Sentencing Michael Brewer, Judge Martin Rudland, sitting at Manchester Crown Court, said he had used his "powerful position" to groom Frances Andrade.
"You have had an impressive career but that is now at an end," he said.
"Sadly there is another side to you and it is this. You were, and you may still be, a predatory sex offender. Of that let no-one be in any doubt."
A choirmaster who sexually abused a pupil who went on to take her own life during his trial has been jailed for six years.
Michael Brewer, 68, of Swarthmore Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, was convicted last month of indecently assaulting 48-year-old Frances Andrade when she was an underage student at the prestigious Chetham's School of Music in Manchester.
A man who was punched so viciously in the jaw that he was unable to eat for three months has been talking about his ordeal.
Alex Phillips was celebrating his birthday when he was attacked. Jane Hesketh reports.
Police have released CCTV footage of a man who was left unable to eat for three months after being punched in the jaw.
It happened outside a fast food shop in Selly Oak in February last year. Police are appealing for witnesses.
A fire at a substation under a railway line has cut the electricity in up to 8,000 homes in Selly Oak and Edgbaston.
Three trains are currently stuck on the line and are currently being moved.
For almost 10 years Margaret Froggatt has been sending letters to her family in Australia, only to have them delivered to Buckinghamshire.
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The parents of a five-year-old girl say they are angry after receiving a letter from the NHS saying their healthy child is overweight.
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