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With over a decade of experience in universities, hubs, schools and with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Meadows’ students have gone onto great things. Dozens are now studying or have graduated from the UK’s leading music conservatoires, and many have gone on to carve their professional careers; winning JazzFM Awards, signing with major labels and building a management team around their work.

Meadows teaches all ages and abilities, and you can book online lessons with him on this page. He can help with saxophone, flute, clarinet, music theory, composition and just about any style of improvisation. He’s a jazz specialist, but as a collaborative musician who runs the award-winning Engines Orchestra is adept at working in a range of styles from classical, to pop, hip-hop and electronic music.

If you’re new to working with Phil, it’s suggested that you book a one-off lesson to make sure that he’s the right teacher for you. The relationship between the teacher and student is critical to musical development!

National Youth Jazz Orchestra.

Until recently Meadows has been a core member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra’s educational team since 2012, when he took over their improvisational ensemble entitled NYJO London. Since then NYJO London has grown, split into three ensembles and influenced the development of NYJO’s new Jazz Exchange project. Meadows has developed NYJO London’s hugely successful curriculum which sees all students work together to develop key aural skills; critical listening, fundamental harmonic knowledge, concepts of improvisation, core ensemble skills, the ability to arrange repertoire, develop a set of canonic repertoire and direct and present performances.

With a 100% success rate for those hoping to progress to Conservatoire or HE music education, under the direction of Meadows; NYJO London became one of the UK’s leading places for young, aspiring musicians to hone and develop their skills.

The University of Kent.

Meadows has been a Lecturer in Performance at the University of Kent’s School of Music and Fine art and new, Centre for Music and Audio Technology since 2015. During this time he has convened, delivered and marked modules including:

Second Year: Orchestration & Arranging, Composition Project.

Final Year: Performance, Songwriting and Individual Projects.

He has also taught one-to-one instrumental lessons, in order to prepare students for their final recitals. He has also gained experience as an academic advisor and with marking final recitals; as well as running a number of the Universities musical ensembles. These include:

Jazz Improvisation (aural skills and the understanding of the jazz tradition, Sonority (the study of sound), The Medway Session Band (professional skills for pop musicians), Saxophone Ensemble (chamber music) and Band Forum (open access for all performers to gain feedback).

Guest Workshops & Private Tuition.

Meadows has been invited to lead projects at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, workshops at the Royal College of Music and in large-scale educational projects with the Southbank Sinfonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Jambone Big Band. Every project is bespoke to the needs of the musicians but here are a few areas of expertise:

1. Improvisation for classical musicians. (Approaches to creativity to help general musicianship).

2. Jazz improvisation. (All ages/abilities).

3. Big band or orchestral workshops. (Traditional or progressive).

4. Larger collaborative education projects. (cross genre/platform - music/dance/film/media).

Meadows is also available for one-to-one lessons at his home in London or via Skype. These can be for saxophone, flute, clarinet, composition, orchestration, arranging, improvisation for all instruments and ensemble coaching.