011991
Carmen Jones, the Old Vic
Aged seven, after training at the New Harlequin Theatre School and working in radio, television and media advertising, a first professional West End credit alongside Patti Boulaye and Gary Wilmot.
London, United Kingdom
Nimai
Walcott
Educator. Musician. Author. Filmmaker. Creator.
Exploring the power of education, music and storytelling to inspire creativity, challenge perspectives and unlock human potential.
Photograph: Amazing Ade Production
The work
Four disciplines. One question.
How do people learn, and what becomes possible when they do? Teaching, music, writing and film are four ways of asking it.
Recognition
Visiting Music Teacher of the Year, 2023
Presented by Classic FM & ABRSM at the Royal Albert Hall, in recognition of a teacher who works in schools and homes rather than on a stage, and who measures success by what a student can do after they leave the room.
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The record
Experience and achievements
Twenty-five years of teaching, an academy, a national award and a body of music. The work speaks for itself.
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Teaching since 2000
Piano first, then seven instruments plus music theory, LAMDA and chess, from complete beginners to diploma level, in schools, colleges, youth organisations, homes and online.
032005
Signed to Compound Entertainment (Def Jam Records)
A recording contract with the US label at the start of his career as an artist.
042006
Graduates in biochemistry and microbiology
Scientific training that still shapes how he approaches learning and teaching.
052011
Recording artist
Albums Memoirs of Time (2020) and Marching To The Spotlight (2026), and singles released under his own name since 2011.
062012
Director, London MADA
Took over the academy his father founded and rebuilt it from the ground up, with a full rebrand: music, speech and drama, chess and performance, working with families and schools across London.
072023
Classic FM & ABRSM Visiting Music Teacher of the Year
National award presented at the Royal Albert Hall, recognising teaching in schools and homes.
Whether the subject is a scale, a sentence, a scene or a system, the question underneath is the same. How do people learn, and what becomes possible when they do? Everything here is an answer, worked out in practice.