Jane Cutler
Jane is the musical founder of DaCapo Music. She set up the organisation in partnership with Michelle Groves, with the aim of training musicians to be effective teachers and supporting class teachers in the provision of music in schools.
They started by opening the DaCapo Family Music Centre and have now been researching and testing the DaCapo programme with children for over twenty years, exploring the best methods, approaches and resources to make for an effective music education. DaCapo now receives extensive recognition for the high level of quality and commitment that it brings to the world of music education.
Jane graduated from Trinity College of Music where she trained as a cellist. She began her teaching career in West Sussex, working as a peripatetic cello teacher and developed an interest in music education that led her to explore other opportunities. In 1986 she began to work within the famous Tower Hamlets Strings Project, run by Sheila Nelson, and here she came into contact with both the Kodaly and the Dalcroze method and also had the opportunity to work alongside some of the most inspirational teachers of the time. She studied the Kodaly method for three years at the Kodaly Centre of London (David Vinden).
Jane has also been a teacher and lecturer at Trinity College of Music, St Albans High School for Girls; and a private teacher of up to 20 students a week; she has run INSET (both Instrumental and Kodaly based) for Berkshire Young Musician’s Trust, West Sussex Music Service, Waltham Forest, Argyll LEA and many more and was also the Eurhythmics tutor for the National Children's Orchestra for many years.
Jane plays with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in St Albans. She is married to Roberto Garcia and they have three children.
