This is grim. Philip Pickett has been jailed for 11 years for ‘exceptionally serious’ sexual assaults on pupils at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he was a tutor. He’s a wonderful musician, though clearly a dreadful human being, and his collaboration with Richard Thompson, The Bones of All Men, is a favourite of mine.
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retropath2 says
Fuk! I have spent decades enjoying his crumhorns. Hey ho, that’s the Rise Up Like the Sun planned live concert scuppered then……..
Blue Boy says
Unfortunately there is a whole slew of this stuff coming out of the music schools and Conservatoires with a series of cases of historic and repeated abuse by some teaching staff, and at least one suicide by a former student who was put through the mill in court when supporting a prosecution. Vile.