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Martin Slidel
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A short autobiography Organ; piano; recorder; violin.
As an undergraduate Martin worked as a pianist for children’s eurythmy classes, and completed ten years experience as a private tutor organising seasonal concerts for students of a wide age range. He learnt recorder and violin at school, and continued to study jazz and classical organ throughout his teens and early 20s. He was an area winner for Yamaha Festival and played a classical programme for the regional finals at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol.
Bartok; Cage; Curran; Glass; Satie; gamelan.
Martin is currently Head of Music at a West London prep school. He studied Music with Visual Practice at the University of Brighton and during this time experimented with studio composition in conjunction with tape/slide – work was selected for Performance Platform at the Sallis Benney Theatre. He was also a member of a performance and video group for the International Festival of Live Art in Brighton and a member of spnm since graduation in 1997, and now a Founder Member of Sound and Music (London). He tutored keyboard before formally training on PGCE at Oxford Brookes (1999) under Dr Sarah Maidlow and Nigel Timms. He moved to London to work in music retail as a classical specialist and then for a period as a video librarian at MTV Europe. In 2001, he attended a primary retrainer course and has since gained a Master’s in visual art education from the University of London (2009). He previously worked in the state sector for seven years, over which time he organised several expressive arts projects for primary school-children of all ages and abilities; liaised with various artists and performers; and was a founder committee member for cultural evenings.