Dr Jonathan Savage

Dr Jonathan Savage

Managing Director

Jonathan is the Managing Director of UCan Play. He has enjoyed a long career in music education, working for two high schools and co-leading the largest PGCE course in the UK at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jonathan is your point of contact for sales enquiries and can advise you on the full range of products that UCan Play offers. Jonathan is also responsible for developing a range of consultancy and educational projects that UCan Play undertakes with our partners. In addition to his work managing UCan Play, Jonathan is a published author and editor having written for Routledge, the Open University Press and Sage. He is Chair of Trustees for the Love Music Trust, the music education hub serving his home county of Cheshire East. Jonathan has worked as a consultant for the Musicians’ Union, recently conducting the largest piece of educational research into the state of music education in the United Kingdom. He is regularly asked to contribute to media stories. He appeared on Radio 4’s Front Row to debate with the Schools’ Minister Nick Gibb. 

Chris Bowes

Chris Bowes

Technical Consultant

Chris is UCan Play’s technical consultant and software designer. Chris advises on technical issues and has worked onsite with clients delivering our streaming solutions for live music performance which he helped develop. His work is illustrated in UCan Play’s live music broadcasts, and the range of software he produced for UCan Play includes Sound2Picture, Sound2Game and Hand2Hand.