Jonathan is Managing Director of UCan Play, a not-for-profit sales and consultancy company supporting music education across the United Kingdom. He recently retired from his role as Reader in Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, where, for the past 20 years, he educated over 1000 postgraduate music teachers. Jonathan has chaired the Expert Subject Panel for Music for the Department for Education and also led the implementation of the previous two iterations of National Curriculum for Music across England. Jonathan has worked as an education consultant for the Musicians’ Union, the BBC (including CBeebies and GCSE Bitesize), NYMAZ, the Greater Manchester Music Hub, Steinway & Sons, Roland UK and many other organisations. He is a published author with Routledge, Sage and the Open University Press, having written 17 books, edited many others and also written extensively for academic journals all over the world. He is a regular speaker on issues regarding music education and the arts on national radio, appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row where he debated the Model Music Curriculum with Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister.