Patrick Allen (born 17 October 1955) is the English author of Singing Matters (Heinemann publishers), which won the Times Educational Supplement Schoolbook Award in 1999.
[4][5] Until July 2015, he worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher, based at Ifield Community College in Crawley, England where he was also Head of Music and Chair of Arts.
[7] Allen is a UK judge for the Teaching Awards,[8] a music education consultant and a PhD research student at SOAS.
[13][14] Allen also contributes to educational journals, and was a co-author of Music Suite, an interactive CD-ROM published by On-Line Classics (2004).
[16] Patrick Allen has been the director and conductor of this youth choir based at Ifield Community College since 1987.
[24] The choir was the subject of a film by SVC Television, directed by Andrew Vere in 1996[25] and has performed at world class venues such as The Royal Festival Hall, St Mark's Basilica in Venice and Barcelona Cathedral.