Musical Detective – Pat Gane
Sunday 21 April 2024, 11am
Music Suite, Somerhill
Tonbridge, TN11 0NJ
Coffee Concert: Musical Detective with Pat Gane (piano)
‘Cherchez la femme!’
In her inimitable style, Pat Gane (TMC Chair) returns to enlighten us with her insights into the role of women composers for piano – a chance to explore a female perspective in musical style. Pat’s informative, relaxed and entertaining presentations hit the spot for aficionados and those just wanting to learn more about music.
Standard ticket £15 | Students & Under 18s £5
Ticket price includes coffee and biscuits after the concert
About Pat Gane
Pat’s career has encompassed professional performance (piano and viola) and a specialism in secondary music education, instrumental teaching and learning. For many years she was a senior lecturer in Music Education at Middlesex University and a major contributor to Ofsted Inspection programmes of Post Graduate University teacher training and Instrumental Music Services in the UK and abroad. She led a team developing post-graduate music provision at University Pertanian, Malaysia.
Director of Music at Benenden School, Kent from 1997-2000, her publications include Making Music, a series of projects for groups of young players (Oxford University Press). She became a Trustee and Chair of TMC in July 2018 and in addition runs an annual music festival Les Balades Musicales in southern France, inspired by a wish to enrich the experience of talented young European musicians.
