Each One Teach One

  • 16th November 2026
  • 2:55pm - 3:40pm
  • Rooms 4 & 5 sponsored by Cosmo

This interactive session will explore the Tomorrow’s Warriors participatory ethos of Each One Teach One, and free-to-access approaches for ensuring inclusivity and relevance for young people typically locked out of music education opportunity.

What key themes will be discussed?
  • The significance of high quality free-to-access education for the sector, for equity, and long-term change
What are the learning outcomes and key takeaways?
  • Understand the impact of lived experience and relevance being centred.
  • Explore routes into the best practice for inclusivity and relevance.
  • Leave with ideas for adapting and adopting new approaches to participation.
This session will be of particular interest to:
  • Those looking to develop their participatory practice.
Interactions
  • Group discussion
  • Audience Q&A

Speakers

  • Erin Barnes

    Tomorrow's Warriors

  • Ky Osborne

Erin Barnes

Tomorrow's Warriors

Erin Barnes is Head of Learning, Outreach and Engagement for Tomorrow’s Warriors. A creative learning specialist in cultural education and youth engagement, she led on major talent development initiatives for the BBC, Tate, National Literacy Trust, and youth activism campaigns before joining the Warriors Team to be laser focussed on access, equity and what it takes to meet young people where they are at so they can flourish into their full creative futures.

Ky Osborne

Kyle Osborne is a Pianist, Composer and educator based in London. After training at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance he has become a educator and advocate within Tomorrow’s Warriors, a staple in the music education landscape and a cornerstone of the London jazz scene. With them, Kyle has been playing gigs and delivering masterclasses all over the country, from Gurnsey to Plymouth to Barrow-in-Furness. Kyle has completed research projects for the Ivor’s Academy into music education and has done extensive work in aesthetic philosophy. He has recently delivered speeches for the Arts and Minds education conference and has also taught multiple short-courses at Trinity Laban, with invitations to deliver keynote addresses to education conferences across the country.

Kyle is also an accomplished musician, regularly playing stages such as Ronnie Scott’s, the Vortex, festivals like We Out Here and Love Supreme, and has been commissioned to have his orchestral and choral compositions played at the Royal Albert Hall. He has also been invited multiple times to play at the Houses of Parliament and has played for the Prime Minister.

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