http://www.victorianopera.com.au/www/html/589-teacher-training-program.asp?intSiteID=1#anchor591

10% off PD course fee if booked this term (term 1, 2011)

CONFERENCE DETAILS
Full session descriptions, timetable, venue information and parking information are available from the aMuse website:
http://amuse.vic.edu.au/CONFERENCE/VCEcon11.htm

Saturday 26th February – Sunday 27th February 2011

VENUE: Carey Baptist Grammar School - 349 Barkers Road, KEW

Welcome to another year of the Sydney Symphony Sinfonietta Composition Project.

To support the project we are holding Professional Learning Seminars in 4 centres – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Hobart at the end of March, 2012. The Sinfonietta Resource Kit is now available to purchase.

More details here: www.sydneysymphony.com/education/schools/sinfonietta/

Rachel McLarin, Education Coordinator, Sydney Symphony (02) 8215 4615

Please save the date for  the 2012 VCE Music Teachers’ Conference.
Finalised program and registration form available shortly.

DATES
Saturday 25 February, 2012
Sunday 26 February, 2012

VENUE
Carey Baptist Grammar School, 349 Barkers Road, KEW

DRAFT PROGRAM (SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT IF REQUIRED)

SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY

Session 1
MUSIC STYLE AND COMPOSITION
9.00am – 12.30pm

Session 1A
VCE VET
9.00am – 12.30pm

Session 2
MUSIC INVESTIGATION
1.15pm – 4.45pm

SUNDAY 26 February

Session 4
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
9.00am – 4.30pm

CONFERENCE COSTS

SESSIONS 1, 1A and 2 (Saturday sessions)
• $50 per session for members
• $75 per session for non-members

SESSIONS 4 (Sunday session)
• $140 for members
• $260 for non-members

CATERING
Morning and afternoon tea are included on both days of the VCE Conference.
Lunch is included for Session 4 (Sunday) only. Participants attending all sessions on Saturday 25 February should bring their own lunch on this day.

ENQUIRIES
Kevin Kelley
03 9349 1048
info@amuse.vic.edu.au
www.amuse.vic.edu.au

For Sorry Day (26 May 2011) or for Reconciliation Week (27 May – 3 June 2011) listen to Black Arm Band’s music on YouTube (www.youtube.com) and discuss the band’s motivation for performing (read on). Listen to Gurrumul Yunupingu’s soulful music (eg. Wiyathul) while doing written work (www.grooveshark.com lets you listen for free).

Black Arm Band has just been asked to perform at the London Olympics in 2012

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/25/3226432.htm

The aim of Black Arm Band (www.blackarmband.com.au) is: “It is a creative meeting place for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists and producers to develop, perform, promote and celebrate contemporary Australian Indigenous music as a symbol of resilience and hope in the spirit and action of reconciliation.”

For 3MBS FM’s Radiothon, Classically Kids is pulling out all the stops on 7th May, 2011…

FREE LESSON IDEA: RECORD THE RADIO SHOW TO PLAY BACK TO YOUR STUDENTS

Our special guest  in the studio with us – and our new composer of the month – is French composer Hector Berlioz. Find out what he’s been up to for the last 140 odd years…

There’ll be a quiz to keep everyone on their toes…

Celebrate the birthday of Johannes Brahms…

We look at another AFL club and try to work out where their theme song came from…

And lots more…

Join Classically Kids this Saturday morning for our Radiothon Special, and if you like what we do, keep us on air by becoming a 3MBS subscriber – call 03 9416 1035.

Every subscriber gets a $30 CD voucher from Thomas’ Music and everyone goes in the draw to win a Bernstein Baby Grand, thanks to Bernie’s Music land.

Classically Kids, 3MBS 103.5FM, Saturdays 8am – 9am with Jacqui and Adam.

3MBS education program

Saturday morning 8am

Australia/Melbourne 103.5 FM

It’s birthday of the great Franz Liszt – piano virtuoso extraordinaire – happy birthday Franz…who was a buddy of…

Chopin – it’s still Chopin month on Classically Kids, and  Katie Harley clues us up about the  pieces that Chopin churned out – mazurkas, polonaises, nocturnes, you name it…

Didn’t get around to our Nuts ‘n’ Bolts segment last week, so this week we’ll finally look at Jeremiah Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary” – we’ll pull it apart, give it a good going over, and put it back together…

And for a bit of world music, we go all Greek – so pull out your bouzoukis and join in…and-a-one, and-a-two…

Plus lots more on Classically Kids this Saturday on 3MBS 103.5 FM, 8am – 9am with Jacqui and Adam. Classically Kids – not just for kids! Listen online at www.3mbs.org.au

3MBS FM – Program Highlights 3MBS FM is Australia’s leading Community radio station for Fine Music – Classical, Folk and Jazz.

3MBS FM can be streamed live over the internet, making it easy to tune into their “Classically Kids” program from all over the world: Saturday mornings 8-9am (AEST).

3MBS FM 103.5 if you are in Melbourne!

Step 1. Just get your school, music class, choir or even just one person from your group  to choose a piece of classical or jazz music.
Step 2. Send your request to  -   3mbskids@gmail.com
Step 3. We’ll e-mail you back to let you know when we’ll be playing your request.
Step 4. Tune in and listen! Easy as that. You can listen on the radio (in/around Melbourne) and stream the show online (all over the world).

