Damian OxboroughComments Off on Students Perform in Online Ensembles
Modern technology is truly amazing! It allows me to teach live 1-2-1 lessons with students who are anywhere at all in the world, from Skipton to Sterling, Shanghai to San Francisco! Lessons over Zoom are so similar to sitting in a room with a student that I sometimes forget that we’re actually hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Nearly… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Live Concert for Médecins Sans Frontières
Next Saturday (20th June) at 1pm, my friends, family and students will be putting on a live concert that will be broadcast directly to YouTube. It’s all in aid of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) – an international charity that’s currently on the front line against Covid-19 all over the world. You can watch live by going to my… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on w/c 1st June 2020 : FULLY BOOKED
Hi everyone. Hope you’re all having a great week and enjoying the fantastic weather that we’re enjoying across the UK at the moment. It does seem to me like too much of a coincidence that since air and road traffic has been drastically reduced, we seem to have much better weather… perhaps it’s something to do with cleaner air? Or,… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lesson Availability w/c 18th May
As this Covid lockdown goes on, the weeks just seem to pass by! I can hardly believe that it’s been 8 weeks now since my son, Robin, went to school. He’s certainly missing the social aspects of school life, if not some of the lessons! And I’m sure that we adults are also missing lots of things about our ‘normal’… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lesson Availability w/c 11th May
Over the weekend I published a newsletter to my students and parents to highlight the need for a change in the way lessons are conducted for a little while. As most of you know, I’ve been teaching exclusively online for the past 6 weeks, and this is working really well for those students who are taking Zoom lessons and singing… Read more »
Hi everyone. Hope you’re all doing well and managing okay. I think the strangest thing about this whole Covid-19 lockdown is how ‘normal’ everything feels on a day-to-day basis. Every time I glance at the news it’s just a stream of Corona Virus related tragedy: deaths, shortages of food and medical equipment etc etc. And, yet, for most of us… Read more »
