Female composers take the stage - Tomas Escobar, Hampton School

This year, millions of children across the world will be taking music exams, under some of the most internationally appraised exam boards. However, the vast majority will be playing the music of white European and American males, many of whom have lived in an era of colonisation and slavery. With so many other aspects of education having been ‘decolonised’, why should music in schools continue to be stuck in the past?