Chris's teaching experience embraces Higher Education, Secondary Education and private tuition.  Between 1993 and 2000, he lectured at Cardiff University in the Department of Music.  He also gave courses in the Department for Continuing Education.  He lectured at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from 1996-2000 and he has tutored on Open University Summer Schools since 1996.  He is currently Assistant Headteacher (with special responsibility for Teaching & Learning) and Head of Performing Arts at a large London secondary school.  In the school’s 2004 Ofsted report, his teaching and vision were described as ‘inspired’.  Chris is an experienced organ, piano and clarinet teacher; and he especially enjoys teaching diploma paperwork.

Chris holds a PGCE in Secondary Music from the Institute of Education of the University of London and two Certificates in the Advanced Professional Practice of Education (with Distinction) from Oxford Brookes University.  He was among the first people to be awarded Chartered London Teacher Status and he is a Fellow  of the College of Teachers.  His submissions for CLTS and FCoT have been published on-line.