David Price, Musical Futures UK

David is a highly experienced public speaker, project manager, strategic adviser and education consultant. After a 15 year stint in the music industry, he began to work in education, lecturing in adult, further, and higher education. In 1994 he helped establish Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, where he was Director of Learning for 7 years. Since then, he has led national projects in arts and education in the UK, and advised companies, third-sector organisations and government departments internationally. He was instrumental in developing the Musical Futures project in the UK, an exciting innovation which has produced a substantial increase in the uptake of music by students in participating schools. This project is one of the subjects David referred to in his presentation to Bachelor of Popular Music students, Education students and a range of Griffith staff members when he delivered a Twilight Series lecture on the Gold Coast Campus on October 7, 2008