Department Staff

David Golby

Dr David J Golby MA MPhil DPhil (Oxon) PGCE MIfL

Director of Music
Programme Leader: Media, Film & Music

David spent a period of ten years studying and teaching music at Oxford University, completing his doctorate in 1999 with a thesis concerned with aspects of music education. He has continued his research as Research Associate of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, contributing nearly 150 articles; as author of the award-winning Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain, published by Ashgate in 2004 ; and as a regular contributor to a number of prominent early music and music education journals. He is currently collaborating with his wife Alison on the development of a new method for teaching and analysing music at AL/IB and undergraduate levels, encompassing a wide range of musical styles and genres.

In addition to musicology, writing and his work at The Henley College, David also performs and records widely as a freelance violinist, violist, leader and soloist and has collaborated with numerous high-profile artists including Nigel Kennedy; Priya Mitchell; Freddie Jones; Robert Hardy; Kara Wilson; Sir Roger Norrington; Ian Brown; Natalie Clein; Jane Glover; Sian Edwards; La La from the Teletubbies; film composer Nick Hooper; Grammy Award winning producer Nicholas Parker; the poet Duncan Forbes; and Stephen Fry. He was taught violin by Sue Lynn, a former pupil of Yehudi Menuhin, and viola by Ivo Jan van der Werff, formerly of the Medici Quartet. He is MD for Theatre 14167, which has appeared to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe, and College productions such as Cabaret, We Will Rock You and Tommy, and his string quartet Divertimento has worked extensively around the country giving recitals and staging educational workshops. David also appeared as an extra in the Oscar-winning François Girard film The Red Violin and has contributed to the BBC TV series The Restaurant. He is an experienced festival adjudicator and A Level examiner, a lead reviewer for music within the External Quality Review scheme for colleges in the South of England, and a member of the National Association of Music Educators and Institute for Learning. He lives in Caversham Heights, Reading, with wife Alison (see below), and twins Ella and Leo. David’s musical tastes range from AC/DC to Ali Farka Touré, Beethoven to Björk, and he is currently learning to play the electric guitar in imitation of Angus Young.

Alison Golby

Alison Golby BMus (Hons) (Manchester)
PGCE (Cantab)

Associate Lecturer

DL: 01491 634015
agol@henleycol.ac.uk

Alison, a clarinettist, saxophonist, singer and pianist, studied music at the universities of Manchester (including composition with James MacMillan) and Cambridge, and at The Royal Northern College of Music. She is enormously experienced as a music teacher and arts co-ordinator, having been Director of Music and Head of Faculty (Creative & Performing Arts and PE) at previous institutions. She has been actively involved with a variety of successful arts projects and composition workshops, particularly in the Reading area, and has extensive experience as a co-ordinator for Artsmark awards and as a PGCE mentor. She has also undertaken OFSTED inspector training. Alison has worked as a choir trainer and choral director in Berkshire, Surrey and Oxfordshire, and is currently Musical Director of Rivarate in Caversham, Reading. She is also active as a freelance clarinettist, and holds the position of Principal Clarinet in Oxford Chamber Orchestra. In addition to teaching on the music AL and IB courses, Alison will also be directing the all-new Choir and Jazz Band as part of the Enrichment programme.

Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson
Associate Lecturer in Music Technology & Music Technician:

Tel: 01491 634090 Email: tand@henleycol.ac.uk

Tom Anderson is a guitarist and composer whose musical career dates back to the late 70s when he appeared with the Edinburgh Youth Jazz Orchestra at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. With a subsequent move south he went on to perform in several West End theatres, live on BBC radio and TV, and at The Café Royal and The Royal Albert Hall.

As a guitarist he has worked on numerous recording sessions and programmed tracks for 'Hands on MIDI' during the 90s. With six years in the theatre industry, recording sessions for South Today and local radio, he is able to pass on his hugely varied and extensive experience of studio engineering, audio editing and mastering to A Level Music Technology students.

Tom is currently composing, arranging and recording a blues album that taps into a diverse range of influences. A jazz vocal album, inspired by the classic Tin Pan Alley period, is also in production.