Marek Maryiak  BA  MSc  PGCE  Dip MusTh  ALCM

Kodály Musicianship Course Leader

Marek Maryniak graduated from Birmingham University in Music and Philosophy (1977).  He completed his PGCE (1982) at Lancaster University where he was awarded the Eleanor Peel Trust Award, and subsequently took a Master’s degree in Education at Southern Connecticut State University, USA, where he won an E. R. Newman Internship.

Between 1988 and 1996 he worked as a music teacher and music therapist in a wide range of London schools, and at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London. He also pursued a special interest in composition under the guidance of Antonin Tucapsky.

In 1998 he graduated with distinction in Music Pedagogy from the Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music, Kecskemét, Hungary, and until 2003 taught Musicianship at the Kodály Music School, Kecskemét. He currently teaches music in three West London schools.  He works with young musicians in the junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he co-directs the Junior Choir and teaches on the ‘Music Awareness Programme’ (ages 11-18) as well as deputising regularly in the Kodály Musicianship Training programme (ages 4-11).

Marek has trained music teachers and conducted Kodály workshops in Dublin, Warsaw, Zamosc, Cieszyn, Bialystok, Budapest, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London, and has given a number of vocal warm-up workshops with the London Orpheus Choir.

He composes for children (musical tales and songs) and is also undertaking post-graduate work in ‘Research Development and Composition for Choral and Musicianship Training’ at the London College of Music and Media.