Chris Murphy Music Tuition

My first paid gig in a while. I needed to blow those cobwebs away and throw caution to the wind.

Although I am now open for face-to-face tuition again, I am still implementing Covid-safe practices in accordance with the advice of my professional association the ISM and I will only offer face-to-face lessons to those who have received both Covid jabs. I am also now restricting face-to-face tu...

I am pleased to be able to announce that, in accordance with Government Covid regulations, I will be resuming face-to-face tuition from May 10th. Due to the break in tuition ending on 9th May, this will be the earliest opportunity to do this.

Some music teachers have found the transition to online tuition difficult. This one really went that extra mile.

Throughout the Covid pandemic I have been guided by the advice of my professional association, the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and having carried out the risk assessment they have advocated, I have made the decision not to resume face-to-face tuition at the present time.. On July 13th the ...

I no longer offer any face-to-face tuition but continue to teach online via: Face Time/WhatsApp/Zoom/Skype/Messenger/Microsoft Meeting etc. I have been doing online tuition for several years now and have taught students as far away as India. I am therefore already well versed in the technicalitie...

Since I posted my Covid-19 contingency plans only a few days ago things have moved on. In view of the Governments latest advice I feel it is now only a matter of time before the entire country is places in lockdown and it will no longer be possible to offer face-to-face tuition. I am therefore ma...

This style of clarinet playing is radically different from the classical approach with its use of a pronounced vibrato and an 'unfocused' tone. It owes much to the legacy of Sidney Bechet whose style of playing was emulated by so many other players in this genre. It is sometimes very difficult to...

Conducting the junior band at Husavik Music School, Iceland in 1987. Almost all the kids in this photo are wearing track suits as, after the rehearsal, they would clip on their ski's to ski home through the very deep snow. When I first arrived it snowed heavily 24/7 for eight weeks!