All one-to-one music teaching of young students should be dropped by classical academies and conservatoires, according to the virtuoso cellist and campaigner Julian Lloyd Webber. He made his comments in reaction to news that a senior professor at the internationally renowned Royal College of Music in London has been suspended after allegations of misconduct.
“There is no need for one-to-one tuition to continue,” said Lloyd Webber, who studied at the college in Kensington as a boy, following in the footsteps of his older brother Andrew and their father, the composer William Lloyd Webber, who was a professor there for many years. “I personally think groups of three are the best size now for any lesson. It would mean there was much more openness and accountability.”
