With a teaching career spanning almost twenty years, Andrew Williams is an established educator with extensive experience in the UK’s specialist music education sector. Alongside his role at the Purcell School, Andrew is Head of Aural and Musicianship at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, a position that he has held since 2017. From 2010 to 2016 Andrew was also a member of the academic faculty at the junior department of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he taught Musicianship, GCSE and A Level Music courses. As a classroom teacher, Andrew has worked at schools in both the state and independent sectors. Before joining the Purcell School in 2014 he was Director of Music at Nonsuch High School for Girls, a high-performing grammar school in Surrey. Andrew has a particular interest in helping young musicians to develop strong musicianship skills and a deeper awareness of the repertoire they perform and listen to; he has devised programmes and teaching resources for use in a range of educational contexts and delivered training events and courses for music teachers across the country.