures: Member of the Steering Group and co-funder of the Teachers’ Resource Pack
Areas covered in interview: Rationale and need for Musical Futures; personalisation of learning in music and other curriculum areas; young people as co-producers and co-creators of their learning; critical success factors and questions still outstanding

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Name: Sophie Jennings and Krishna Thirucheelvan
Occupation: Peripatetic Music Teachers
Role in Musical Futures: Delivering music projects in the classroom alongside the music teacher
Areas covered in interview: The role of a peripatetic music teacher

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Name: Nicola Cleevely
Occupation: Teacher - Monk’s Walk School, Hertfordshire
Role in Musical Futures: Piloted the principles in non-music areas
Areas covered in interview: Applying Musical Futures principles in non-practical subjects; developing programmes of independent learning; empowering young people to set learning objectives, design homework, administer the school rewards system and independent learning and students with behavioural problems

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Name: Phil Bunn
Occupation: Headteacher - Monk’s Walk School, Hertfordshire
Role in Musical Futures: Head of one of the Musical Futures pilot schools in Hertfordshire and line manager to the Head of Music
Areas covered in interview: The implications of Musical Futures; impact on progression; evaluating risk in a pilot; support and resources; achievement and staff morale

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Name: John Witchell
Occupation: Head of Hertfordshire Music Service / Senior Advisor Music-Learning, Training & Research, Standards & School Effectiveness
Role in Musical Futures: Representing one of the three action-research pilot projects and a central figure working with the Institute of Education in the design of the Hertfordshire approach
Areas covered in interview: Fit to Key Stage 3 strategy and Wider Opportunities at Key Stage 2; Ofsted; working with the Youth Service; boys and Musical Futures; Special Needs Education and Musical Futures and working across genres

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Name: Paul Kaiserman
Occupation: Director - Artforms Leeds
Role in Musical Futures: Representing one of the three action-research pilot projects and a key figure in the design of the Leeds approach
Areas covered in interview: Young people as music leaders

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Name: Jo Richardson
Occupation: Musical Futures Projects Coordinator - Artforms Leeds
Role in Musical Futures: Manager of the Leeds pilot
Areas covered in interview: Why schools want to be involved in Musical Futures; working with the National Curriculum; transferable skills and young people as music leaders

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Name: Christina Coker
Occupation: Chief Executive – Youth Music
Role in Musical Futures: Member of the Steering Group
Areas covered in interview: Young people at the centre of music learning; musical genres; the skills of music leaders; professional development; the strengths of Musical Futures; and working in partnership

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Name: Richard Jones
Occupation: National Specialism Coordinator Music and Performing Arts - Specialist Schools & Academies Trust
Role in Musical Futures: Member of the Advisory Group
Areas covered in interview: Personalising music learning; initial teacher training; professional development; impact of Musical Futures on the work of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; legacy of Musical Futures; linking Musical Futures to the Key Stage 3 strategy; transferable skills and models for the delivery of student centred music education

Robert Dufton (6 min)

Name: Robert Dufton
Occupation: Director – Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Role in Musical Futures: Member of the Steering and Advisory Groups
Areas covered in interview: The next stage of the project; learning for the Foundation and applications to other curriculum areas