Classically Kids EVERY Saturday from 8am – 9am on 3MBS 103.5 FM, with Jacqui and Adam

www.3mbs.org.au

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RmWo408_CmH4iCdLifzUj9N86nyj9p45IW32oi1sTbw/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CI7NrPQG

Here are 41 FREE ideas from Scott Watson about ways to use GarageBand software in the music classroom. (You may need to login to Google in order to view this file.)

Enjoy!

Go to resource: a3 Australian Arts Alive for schools is a program run by the Australian School of Performing Arts. Read more…

ABC Keys to Music – listen to a 4-part series of audio podcasts from May 2009. Richard Gill and Graham Abbott discuss the importance of quality school Music Education for all Australian children.

(Scroll down the webpage to the heading “Music Education Series”)

For the last 6 years, conductor Richard Gill has been working with the Sydney Symphony’s Education Dept. to encourage young composers to write for Sinfonia, the training orchestra of the Sydney Symphony. Brooke Green spoke to participants of this year’s project and created this collage.

Listen here

An opportunity for advanced-level music makers from Victorian Government and Independent Secondary Schools to participate with other like-minded young musicians in the ABODA Victoria Honours Band 2011 with conductor, Andrew Mott.  This outstanding ensemble will perform with the ANCA Honours Choir at the Sounds Great Music Educators’ Conference at Melbourne High School.

http://vic.aboda.org.au/node/201

ACCET Choral Conductor Summer School
Monday 16 – Thursday 19 January 2012 @ Xavier College, Kew VIC

Whether of advanced, intermediate or beginner standard conductors will have hands-on conducting tuition every day. In 4 stimulating days there will be opportunity for participants to increase knowledge of training the voice, of warm-ups, diction and rehearsal techniques, building musicality through body movement, and expressing emotion through singing. There will be repertoire sessions especially for primary/children’s choir; for secondary/youth choir; and for community and church choir. All full attendance participants will get a donated package of some 50 choral pieces.

Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training    www.choralconductors.org.au

Go to resource: Acid Studio 7 allows students to compose songs, record, mix and upload for distribution. Read more…

Deadline extended until Friday 9th September 2o11

Categories for Primary and Secondary song-writers

acmf.com.au

RAMEAU Dances from Dardanus, Les Boréades, Castor et Pollux and others

*Richard Tognetti Artistic Director and Lead Violin*
*Rafael Bonachela Artistic Director and Choreographer*
*Sydney Dance Company
*Australian Chamber Orchestra

Wed 31 Oct 12pm-2pm 2012
Sydney Theatre

A mutual passion for Rameau’s perfumed and powerful French Baroque dance
music sparks this new production by Rafael Bonachela and Richard Tognetti.
Rameau’s flair for rhythm and melody, and feeling for choreography, leads
many to name him the greatest-ever ballet composer, certainly the most
influential. Bonachela’s dynamic choreography, innate musicality and
theatricality serve to illuminate this brilliant music, performed live by
the ACO.

This performance will feature and introduction and behind-the-scenes
discussion by Richard Tognetti and Rafael Bonachela, and a question and
answer session at the end of the performance.

Tickets $30. Teachers may book online www.aco.com.au/Default.aspx?url=/matinee
or phone 1800 444 444.

Questions? Please contact Sarah Conolan on (02) 8274 3871 or at
sarah.conolan@aco.com.au

http://www.aco.com.au/downloads/ACO-112Tour2_Web.pdf

The program notes from ACO’s 2011 concert season contain program notes on interesting 20th century works (by Alex Ross).

Read about the ACO Schools’ Program for 2012

ACO Matinee Concerts for Secondary Students
Two performances exclusively for secondary school students, led by Richard
Tognetti Artistic Director & Lead Violin, Australian Chamber Orchestra and presented by
Francis Merson, Limelight Magazine.

MOZART Symphony K196/121, "La finta giardiniera"
MEALE Cantilena Pacifica
SCHUBERT (arr. Tognetti) String Quartet No.14, "Death and the Maiden"

*Fri 8 Jun 12pm-1.30pm
Sydney - City Recital Hall Angel Place

*Tue 19 Jun 11am-12.30pm
Melbourne – Melbourne Recital Centre

Tickets $20. Teachers can book
online www.aco.com.au/Default.aspx?url=/matinee
or phone 1800 444 444.

During these interactive concerts, students listen for key elements in the
music, while learning about performance and ensemble techniques. A broad
range of repertoire encompassing Mozart, Schubert and the contemporary
Australian composer Richard Meale covers key aspects of the NSW & VIC music
curricula. Specially tailored Teacher Resources are provided with each
booking, providing students with additional insights into the repertoire.
Resources include state-based curriculum notes and exercises, recordings
and scores. Concerts are tailored to the music curriculum for stages 4 and
5 for New South Wales and levels 5, 6 and VCE for Victoria.

Open Rehearsal for School Students
Thurs 2 Aug

Students sit within metres of the musicians while they rehearse, getting a behind-the-scenes look at how the Orchestra prepares for concerts. After the rehearsal, students are invited to meet the ACO players. Register your students.

Tour 1 WA Tour 1 NSW Tour 1 VIC Tour 1 SA Tour 1 QLD Tour 1 ACT

Above are the links to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s FREE teaching notes and lesson ideas for their 2012 Tour 1. Lesson content is designed for Secondary students.

NSW VIC WA ACT QLD SA

Above are the links to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s FREE teaching notes and lesson ideas for their 2012 Tour 2 (TWO). Lesson content is designed for Secondary students.

Go to resource: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is a professional orchestra, resident in South Australia.

Read more…

AIM is located @ 1-51 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, a 2-minute walk from Central Station.

