Millan Sachania

Millan Sachania is a British music scholar, editor and educator.
Career
Sachania graduated with double first-class honours and subsequently completed a doctorate in musicology at , 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, Fifth Symphony, and thirteen volumes of 's Violin Studies. He was also editorial co-ordinator for Peters Edition's new Chopin edition. Sachania has frequently expressed his views, often on educational topics, in 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 2007 he became Deputy Head Master of Immanuel College, an school in north London, where he was previously director of the sixth form. Since January 2012 he has served as Head Master of Streatham & Clapham High School in south London.
Appointments
* Head Master, Streatham & Clapham High School
* Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
* Vice-Chairman of the HMC/GSA Joint Universities Committee
* Member, UCAS Council
* Governor, Halliford School, Shepperton
* Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Musicians
* Court of Assistants, Royal Society of Musicians
* Chairman, London Region Girls' Schools Association
* Director, Girls’ Schools Association

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