Dr Thomas Breeze

Overview

Following a BMus and MA at Cardiff University, studying with the world-renowned Bach scholar Professor Peter Williams, I completed my PGCE at Cardiff Met and then spent 10 years in the classroom teaching secondary music. I also taught music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Cardiff University, as well as working for the education programmes at the Open University.

I joined Cardiff Met part time in 2012 and full time in 2015, and now lead the PGCE Secondary Music programme. I was awarded my doctorate in 2023. My other responsibilities include membership of the clinical practice requirements team, who are responsible for translating the Cardiff Partnership’s adopted model of research-informed clinical practice into a framework for student teachers’ school placements.

In 2018 my colleague Emma Thayer and I collaborated to create a podcast, Emma and Tom Talk Teaching, which has been downloaded over 85,000 times worldwide and interviewed nearly 100 guests. We also disseminate the highest-quality student teacher research from the Cardiff Partnership for Initial Teacher Education through our bilingual Research Bites strand.

As a musician I specialise in keyboard accompaniment and historically-informed performance.

Research Publications

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