'Sex abuse at top music schools'
Sexual abuse and inappropriate behaviour took place at five of the UK's specialist music schools over a 40-year period, it has been reported.
The allegations - including claims that children as young as 10 were abused - implicates five elite music schools.
The Channel 4 News investigation follows recent revelations of historic sexual abuse at the world-renowned Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. Greater Manchester Police said that investigations into that school were "ongoing".
The other school named is the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, and Surrey Police said they have been contacted about the allegations.
The allegations include claims the founding music director of the Surrey school sexually abused pupils as young as 10 in the 1960s.
Violinist, Nigel Kennedy, who was a pupil at the school at the time, told Channel 4 News he was "shook up and appalled" by the allegations.
The Menuhin School was founded in 1963 by Yehudi Menuhin with the help of his friend, the pianist Marcel Gazelle.
Channel 4 News said they received allegations that Gazelle, who performed and recorded with Mr Menuhin, sexually abused girls in the school's bedrooms.
Irita Kutchmy, who studied with Gazelle from the age of nine to twelve, told the broadcaster his behaviour had a "very detrimental" effect on her childhood.
Marcel Gazelle died in 1969. His family said he was a good man and they were surprised by the allegations, which they dispute. The Yehudi Menuhin School said it was "shocked and saddened to learn of the allegations".