Alexander Technique for Musicians: short course, commencing on Monday 16 May!

This course will teach you how to take care of your body while you play and perform music, and increase your self-confidence and comfort as a musician.

Over 6 sessions participants will experience a thorough introduction to the philosophy and practice of the Alexander Technique. There will be masterclass opportunities interspersed throughout the program, which is suitable for musicians of all levels of experience, from beginners to professional.

This course is suitable for senior secondary students, music teachers and any musician who wants to get more out of their practice and performance.

Dates: Monday evenings, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
16th, 23rd & 30th May
6th, 20th & 27th June (no class 13th June, Queens Birthday holiday)

Cost: $265 inc GST
(20% discount for enrolled University of Melbourne students)

Venue: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Gate 12, Royal Parade
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010

Information and enrolments: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/short

Go to resource: Ambient Orchestras (Vic) offer a disability program, consisting of creating and performing music, for those with an intellectual disability.

Read more…

Sample Units from Australian Music Educators Assoc (Vic) – under the heading “aMuse VELS Support Documents”

23-29 May 2011

Piano! 2011 – ANAM – Lectures, seminars, masterclasses, recitals

www.anam.com.au

ANCA Victoria is pleased to invite you to the State Choral Festival

‘SING IN THE CITY’ on 16 – 18 September 2011. Registration is now

open for this exciting choral event.

SING IN THE CITY is a unique opportunity for the Choral Community to come

together and do what they do best – SING!

Join us as three of Australia’s legendary choral conductors and two of

our country’s most successful singing teachers share their insights and

talents. This Festival has something for every stage of development of the

choral musician: singers from age 10 to 100, choral conductors, singing

teachers, educators, music students and everyone who enjoys the beauty of

voices raised in song!

You can choose to come as an individual or get your choir to come along;

if you’re a conductor, come and sing or observe rehearsals with a chance

to learn about singing issues from leading teachers. Our three streams will

feature Australian music for Primary students, the best of current

repertoire for Secondary Schools and a complete performance of the Mozart

Requiem in the Community Stream. Repertoire is listed in the brochure.

The Professional Development Stream will offer workshops in breathing,

posture for choirs, a Q&A session with our conductors and a chance to

observe them in action.

• Primary Choir Stream

Conductor: Mark O’Leary (Founder and Director of the Young Voices of

Melbourne)

Venue: VCA School of Music

Cost: $300 per choir or $50 per individual

• Secondary Choir Stream

Conductor: George Torbay (Hailed by The Sydney Morning Herald as ‘one of

Australia’s leading musical lights’)

Venue: St John’s Southgate

Cost: $300 per choir or $50 per individual

• Community Choir Stream

Conductor: Margaret Pride (Music Director for Collegium Symphonic Chorus

Perth WA)

Venue: BMW Edge @ Fed Square

Cost: $300 per choir or $75 per individual

• Professional Development Stream

Presenters: Ron Morris (Speech Pathologist, Audiologist and Counter

Tenor), and Anna Connolly (Senior Lecturer in Voice at the Melbourne Conservatorium of

Music)

Venue: To be advised

Cost: $150 per participant (includes BOTH days)

REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION

To download a brochure go to

http://anca.org.au/vic-news-view/sing-in-the-city-209

Online registrations can be made via the link http://tinyurl.com/5szumhe

Registration closes 1 August 2011.

Westlake articles – click on the link to ‘Articles’ to view many free articles/lectures on Nigel Westlake’s film music

Go to resource: The Artists in Residence program, is run by Arts Queensland and Education Queensland and funded by the Australia Council. Read more…

Go to resource: Artists in Residence (air) is run by arts@work (Arts Tasmania), and funded by the Australia Council. Read more…

Go to resource: Artists in Schools (AiS) NT is a program run by Arts NT and the Department of Education and Training, NT.   Read more…

http://www.artmusfair.eu/education/

A European Network Conference on Education of Contemporary Music – from Kindergarten to Generation 50+ in the frame of the “Weimar Spring Festival of Contemporary Music”

That is the artmusfair.EDUCATION from 28 April until 01 May 2011 in Weimar

New Music for New Audiences, under this motto the European Composers’ Forum initiates the first special issue of the ARTMUSFAIR network conferences, named artmusfair.EDUCATION 2011, as part of the XII. Weimar Spring Festival of Contemporary Music. German and European actors and experts from the music scene (composers, musicians, etc.) and music education (teachers, university lecturers, audience developers, etc.) are invited to join together in the three-day networking conference from 28 April until 01 May 2011 in Weimar to take part in round tables, workshops, project presentations and concerts, to update each other on their skills, experiences and different backgrounds to consequently forward the important field of teaching contemporary music in a modern education context.

ArtPlay is an arts centre in Melbourne that provides school and holiday programs for children and youth. Read more…

Go to resource: Arts in Education provides links for information on arts education organisations and collaborations. The site is run by Arts Victoria, and includes information about artists placement in schools.

