Meet our CME Team
CME Course Director/Mentor
Dr Lilian Simones
Lilian has been a pianist and piano teacher for most of her life. Her passion for music teaching led her to pursue research in music teaching and music education, resulting in a number of publications in peer-reviewed academic journals. Currently she is a lecturer and staff tutor in music at the open university, UK. She has also written the only book available in the market to support CME learners in their learning journey, which can be found here. Her research is focused on instrumental music teaching and learning, specifically on optimisation of communication between teachers and students and development of creativity in this music teaching and learning setting.
Internal Quality Assurer (IQA)
Elizabeth Rozier
Passionate about music and it’s place in education, Liz Rozier is an experienced music lead. since receiving her degree, she has taught children in the classroom across all key stages and tutored flute and voice students with ABRSM and Trinity successfully. She is now a freelance music education consultant based in the Midlands working with schools, universities and music hubs to support colleagues through workshops and CPD.
Mentor
Dr Chrysi Kyratsou
Chrysi is an anthropologist focused on music, a music educator, and classically trained pianist with a background on free improvisation. She taught Anthropology of creative practices and music in Higher Education settings and collaborated with NGOs providing music lessons to refugees. Her research includes working with musicians and music teachers in diverse settings. She is passionate about exploring the potentials for inclusion that emerge through musical engagements and how they can be maximised.
Assessor
Vicki Brown
Vicki is course director for the Trinity CME Level 4 course for the consortium of Music Hubs in the East Midlands region of England. From 2014-2020 she was lead assessor for the consortium’s CME course ensuring consistency of marking and mentoring across the six regions. She has taught piano throughout her professional to pupils of all ages from 4-94. Since 2010 she has been the music curriculum consultant for Derbyshire Music Hub and prior to this was a secondary school music teacher for 25 years.
Mentor
Jacopo Colombi
Jacopo is a community musician and piano teacher who dedicated his career to helping visually-impaired individuals and children learn to play the piano. Having completed the Trinity CME Course at Enact Music, he brings a unique perspective to his work as a CME Mentor. He is passionate about inclusion in music education. He actively participates in a jazz band and in a brass band, playing the trumpet and cornet.
Assessor/Mentor
Michael Gallagher
Trained as classical pianist and teacher, Michael holds a degree in Music in addition to Diploma in Piano Performance and Post Grad Certificates. he taught in a number of Public and Private schools as a classroom teacher and a peripatetic tutor. Michael also teaches GCSE/A-Level (CCEA, AQA and Edexcel) and Piano theory Grades 1-8. His academic interests include the understanding, interpretation and performance of popular music and the use of the methodology for its analysis.
Mentor
Dr Domenico Vicinanza
Music composer, educator, public speaker and researcher in auditory display, Domenico worked with organisations like CERN and NASA, creating music from scientific data. He is an Associate Professor at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He has been involved in the application of computing technologies for science and the arts since the late 1990s, managing the ASTRA (Ancient instrument Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project for the reconstruction of musical instruments by means of computer models using the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI.eu).
He has been composer in residence at the University of Exeter, has written music for the European Youth Orchestra, and received commissions from CERN in Geneva for public concerts and permanent exhibitions. He holds a research permit from the US National Park Service to write chamber music from infrasonic vibrations at Yellowstone, in the US.
His research interests include technology for inclusivity and support to disabilities in the arts, data sonification and auditory display, analogue and digital electronics, audio recording and studio techniques, sound synthesis, acoustics and psychoacoustics.