It’s been a bad week for music teachers. The jailing of Philip Pickett for the horrendous historic abuse of students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, comes after 4 other instrumental teachers have been prosecuted during the past 12 months for abuses at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Chetham’s and Purcell specialist schools. Emerging allegations at other schools suggest that the abuse of students was far from exceptional during the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps just as disturbing was the unwillingness of the conservatoires and specialist schools to react to allegations at the time – a family whose daughter was taught by …