Go to resource: The Arts Learning Area (NT Curriculum Framework) provides the framework for teaching arts in Northern Territory schools. Read more…

Go to resource: The Arts Learning Framework outlines ideas and outcomes for the teaching of the Arts at all stages of learning according to the South Australian curriculum. Read more…

Go to resource: Arts Queensland is the governmental agency for arts in Queensland. Read more…

Go to resource: Arts Tasmania is the government agency that supports arts in Tasmania. Read more…

Go to resource: Arts Victoria is the government agency that supports arts in Victoria. Read more…

Go to resource: arts, culture + me is a Queensland governmental arts program that encourages young artists to become active. Read more…

Go to resource: arts2GO programs for school students are run by Regional Arts Victoria. Read more…

Go to resource: ArtsEdge (Western Australia) is a collaboration between the education, arts, and cultural sectors in WA. Read more…

Go to resource: ArtsEdge Kennedy Centre Music Lesson Plans (USA) offers dozens of music lesson plans, many of which are integrated with other subjects such as science and maths. Read more…

Go to resource: artsmmadd.com is a site developed by Associate Professor Deirdre Russell-Bowie (UWS) and Dr Christopher Klopper (CSU). Read more…

New Teacher/Graduate PD day at Macquarie University on the 19th of November (daytime) followed by 4.45pm AGM for ASME.

Please feel free to send through any reviews, write ups, events etc, that you consider would be valuable to share with the ASME community. Please note that we are using the google site (below) as our main form of communitcation while the National Executive look to develop a new National site that would host all state and territory chapters. https://sites.google.com/site/asmensw/

This session is specifically focusing upon new teachers and recently graduated music
educators. Sessions will relate to curriculum, technology, teaching HSC music, conducting and a
special session presented by recent graduates for new teachers. Board of Studies Inspector Jay
McPherson will also present a session for new teachers as well.

https://sites.google.com/site/asmensw/announcements

NSW division of ASME presents a one day conference for classroom and studio Music teachers on 14th May, 2011 in Hornsby.

Go to resource: Assessment for Learning has been developed by the Curriculum Corporation, and is a site that provides support for designing assessment tasks. Read more…

http://ia600505.us.archive.org/20/items/MusicAsIdentityLessonPlan/MusicAsIdentityOnlineLessonPlan.pdf

A free lesson plan from Nick Jaworski designed for Year 9-12 students reflecting on MUSIC & IDENTITY. It involves using Audacity (or other music editing software) to create a 3 minute audio project. This project may suit Challenge-Based-Learning principals.

Go to resource: Audacity is a free audio editor and recording software program, available for various operating systems.  Read more…

AMAZING AUDACTITY RE-SCHEDULED
NEW DATE: Friday 29 April 2011

Full schedule of all music technology workshops listed below as well as on the aMuse website.

http://amuse.vic.edu.au/2009_PL/katie%20wardrobe.htm

www.theaustralianvoices.com/audition

Now auditioning for 17-35 year old singers.

Go to resource: Auralia is a comprehensive ear-training software package, published by Sibelius. Read more…

Australian
Clarinet & Saxophone
Festival

3-6 July, 2011 (Vic)

For further details, please visit: www.clasax.org

International artists: Ao Kun (China), Li Yusheng (China), Charles West (USA), Jeremy W. Reynolds (USA), Noah Getz (USA), Philippe Cuper (France) & Philippe Geiss (France).

Australian artists: Alan Vivian, Andy Firth, Barega Saxophone Quartet, Barry Cockcroft, Christina Leonard, Clarion214, Clarity, Continuum Sax, David Griffiths, David Thomas, Floyd Williams, Heather Monkhouse, Irit Silver, Jabra Latham, James Nightingale, Jess Voigt, Joseph Lallo, Katia Beaugeais, Lawrence Dobell, Margery Smith, Martin Kay, Matthew Styles, Michael Duke, Nicholas Russoniello, Peter Jenkin, Philip Arkinstall, Richard Haynes, Robert Schubert, Ros Dunlop & Sue Newsome.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/musiccompetition

http://www.facebook.com/australianyouthclassicalmusiccompetition

Register your school in Australia’s biggest music program

Our program song has been recorded and is now up on the website for your listening pleasure. There are already 500 schools registered to take part in this year’s program which will unite more than half a million students in the performance of ‘We’ve Got The Music’ on Thursday, 1^st September at 11.30am. Don’t forget participation in the program is FREE. The audio files, arrangements, lyric sheet and classroom activity kit: it’s all downloadable once you register your school.

So listen to the song, register now and get your school community on board!

On Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th May Caulfield Grammar School is hosting the Australia Brass Quintet. Australian Brass Quintet David Elton – Principal Trumpet of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Tristram Williams – International leading young soloist, ensemble musician, improviser and educator. Ben Jacks – Principal Horn of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Michael Bertoncello – Trombonist of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Shannon Pittaway – Bass Trombonist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

There will be opportunities for student workshops and staff professional development with some of Australia’s finest brass musicians. The two days of workshops will finish with a concert to be held in the Cripps Centre at Caulfield Grammar School, 217 Glen Eira Road, East St Kilda.

Go to resource: The Australian Curriculum Corporation is a one-stop site that provides online links to all Australian curricula. Read more…

www.myamn.com.au/index.php/social

an online social network for Australian musicians – ask advice, share videos, chat …

Nominations for the 2011 Awards for Excellence in School Music Education are due to close on Friday, 1st April, 2011. The awards aim to recognise music teachers and school leaders for their exceptional contribution to enhancing the status and quality of music education in their schools.

There will be up to eleven teacher Awards and up to two school leader Awards. Each recipient of an Award will receive a certificate and a cheque for $5,000, which is intended to be used to further their professional learning related to music education.

All details about the 2011 Awards, including Guidelines, and nomination forms are available on the website at:

http://musicawards.asme.edu.au/

Australian Youth Band Southern Stars (Marching Band) is looking for new players.

The Melbourne Recital Centre is happy to announce that the Bach Competition 2012 is now open for entries.

