Founded in 1991, IMS is a principal provider of music lessons in schools, colleges and universities across Devon and Cornwall. We supply tutors on a range of instruments at an affordable price. Please contact us for further information or to arrange lessons.
Mrs M Osborne
I have been teaching Woodwind for just over 30 years. I am qualified with a BAHons Music, PGCE with Peripatetic specialism and a LTCL. I was employed working full time for Devon Music Service for 12 years when I first qualified. Thereafter, I have delivered tuition through Cornwall Music Service and Trust but have worked in a mainly self-employed setting with private arrangements within schools direct with parents. Also private tuition at home.
I currently work in the Okehampton area and towards Cornwall from there.
Sarah Steed
| I am an experienced woodwind and piano teacher working with students from 4 to 80 in the local schools and my studio in North Devon.
A qualified classroom music teacher who chose early on in my career to concentrate on my first love of instrumental music. I have taught for Surrey Music Service, Hampshire Music Service and spent 10 years in America teaching the band program in a middle school. I have conducted wind bands, a jazz ensemble, flute choir and clarinet choir. Qualifications: |
Richard Miners
Mid Devon Music Ltd launched in 2015 as a way of providing schools and organisations with quality curricular and extra curricular music making in varying formats. Led by Richard Miners a leading music educator at the highest levels for over 25 years in the United Kingdom and Europe. Mid Devon Music aims to deliver quality musical experiences for pupils and communities of all ages, allowing students to develop, discover, enjoy and celebrate music of all types.
Richard Miners has enjoyed a combined career as both a professional musician and as a respected music educator. As a professional trombonist, he has worked alongside some of the leading names in jazz, popular and world music, appearing on commercial albums, broadcasts and playing throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. As an educator he has led several large school music departments, worked as a freelance workshop leader and worked with schools and colleges as an advisor on delivering schemes of work and assessment. He has also worked with the European Union to develop music in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Recently Richard has worked for one of the largest county Music Hubs in the UK, delivering and helping to develop Whole Class Instrumental and Vocal Teaching at Key Stage 1 and 2. His teaching has consistently been classified by leading professionals and inspectors as good and outstanding and due to this he has met and maintained for numerous years the highest level of post threshold teaching standards.
Richard has also been a keynote speaker for various Music Education Hubs, where he has led presentations on Whole Class Ensemble Teaching, Development of Music In Primary Schools, Curriculum Planning and Assessment and on how businesses can work with schools and the community.
As an administrator and producer Richard has worked on providing resources, events and music for large organisations including the BBC, Canary Wharf, BP, Mercedes Benz and the Intercontinental Hotel Group.
Tim Pratt
Cello teacher, based between okehampton and launceston, also maybe possible to visit exeter. 10 years of professional experience orchestral playing in latin america, 3 years of suzuki teacher training…. qualified to level 3, kodaly training. Work with devon music hub and cornwall music service trust, have helped with both devon and cornwall youth orchestras. I run classes from ‘cradle to grave’ through running musianship classes from birth onwards and running adult group cello sessions in the area.
I bring to my classes aspects of suzuki, kodaly, Alexander technique to make classes a holistic experience.
Hesther Somerville ALCM CTABRSM
I have been teaching flute and recorders to children, teenagers, and adults for 30 years, from complete beginners through to grade 8. I hold Grade 8 Distinctions in both Flute and Recorder. I also have the ALCM Performers Diploma which I took on flute. I play locally in the Dartmouth Orchestra, the Wayward Winds ensemble, and for the Red Earth Orchestra, plus my local village Candlelit Carol Service Chamber Orchestra in Staverton once a year, and occasionally for the Dartmouth Choral Society Christmas Concert Orchestra. My primary training is in classical music, but I also enjoy playing whistle, flute and recorders in folk music settings.
Imogen Hovil
| I have played the cello since I was at school, and have a PGCE teaching qualification in languages. I lived in France for most of my adult life where I was a member of the Conservatoire de Musique and played in the orchestra and various ensembles. Since returning to the UK, I have taught mostly beginners individual lessons, privately and in school. I currently work at St Mary’s primary in Axminster and The Woodroffe School in Lyme Regis. |
Claire Hindle
| I studied for my BA Hons music degree at Dartington College of Arts in the 1980’s . I then went on to study flute performance with Sebastian Bell at the Royal College of Music. I then started my career as a freelance musician, playing in many different orchestral ensembles , at home and abroad. I have been teaching for over 35 years , and I worked for Devon County Council in the 1990’s until 2004 , as a peripatetic woodwind teacher in schools all over Devon . In that time I specialised in conducting, and I directed the County Flute Choir . We enjoyed many successful concert tours in France , Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Since 2004 I have successfully built up a private teaching and consultancy service in schools , and in private homes in and around Torbay . I am also a director of the flute choir at Torbay music centre . |
Ruth Molins
I have taught flute for 20 years, my first job was the director of East Devon music centre flute choir, aged 17! Since then, I have taught in schools such as Walter Daw Primary school, Broadclyst primary school, St Peter’s High School and Okehampton Community college. I have run many school flute choirs. I founded and directed the community flute choir Exeter Flutes for 5 years. I currently teach flute and musicianship skills at Exeter School. I have done some coaching for the Devon wind and symphony orchestras. I am currently a performing artist for Live Music Now and am learning new skills in running projects and workshops with children with complex and additional needs, and more training ahead! I also play the piano, and use it to accompany in lessons. I enjoy teaching adults at all levels. I am an active freelance performer and still auditioning for things myself, so I have a vibrant and up-to-date pool of knowledge to draw from to help a student do whatever they want to achieve.
Steve Wiltshire
Touring Soloist with 20 years teaching experience for all ages, school and private tuition. All Saxophones, Clarinets and Flutes plus Recorder.