Ritchie Howard Email & Phone Number

Secondary Curriculum Co-ordinator

WO1 D. Ritchie HowardD. Ritchie Howard G.D.B.M. (S.C.o.T) P.G.C.E. R.A.(V)Ritchie Howard was born in Glossop in 1967. He started to learn the clarinet at the age of 14 and began his playing career with the Adamson Military Band. He attended University College Salford, where he studied performance and conducting under Roy Newsome, Elgar Howarth and Major Peter Parkes. He gained his Graduate Diploma in 1988. He then attended Bretton Hall College where he gained his Post Graduate Certificate in Education. In 1989 He joined Tameside Education Authority as a music teacher and was for 5 years Head of Expressive Arts at Hattersley High School. He was then promoted to Head of Music at Hartshead High School in Ashton – Under - Lyne. Ritchie is currently the Secondary Music Curriculum Leader for Tameside Music Service. In 1986, he began conducting community wind and brass bands and in 1993 enlisted into the Lancashire Artillery Volunteers Band as a clarinet and saxophone player. He was appointed Bandmaster of the Lancashire Artillery Volunteers Band in January 1997. He has conducted various bands on concert tours abroad including France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Russia and Kuwait amongst others. In 1998, he was appointed Director of Music for the Keele University Concert Band. Ritchie is currently the Bandmaster with The Yorkshire Volunteers Band and Musical Director with the Radcliffe Brass Band.

Head Of Music

Head of Expressive Arts

Pgce, Secondary Education

Graduate Diploma In And Musicianship, Music - Performance - Conducting

A Levels

Music - Geography - Sociology Grade C and above

"O" Levels

9 "O" levels Inc English and Maths Grade C and above

Primary Education