·         Closing Date for Application is Wednesday, 30 May 2012

·         The Final will be held in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre at 3pm on Sunday, 17 June 2012

The competition guidelines and Application form can be found here – http://www.melbournerecital.com.au/bachcompetition

If you have any competition enquiries, please feel free to email us on – bachcompetition@melbournerecital.com.au

Ben Northey is the conductor clinician for a seminar, master class and video workshop for school band directors. We are proud to be able to celebrate Ben’s appointment as Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This special event is presented by The Grainger Wind Symphony in partnership with the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (Victoria branch). Ben’s services is provided by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the event is assisted with sponsorship from Allans Music + Billy Hydes.

On Wednesday 8 June, at 5.30pm the public Seminar has Ben talking and answering questions about Exploring the Art of Conducting. At 6.30pm, the full participants have a public Conducting Master Class with Ben as clinician but without piano or any instrumentalists. At 7.30pm finger food is provides free. From 8.30pm each full participant in turn conducts The Grainger Wind Symphony in a public Video Workshop with maestro Northey as clinician.

All three sessions are open to the public. You are all encouraged to come to congratulate Ben for his appointment and learn from his experiences in music and conducting from his youth in Ballarat to his studies at University of Melbourne with John Hopkins and at the Sibelius Academy in Finland.  Entry fee includes membership of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (Victoria). Apply to come by the due date so catering can be arranged for you

Full participants will conduct in the one hour Master Class a concert band work of their choice, and conduct the same in front of The Grainger Wind Symphony with about 12 minutes of podium time. There is a strict limit of 8 full participants. The first eight places will go to the suitable applicants who pay their fee first. Applications for full participants will close on Friday 1 June.

The venue is the De Young Performing Arts Centre at Carey Baptist Grammar School, 349 Barkers Road, Kew.

Application form, fees and more information can be download from the GWS website, www.graingerwindsymphony.asn.au.

Enthusiastic and aspiring musicians and music teachers have been invited to attend Orchestra Victoria’s free intensive two day workshops in Bendigo this Wednesday and Thursday 17-18 August, 2011.

Students will be mentored by professional musicians to improving their ensemble playing and technique. Under the baton of Dominic Harvey, the workshop will conclude with an evening concert on the 18^th August at 6:30pm, where the students will play alongside Orchestra Victoria and showcase their new skills to the community.

Music teachers, ensemble leaders and local conductors have also been invited for the two day Professional Development workshop. This unique education model will again be led by Dominic Harvey and will help the students and teachers to extend their skills.

If you would like to attend what promises to be an amazing FREE concert, call The Capital in Bendigo on 03 5434 6100

If you require more information, please contact Orchestra Victoria on 03 9694 3600.

A interesting, if comical, pictorial explanation of how to get more money for secondary music AND engage more students.

http://teachingmusic.tumblr.com/post/7034375810/what-we-get-wrong-an-illustrated-guide-to-our-music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTB58ZmnudA&feature=youtube

A joint workshop between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School for players of all brass instruments from later primary to VCE level.

Directed by Charles MacInnes (Convenor of Brass, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music), participants will have the chance to be part of a group warm up, learn about brass playing techniques, participate in or observe a performance workshop, as well as take part in a large brass ensemble.

This workshop is open to all school-aged brass students (year 5 upwards) of all ages and levels of experience

WHEN: Saturday 23 July, 10:00am – 4:00pm
WHERE: VCASS, 57 Miles Street, Southbank
HOW MUCH: $40 per participant / $20 per observer (teacher)

MORE INFORMATION AND ENROLMENTS: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/short/brass

http://www.artscareer.com.au/node/6281

Held annually as part of the Alice Springs Desert Festival - and the Alice Springs iNTune Music Conference presented by Music NT - the Bush Bands Bash concert is fast-becoming one of Australia’s pre-eminent emerging Indigenous music showcases.

Successful bands not only have the opportunity to perform their music to a national festival and music industry crowd, they also participate inBush Bands Business.

Bush Bands Business is a  5-day intensive mentoring and professional development program which happens in the lead up to the Concert.

Nationally-renowned arts fund The Seed has also partnered withMusic NT, to provide three mentors from the national music industry to be a part of the 2011 Bush Bands Business program.

Bush Bands Bash is a great opportunity for emerging desert bands to take their music and skills to a new level.

Download the  2011 Application Form, or visit the Bush Bands Business website for more information. Applications close June 3rd, 2011!

Read more about the Bush Bands Bash here and at this link, and view the photo gallery from last year’s Bash on the Music NT Forum.

www.iv-v-i.com/

This card game is designed for 14 year old + students who are studying harmony and cadence writing.

CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION – the Musical Society of Victoria will conduct a Chamber Music competition for groups of up to six instrumental players up to the age of 23 years on

Sunday May 20th at 2.30 p.m.

Details and entry forms are available on the website at www.msv.org.au or ring 03 9509 7767.

CHAMBER MUSIC SHORT COURSE for school-age students

Students are welcome to participate in this 5 session Chamber Music Course as individuals or as an established group.

Individual students will be assigned to chamber groups based on ability and experience.

The course includes:

Þ      Rehearsal and practice techniques for working in a chamber music group.

