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Sally studied for a Music Degree at Royal Holloway College, London University, and then took a joint Music and Mathematics PGCE course at the London Institute. Her first post was Head of Music at Burnham Grammar School in 1984. In 1986, she became an Advisory Teacher for Buckinghamshire and wrote the book Sound Activities designed to encourage and facilitate non-specialists teaching music activities in Primary classrooms.

She was appointed Director of Music at Dame Alice Owen's School, Hertfordshire, in 1990, where she built up the extra-curricular music to include three orchestras, two choirs and two concert bands. Lower school classes were invited to give a demonstration composition lesson in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and her symphony orchestra performed on the South Bank in the finals for the National Festival of Music for Youth.

Sally has lectured on PGCE and B.Mus courses at Middlesex University and has particularly enjoyed tutoring PGCE students in their school placements. After having children, she returned to teaching Music and Maths at Burnham Grammar School, where she became Joint Assistant Head of Mathematics in 2004. She is now Lead Primary Teacher for Wycombe High School, working on outreach to enrich teaching and learning mathematics in the Partner Primary Schools. She also conducts the Junior and Senior Orchestras at Wycombe Music Centre, who performed at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2005 (as she says, laughing, "It was the day before Cantorum did The Creation!").

During her time with Cantorum, Sally has encouraged a wide and demanding repertoire. Concerts include Requiems by Mozart, Fauré and Rutter, the Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, Elgar's The Music Makers and From the Bavarian Highlands, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, Poulenc's Stabat Mater and Gloria, the Bach Magnificat and Haydn's Creation.

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