Sally Cathcart, doctora y Churchill Fellow, cuenta con una dilatada experiencia docente como profesora de piano y de música en el aula. Actualemente es responsable de un pequeño estudio y enseñar a tocar el piano sigue siendo su mayor disfrute. Es cofundadora y directora de The Curious Piano Teachers.
Tras sus viajes por todo el mundo como Winston Churchill Fellow, Sally fundó el Oxford Piano Group como un lugar para que pianistas y profesores colaboraran y compartieran experiencias. En 2013 se doctoró en el Instituto de Educación de la UCL de Londres. Su tesis fue el primer estudio exhaustivo de los profesores de piano del Reino Unido, explorando las prácticas comunes, la experiencia, los valores, las actitudes y la motivación hacia la enseñanza.
Sally está formada en Kodály y fue Directora de Musicianship para The Voices Foundation entre 2013 y 2022. Es tutora principal del Piano Teachers' Course (Reino Unido) y asesora del plan de estudios de piano de la junta examinadora británica ABRSM.
Ha escrito una colección de libros sobre musicalidad para jóvenes pianistas, "Ready to Play", publicada recientemente por Alfred UK. En colaboración con el Dr. Christopher Fisher, Sally trabaja actualmente como coeditora del Oxford Handbook of Piano Pedagogy.
Sally Cathcart, Ph.D. and Churchill Fellow, has many years of teaching experience both as a piano teacher and as a classroom music teacher. She runs a small teaching studio and teaching the piano continues to be her greatest joy. She is co-founder and Director of The Curious Piano Teachers.
After her worldwide travels as a Winston Churchill Fellow, Sally founded the Oxford Piano Group as a place for pianists and teachers to collaborate and share experiences. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Institute of Education, UCL, London in 2013. Her topic was the first comprehensive study of UK piano teachers, exploring common practices, expertise, values, attitudes and motivation to teaching.
Sally is a trained Kodály practitioner and was Director of Musicianship for The Voices Foundation from 2013-2022. She is a Principal Tutor on the Piano Teachers’ Course (UK) and is a piano syllabus consultant for the UK examining board ABRSM.
She has written a series of musicianship books for young pianists, ‘Ready to Play’, which have recently been published by Alfred UK. In collaboration with Dr Christopher Fisher Sally is currently working as co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Piano Pedagogy.