Þ      Coaching

Þ      Ensemble exercises (away from instrument)

Þ     Student Concert in final session

CONTACT: Course Director: Robin Baker 0435 073 247

robinb222@optusnet.com.au

When: Sundays 3.30 – 5pm: 5 sessions:  Oct 16, Oct 23, Nov 13, Nov 20 and Nov 27

Who: Pianists and string players – minimum Grade 6 AMEB standard or equivalent

Where: VCA, 234 St Kilda Rd, Southbank, Melbourne

Cost: $290 per student for the full 5 sessions

Sydney Morning Herald Article

http://news.smh.com.au/national/choral-singing-makes-you-happy-survey-20080710-3cyg.html

Choral singing makes you happy: survey

Go to resource: ChordBook.com is an interactive virtual online guitar.

Read more…

Watch THIS TEDx YouTube clip about a collaboratively-made film by Daniel Johns (from Silverchair) and Josh Wakely. Discuss how music can be inspired by images, stories and pictures. Discuss how film can be inspired by music.

The Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Victoria is again holding their
annual VCE masterclass afternoon on Sunday August 7th at 2:30pm at MLC
(Barkers Rd, Kew).

Year 11 and 12 students studying clarinet and saxophone are invited to
apply to play and be workshopped. We are fortunate to have Peter
Rickard, a senior AMEB examiner and Head of Woodwind at Scotch College
as the tutor for the afternoon.

Places will be allocated on a first in, best dressed basis so please
apply soon to avoid disappointment!

Other students, especially those in Year 9 or 10 and contemplating VCE
music, are encouraged to attend as audience members, as is anybody
else who is interested.

All enquiries to Fiona McKellar (fionakmckellar@gmail.com).

Go to resource: The Classical Music Library is an online resource that gives subscribers access to most Western classical recorded pieces (over 450000 tracks). Read more…

YOUTUBE LINK HERE

Aston String Quartet plays a ‘classical interpretation’ of a Cold Play song

Play it to any age-group

Go to resource: Classics for Kids is a podcast station that streams classical music suitable for children.

Read more…

Go to resource: Clinical Applications of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics and Neurology is edited by Tony Wigram and Jos De Backer, and published by J. Kingsley Publishers, 1999.

Read more…

http://cmer.arts.usf.edu/

A free course for Coffs Harbour (and surrounds) youth commences on March 5th, 2012 entitled

CERTIFICATE II IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (Media).

The course appeals to migrant and refugee youth, as well as other local students. It takes place 3 days per week for 10 months, and is Year 10 equivalent. Content includes digital music editing, sound mixing, multimedia …

For more info: Haridian Ramirez, Outreach Coordinator/Multicultural Contact Officer, North Coast TAFE

Tel: 02 66482416

haridian.ramirez@det.nsw.edu.au

Just for fun, watch Mr Bean conducting a Christmas band – a good introduction to rubato?!?

Melbourne Youth Music and Guest Artistic Director Andrew Mott invite 15 to 30 year olds to attend our Conductor Development Program as part of the MYM 2012 Summer School at the Victorian College of the Arts Southbank, January 16 – 20.  The program is ideal for aspiring young conductors or graduate teachers who would like to gain further proficiency in conducting a range of ensemble styles and levels.  The program is primarily based in practical experiences, working with facilitator Dobbs Franks.

CONDUCTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The Conductor Development Program will offer aspiring conductors and music educators an invaluable experience, enhancing their conducting technique across a range of musical genres.  During the course of the week, activities will include visits to the various ensembles of the MYM Summer School, meeting the program directors as well as observing and directing wind, jazz and string ensembles at all levels.  Each participant receives significant amounts of podium time working with a dedicated chamber orchestra on substantial repertoire, mentoring sessions to develop essential conducting technique as well as skills development in score preparation, teaching and rehearsal skill.  Admission to the Conductor Development Program is by application only, for ages 15 – 30.  Participants may also be contacted by email requesting a reference from their school / music teacher stating the applicant’s musical skills and previous conducting experience.  Participants should have the ability to read orchestral scores and a basic understanding of conducting patterns.

DOBBS FRANKS
Dobbs Franks is equally at home conducting symphony, opera, ballet, music theatre or chamber ensembles.  His career spans more than 50 years.  His Australian sojourn includes the Australian premiere of West Side Story (1960), Porgy and Bess (1965) and World Premiere of Richard Meale’s Mer de Glace (1991).  He has been Music Director of the Australian Ballet, Tasmanian Symphony, West Australian Ballet, and Conductor of the Australian Opera, Guest Conductor of all of the Australian and New Zealand symphony orchestras and Head of Music of the Australian Opera Studio.  He has frequently been on television and radio in a variety of roles.  In addition to his many activities in Australia he has performed in 49 of the 50 states of the USA, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, England, Switzerland, Greece, Israel, Korea, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and New Zealand.  His latest recording is a DVD of Verdi’s Nabucco which he performed and recorded in Tokyo, Japan in September, 2010.

Program Fee             $435
Program Structure       30 Hours

REHEARSALS
9:30am – 3:30pm         Monday 16 – Friday 20 January

APPLICATIONS
Visit www.mym.org.au and follow the links to Summer School to complete the online registration form.  Applications close 09 September, and placed are limited to ensure maximum contact with ensembles and facilitators.

ENQUIRIES
(03) 9376 8988
mym@mym.org.au

Go to resource: Conference notes by Katie Wardrobe (Midnight Music) on Music, technology and education. Includes presentations on Sibelius, Groovy, Audacity, Acid and podcasting.

Go to resource: ConnectEd Arts is a program run by Arts NSW that provides subsidies for school arts excursions, and funds education programs run by arts organisations. Read more…

As part of the Australian Copyright Council’s national seminar program for 2011, they are holding a Copyright for Music Teachers (Ed Inst & Private Tuition) seminar.

