Our Music Teaching

If you are looking for quality music lessons on a brass or woodwind instrument in Ryedale then make sure you get in touch with Ryedale School of Music toady. 

Robert & Laura are a husband and wife team and will be delighted  to offer you friendly, professional advice on learning a musical instrument. 

We started the music teaching business in 1993 and operate independently in schools within the Ryedale area as well as our teaching studio in Kirkbtmoorside.

Robert Coates ( Owner of The Ryedale School of Music)  Robert was eight years old when he started to play cornet with Swinton band. He played cornet for Rowntree Chocolate Works band and Kirkbymoorside town band before joining the army as a musician in 1985. His first posting was a two year military musicianship course at the AJSM (Army Junior School of Music, Bovington. His first military band was the regimental band of the 1st Queens Lancashire Regiment, Paderborn, West Germany. On returning to the UK in 1989, Robert auditioned and was successful in gaining a place in the staff band of The Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers. During his time with the REME band he spent one year full-time and two years part-time studying brass and woodwind at The Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall. During his British army career, Robert has performed at many prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, resident band at Buckingham Palace, The Royal Tournament, Berlin and Edinburgh Tattoo. He has appeared on a television as a feature performing on Aida trumpet with the English Chamber Orchestra at ‘Symphony for the Spire’ at Salisbury Cathedral. When Robert left the army in 1994 he set up his own private teaching business, offering tuition in clients own homes. In addition to this he was spending his daytimes working as a peripatetic music teacher in primary and secondary schools in North Yorkshire. In 1996 Roberts teaching service was offered the contract to provide the brass and woodwind instrumental tuition at Ryedale School. In 2005, Robert and his wife Laura opened the Minim Music shop in Kirkbymoorside which has recently re-located to the Ryedale School of Music, The Old School, Tinley Garth, Kirkbymoorside.	Robert Coates   Owner - Ryedale School of Music

Laura Coates  (School & Shop Manager) Laura is the co-owner of the Ryedale School of Music and Minim Music with her husband, Robert. Laura works as the administrator of the school and manager of the Minim Music shop. Laura has a background in finance and admin with the civil service and she has recently finished an eight year term as a school governor for the Nawton & Rosedale Schools Federation. In her spare time she is a member of Moors Gateway Rotary, based in Kirkbymoorside.

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So if you are looking for instrumental music lessons in Ryedale then make sure you get in touch with us today. We are always on hand to help and would love to hear from you.

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