Viola Time Starters + CD: A beginner book for viola

About David BlackwellKathy Blackwell

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.