The seminar will be an essential overview of key copyright issues associated with music teaching, including a comparison of the different provisions that apply when teaching within educational institutions and teaching privately.

Topics include:

*      How copyright applies to music
*      Identifying the circumstances where relevant exceptions apply
*      Copyright obligations and trouble-shooting
*      Using resources from the Internet

For dates, times, venue and how to book, please visit www.copyright.org.au/seminars

Go to resource: Creating Instruments at Satisfied Mind (USA) is a site that provides instructions on how to make various instruments.

Read more…

Go to resource: Cultural Infusion co-ordinates authentic multi-cultural performances, workshops and residencies in Australian schools.

Go to resource: The Curriculum Framework Learning Statement for the Arts is published by the Curriculum Council of WA, 1998. Read more…

Go to resource: Curriculum Press is run by the Curriculum Corporation and provides suitable resources (books, dvds, websites) for use in schools across a wide range of subject areas, including The Arts. Read more…

Go to resource: Curriculum Support – Creative Arts 7-12 (NSW) is a NSW Department of Education and Training site that provides further resources for the teaching of the creative arts in NSW schools. Read more…

INTRODUCTION TO VCE MUSIC PERFORMANCE AURAL AND THEORY

Deborah Smith presents an interactive lecture and workshop for students studying VCE Music Performance (Units 1 & 2 or 3 & 4). Sunday April 3rd, 2011. Carlton VIC

Enquiries: Deborah Smith Email: dsmusicbookings@gmail.com

Applications now open for 2012 Bachelor of Music majoring in Classical Performance at Australian Institute of Music, NSW.

Click to visit : www.aim.edu.au/courses/classical-performance/

free worksheet – suit middle to upper secondary Music students, working with chord creation theory

from www.musicteachingresources.com

A US appeals court reinstated a $US675,000 (AUS $659,115) verdict against a Boston University student who illegally downloaded 30 songs and shared them on the internet. Read full article here. Now is a good time to discuss responsible music downloading with teenagers. Why Music Matters website has a series of animated videos about Australian bands which emphasise that writing/recording music is their sole source of income. Watch and discuss with your students. Ask students when was the last time they paid for an MP3 download or music CD.

Dismuke - a website dedicated to music of the early 20th century, including early recordings.

The D²Drumline is one of Melbourne’s unique entertainment ensembles, providing high impact, visual, precision drumming inspired by the USA based Drum Corps International circuit. It is one of the few ensembles of this kind in Australia.

For more information: Website
Short Promotional Video

Percussion teachers, students or department heads may be interested in the upcoming Drumline Masterclass, which aims to introduce and share this relatively unknown drumming style with an Australian audience.

DATE: October 30th, 2011

EMAIL: cam@d2drumline.com

La Seconda Prattica with Latitude 37

Following on from the success of last year’s workshop on French  Baroque Music, the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, in association with Latitude 37, is excited to present a 3-day winter school focussing on the performance practices of early-17th Century Italy – the turning point that created the baroque period.

Over three days participants will closely examine the repertoire,  treatises and documentation of early-17th Century Italian music performance. Special attention in masterclasses and lectures will be  given to the practice of improvising and interpretation of the score,  focussing on the the implementation of various techniques which are  lacking on the printed score but can be recovered from the many extant  sources of the period.

The members of Latitude 37 are recognised as exceptional performers  of this repertoire and will be joined by two guest artists; bassoonist  Simon Rickard, who will return to discuss the diverse and exotic wealth  of instruments in use in the early 17th Century, and Melbourne  Conservatorium Convenor of Voice, Stephen Grant, as vocal coach.

Dates
Friday 15, Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July
10:00am – 6:00pm  Friday and Saturday
10:00am – 8:30pm Sunday (inc evening concert)
Enrolments close Friday 8 July

Full program details and enrolment forms: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/short/earlymusic.

Go to resource: edna – music resources offers 128 resources for school music teachers and is published by the Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations, Australian Government. Read more…

Ask senior student to each choose one composer from the list in this AMC article and to summarise the main points. Students will then share their findings with the rest of the class (verbally or via a blog).

www.emusictheory.com/practice.html

Check out this website for free online aural music skill drills and notation practice for students.

MSO ENCOUNTER

This free website from Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers and interactive tour of the orchestra, using Stuart Greenbaum’s score “90 minutes”.

Explore the orchestra, the conductor, the score and the composer – a lesson or two worth of content – let your students explore and arrange the score.

WARNING: Won’t work on Mac computers

Ensembles for new school-leavers: A Note for Graduating Year 12 Students.

Do you play an instrument? Have you enjoyed playing in your school band/orchestra?

Perhaps, you might like to join a community music ensemble and continue to make music with your friends.

If so, have a look through the following list of websites and make some enquires as to which group might best suit your needs.

www.boroondarasymphonicband.com.au

www.graingerwindsymphony.asn.au roland.yeung@graingerwindsymphony.asn.au

www.westgateconcertband.com.au

www.monashphil.org (Band, Orchestra, auditioned Stage Band)

Frankston Symphony Orchestra & Mornington Peninsula Chorale www.frankstonmusicsociety.org.au

South Eastern Concert Band – look up on Facebook

South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra http://home.vicnet.net.au/~smso/

Manningham Concert Band http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mannband/

www.vbl.org.au/

Calls for Expression of Interest for Secondary School Music Ensembles
to Participate in a Unique Live Music Festival

Dear Music Teachers.
We wanted to pass this information on to you regarding calls for Interest for Music Groups to participate in The Royal Melbourne Hospital 2011 Secondary School Live Music Festival – 16 – 20 May. This Festival is open to all Secondary School Music Ensembles in Victoria. We have places for up to 10 ensembles a day over the five days.

