Meet the Team
Jean Baptiste is an amazing guitarist and has really enjoyed teaching at most of our partner schools in the last two years. He has two regular jobs in our partner schools and an active career as a performer, but has flourished as a curriculum music teacher. He can also teach in French, being a fluent french speaker.
We are immensely proud of all our recruits - we’d like to introduce you to some of our talented bunch of new music teachers
Kai Kwasi Thorne has been teaching and working with us for 18 months and has gone from strength to strength as a practitioner. Children naturally follow his lead and warm to him and he has a really great relatioship with every child he teaches. He is also an accomplisehd performgin musician and has recently been working with Joy Crookes on her new album. A highlight for the team was his performance at Glastonbury with her this year - we were so proud!
He says ‘Music is such an important part of every child’s experience - but unfortunately it is often underfunded and overlooked in primary schools. I was very lucky to spend a lot of time around musicians and listening to music growing up. since i’ve starting teaching I've realised this isn't the norm so it's really rewarding seeing the impact that my lessons have on the children i work with.’
Musicalives was established in 2022 by Coren Peacock. Coren has worked as a Music Specialist in many different primary schools in North and East London for nearly 25 years. She is passionate about imparting knowledge and wisdom to the next generation of music teachers - to keep music live and alive in schools. There is a discernible shortage of teachers who are confident enough to teach music and Musicalives came about when Coren decided to do something about this. In recruiting more musicians to teach as Primary Music Specialists, Coren aims to bring more music in to schools and make it easier for schools to recruit from a wider range of music teachers. The aim is ultimately to get the teachers that work for Musicalives Qualified Teacher Status. Ensuring high quality training for the music teachers of the future whilst also providing a pathway to gain QTS is what we are working very hard towards achieving.
