TEACHING
Tori is Professor in Jazz performance and Jazz composition, visiting lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and also regularly tutors ensembles at the Royal Academy of Music. She has taught and run workshops for jazz programs at most of the major UK Conservatoires and Music Colleges such as the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity Laban College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Bath University, Leeds Conservatoire etc. She regularly teaches on summer schools such as the National Youth Jazz Collective and ‘the Original Jazz Summer School’ in Cardiff alongside the likes of Pete Churchill, Nikki Iles, Huw Warren, Norma Winstone, Jason Yarde and Liam Noble. She has run workshops and masterclasses all over the UK including courses at the Sage Gateshead, Tomorrows Warriors at the Southbank in London and at the Scarborough Jazz Festival.
Over the years Tori has developed her own teaching materials in the form of two teaching books which include supplementary video demonstrations and is currently researching and developing new skills to aid a healthy approach to practice which she hopes to feed back into her Conservatoire teaching and materials. She has also developed the syllabus for the Contemporary Improvisation module at Leeds Conservatoire and the flute syllabus for Newham Borough Council.
Tori’s duo and trio have run a range of workshops. Using the material from past albums they can feature the use of birdsong, rearrangements of jazz standards and experiments with odd times and free approaches as a springboard for teaching improvisational and compositional techniques in an accessible manner to all age groups.