The Steel Pan Academy is committed to increasing access and opportunity to quality steel pan playing, teaching and learning.

All our tutors are experienced steel pan teachers and players and have been working in Coventry and Warwickshire Schools for many years.

The Steel Pan Academy provides regular peripatetic steel pan teaching on a weekly basis as well as one day and half day steel pan workshops for schools and community groups.

For those schools that already have a set of steel pans we will be happy to provide a steel pan tutor to suit your needs. For those schools who do not have their own pans we will be delighted to bring our own pans to provide a one day workshop (link to workshops) and work with you to access funding to put steel pans in your school and encourage more of our young people to enjoy making music as part of a steel band.

Steel pans are one of the most accessible instruments to learn and are inclusive to all. We are happy to teach and support all abilities and are happy to include special needs pupils in our groups. Steel pans not only promote good musical skills but also good social skills as part of the essence of playing pan is about working together as a group. In all our schools we find our pupils develop in social and thinking skills as well as musical.

Depending on number of pans, peripatetic pan teaching is usually in groups of 5 for 30 minutes. Some primary schools opt for having groups lasting 20 minutes in order to keep charges to parents as low as possible.

Peripatetic steel pan charges are £30 for the first hour and £25 per consecutive hour. We teach 36 weeks of the year allowing a few make up weeks. For more information on peripatetic pan teaching please read School leaflet (link) and our sample contract to schools.(link)

If you would like to book a steel pan workshop and/or introduce and develop steel pan tuition in your school then please do not hesitate to contact Diana on: 07765 811042