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Biography
Millan Sachania FRSA is a British music scholar, editor and educator.
Career
Sachania graduated with double first-class honours and subsequently completed a doctorate in musicology at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He edited a five-volume collection of Leopold Godowsky’s arrangements and original music for the New York publisher Carl Fischer between 2001 and 2004, the essays in which draw upon and expand his The Arrangements of Leopold Godowsky: An Aesthetic, Historical and Analytical Study, one of the first critical studies on Godowsky’s corpus of arrangements.
Sachania has published widely, including articles on music aesthetics, new editions (with historical and editorial commentaries) of Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Poulenc's Three Novelettes for Piano, Stravinsky's Les Noces (in associate editorship with Margarita Mazo), Stravinsky's 1919 version of Les Noces, Stravinsky's Les Roi d’étoiles, Stravinsky's Renard, Sir Malcolm Arnold's Fifth Symphony, and thirteen volumes of Otakar Ševčík's Violin Studies. He was also editorial co-ordinator for Peters Edition's new Chopin edition. Sachania has frequently expressed his views on educational topics in the letter columns of British national newspapers, particularly often in The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
As an educator and schoolmaster, Sachania has worked extensively in the independent sector since 1999, and is on record as a critic of British state schools. He is also an advocate of promoting traditional skills, not much encountered in modern pedagogy, such as précis-writing. In June 2011, the Council of the Girls' Day School Trust, the UK's biggest educational charity, announced Sachania’s appointment as Head Master of Streatham & Clapham High School in south London from January 2012; this follows his tenure since 2007 as Deputy Head Master of Immanuel College, an HMC school in north London, where he was director of the sixth form.
Appointments
- Head Master, Streatham & Clapham High School
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- Member of the Independent Schools Inspectorate
- Vice-Chairman of the HMC/GSA Joint Universities Committee
- Member, UCAS Council
- Governor, Halliford School, Shepperton
- Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Musicians
- Trustee, Royal Society of Musicians
- Secretary, London Region Girls' Schools Association