Dan is a PhD candidate in Musicology and a Supervisor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. He studied Music at the University of Manchester and trained in violin at the Royal Northern College of Music and in conducting with Robert Guy.
Dan has over a decade of teaching experience and more than 1,000 hours across private tuition, summer schools, classrooms, instrumental teaching and university supervision. He works as a Conducting Tutor, Chamber Music Coach and Violin and Viola Teacher at Cambridge’s Centre for Music Performance and Hills Road Sixth Form College. He has helped students gain places at Oxford, Cambridge, King’s College London and Leeds Conservatoire, and at Westminster, Brighton College, Ampleforth and Marylebone schools, and supervises undergraduate Music dissertations.
Dan offers bespoke tuition for Oxbridge entrance tests including the HAT, TARA and ELAT, Music essays and composition, school entrance exams, and a wide range of humanities, performing arts and social sciences at GCSE, A-level and IB. He has taught students of all ages, including adults and students with significant SEN.