Caz Wolfson is a percussionist, music educator and passionate advocate for inclusive music-making. She has been teaching music for over twenty years, across a wide range of sectors, engaging with participants aged 3 – 90.
She has experience teaching individual and small group percussion lessons, delivering whole class and community workshops in samba drumming, South and West African drumming and dancing and Japanese Taiko drumming, has run school, community and County-level ensembles, and facilitating Creative Music Nurture Groups.
As a freelance percussionist, Caz has performed in major venues across the UK with ensembles and artists including Northern Sinfonia, the Karl Jenkins Festival Orchestra, comedian Bill Bailey and Blur’s bassist Alex Jones. She has been broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 and her playing has taken her to Europe, Africa, Australia and India.She graduated with a First Class degree in percussion from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, followed by a Masters at the Guildhall School supported by the Leverhulme Trust and an MBF Music Education Award.
After a period of freelance performing, teaching and workshop leading, Caz joined Hertfordshire Music Service in 2015 where she is the Whole Class & Community Music Development Lead for North Herts & Stevenage.