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Bruce Cole
Bruce Cole is Fellow in Community Music at the University of York, where he is responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (including the United Kingdom’s first M.A. in Community Music) and developing outreach work with the education departments of orchestras and disability arts and prison education programmes. He has also been external examiner and consultant in community music to institutions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan and Africa. Before joining the University of York in 1986, he founded and ran the Lewisham Academy of Music, a resource centre for young people in southeast London. A composer who has worked in the music industry, concert hall, theatre and film, he has held two residencies in London schools and authored and co-authored six books on school music. He is also Chief Examiner in Music and Music Technology to the London examinations board Edexcel.