Thanks for visiting this blog – my little space for talking about all things musical around Skipton and beyond, including the classes, concerts, fundraisers etc that I do as part of my everyday work. Here I also put up a weekly list of available slots for the coming week, so that people can make last minute bookings of (at the… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Students Perform in Online Ensembles
Modern technology is truly amazing! It allows me to teach live 1-2-1 lessons with students who are anywhere at all in the world, from Skipton to Sterling, Shanghai to San Francisco! Lessons over Zoom are so similar to sitting in a room with a student that I sometimes forget that we’re actually hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. Nearly… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lesson Availability w/c 22nd June
Hi everyone. It’s been a brilliant and busy weekend – thanks to everyone who participated in our Concert for MSF, and everyone who donated to the charity. We ended up making £-.– in the end!! Absolutely brilliant!! If you missed the live concert you can ‘watch again’ here: This week my schedule is nearly full, but there are one or… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lessons Slots: w/c 15th June 2020
Live Streamed Concert for MSF As this week begins, my students, friends, associates and their families are getting geared up towards the concert we have planned for Saturday! It’ll be broadcast live to YouTube, and you can watch it by visiting my YouTube channel: A link to the live feed will also be viewable on my Facebook page, where you… Read more »
… and Zoom into your music lesson instead! With Covid-19 still spreading in our region, my message for today’s update REALLY couldn’t be clearer: For the sake of everyone’s health and well-being, let’s continue to stay at home whenever possible. Lessons with me will continue exclusively online via Zoom for the time being – I will only change this policy… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on w/c 1st June 2020 : FULLY BOOKED
Hi everyone. Hope you’re all having a great week and enjoying the fantastic weather that we’re enjoying across the UK at the moment. It does seem to me like too much of a coincidence that since air and road traffic has been drastically reduced, we seem to have much better weather… perhaps it’s something to do with cleaner air? Or,… Read more »
As usual, there’s lots going on this week. One of the most exciting is that I’ve launched our forthcoming concert: it’ll be on Saturday 20th June from 1pm, and will take place online. Participants will join a Zoom call that will then be broadcast live on YouTube and Facebook. And, the whole event will be in aid of an excellent… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lesson Availability w/c 18th May
As this Covid lockdown goes on, the weeks just seem to pass by! I can hardly believe that it’s been 8 weeks now since my son, Robin, went to school. He’s certainly missing the social aspects of school life, if not some of the lessons! And I’m sure that we adults are also missing lots of things about our ‘normal’… Read more »
Damian OxboroughComments Off on Lesson Availability w/c 11th May
Over the weekend I published a newsletter to my students and parents to highlight the need for a change in the way lessons are conducted for a little while. As most of you know, I’ve been teaching exclusively online for the past 6 weeks, and this is working really well for those students who are taking Zoom lessons and singing… Read more »
Hi students / parents. It’s now been six weeks since lockdown began in the UK, and all my face-to-face lessons were put on hold. And, I’ve got to say that I’ve really missed the routine interactions I had with my students before all this Covid thing kicked off – exchanging pleasantries and updates about what we’d each done over the… Read more »
