Teaching
As a jazz educationalist, Gerard was the Head of the Jazz Department at The Royal Academy of Music from 1999 until 2010 and is current Head of the Brass Department at The Jazz Institute,Berlin. He has given guest workshops in European Jazz Conservatories (including Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Copenhagen).
In 2012 he is continuing to write a book addressing the technical requirements of trumpet playing in improvised music.
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“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”
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