 Whilst
working as a classroom teacher in both primary and secondary
schools, David has also worked as a musician and carnival artist
for more than 17 years, teaching all abilities from nursery age
children to professional musicians.
He was Musical Director of the London School of Samba for 11
years, giving regular open workshops for this highly successful
carnival group. He has worked in London and across the UK at numerous
major venues and events, and for a number of years he co-ordinated
the children’s carnival and music workshops at the WOMAD
Festival. As a carnival musician and artist in schools, he has
co-ordinated large-scale carnival and music projects, working alongside
musicians from Brazil and Cuba (where he lived and worked for 2
years.
He has written chapters on Cuban and Brazilian music for a major
tourist guidebook, has been composer and solo performer for a children’s
theatre piece and has given lectures on Latin Music and the carnival
arts at various colleges and universities. In 1999 he was nominated
as one of the 400 ‘Most Creative Britons’ by a panel
of distinguished artists, administrators and business leaders.
In 2001 he spent time in Brazil studying children’s carnival
returning in 2002 to participate in carnival, parading with 4 different
groups. He is currently teaching children with special needs in
a main stream primary school and co-ordinating Paraíso Mirim
projects at primary schools in Barnet and Haringey, and at Thomas
Tallis and Kidbrooke Schools in Greenwich . |