All levels are welcome and all ensemble combinations. Places will be allocated on a first come basis. The festival also offers workshops in Music and Health and Music Therapy and there is an award with prizes. We look forward to hearing from you. The EOI process will close end of March 2011 or when we have reached our quota.  There is no registration fee.

Background on the Festival
In 2010 we launched our inaugural secondary school live music festival as part of the national Music Play for Life initiative ‘Making Music Being Well. Our festival is proudly supported by our generous patron Mrs Barbara Haynes. The first of its kind, the festival brought the healing and uplifting power of music to where it’s needed the most – inside the hospital’s walls.

“To play at the Royal Melbourne Hospital gave us the opportunity to share the world of music to the patients who may not have access to this. Hopefully we lit up someone’s day and made them smile through our music,” said Penny, a Year 11 student at Wesley College.

Judy Bartosy, Director of Music at Kew High School, said the students were all very excited about participating in the festival. “They’ve never done anything like this before and I thought it was good community activity for them to do.  The hospital’s live music festival ties in well with the school’s pastoral care and well-being programs,” she said.

The Secondary School Live Music Festival is now in its second year featuring the Haynes Music in Health Awards. These awards recognise excellence, understanding and sensitivity regarding the unique role music can play in health. The awards are divided into music ensemble categories.  All entries receive a certificate and the winners in each category receive a trophy and a donation to their school music program.

Last year’s festival attracted media attention and we believe we can make this festival even bigger.

How to register your interest

To register your interest please go to the Music therapy at the Royal Melbourne Hospital Website
http://www.rmh.mh.org.au/music-therapy/w1/i1001366/

Scroll to the Information about the festival and click on the registration button and fill in the appropriate fields.

For more details please contact the Artistic Director of the Festival – Music Therapy Manager Emma O’Brien on 9342 8304 or email emma.obrien@mh.org.au

Go to resource: EQ Australia (Education Quarterly Australia) is a print/online magazine for teachers, published by the Curriculum Corporation. Read more…

Go to resource: ESL through music (Canada) is a site that offers links to resources suitable for integrating music activities with ESL objectives.

Read more…

‘Face the Music: Which Way To Go‘ is an engaging education module aimed at both informing of, and developing empathy towards, student responsibilities as copyright users and owners. It is aimed at English and music students from years seven to ten.

After downloading the files, start with ‘face the music which way to go’.

Places are still available in the Arts Centre’s upcoming Finale 2011 notation training.

Where:                 The Arts Centre’s Digital Learning Hub

When:                  1 Apr 2011

Cost:                      $200

Presenter:          Amy Bennett

More info can be found at http://www.theartscentre.com.au/discover/education/event.aspx?id=2324

Go to resource: Finale NotePad is a downloadable program that introduces teachers and students to music notation software and is recommended for composition students. Read more…

A 5 minute video summary of a presentation given by Michael Griffen to students re. multiple intelligences.

http://www.screencast.com/users/mgriffin63/folders/Default/media/1f7632bc-d023-4602-9686-e4aadf9be1f1

FLAME AWARDS: This year’s theme is: ‘creative and engaging ways of delivering music education’. Entries are open to Primary and Secondary schools across Australia in 2011.

Visit the Flame Awards website for entry information

http://www.musicplayforlife.org/index.php/campaigns/flames

Due 22nd August, 2011.

Go to resource: Fleximusic Composer is a downloadable software program that allows students and teachers to record, mix, create, and edit compositions. Read more…

Bart Feller is a professor at the Juilliard School, is Principal Flute of

the New Jersey Symphony and plays with the New York City Opera.

He’s coming out in April for a recital, to give masterclasses and private

lessons. The main event is on Tuesday, April 10th (Easter Tuesday). So

this is great opportunity for your students and yourselves to come along

to hear an amazing player and teacher during the school holidays. PD certificates may be arranged.

For a copy of the brochure, email the following address:

flute.event@gmail.com

Kelly Williams

De La Salle College

The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music would like to invite your students and their parents to our Focus on Melbourne Conservatorium event.

The evening is an opportunity for students in Year 11 and 12 who are considering tertiary music study to find out about our undergraduate Bachelor of Music. It will be presented by our senior instrumental teachers and academics who will be able to provide important information about course content, specialisations, performance opportunities and auditions.

The event will be held from 7:00 until 8.30pm on Wednesday 8 June at Melba Hall, Royal Parade, University of Melbourne, Parkville.

To register please visit: http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/explore/events/archive/victoria/focus_on_music

Go to resource: Fortissimo!, written by Roy Bennett and published by Cambridge UP, covers musical concepts such as performing, composing, listening, analysing music. Read more…

To Celebrate the Release of Online Arranging lessons at http://www.learnmusicarranging.com

The Arranging Seminar is Free

Seminars for Music Teachers and Band Directors

Graham Lloyd will be Holding Professional Development Seminars at Yarra Glen June 16th and 17th 2011

Full of practical information, each 1/2 day seminar is suitable for Music Teachers and Band Directors

book now at http://www.grahamlloydmusic.com

Seminar topics – Tune up your Arranging. Concepts for any Ensemble

Intonation for Musicians not Mathematicians

Rehearsal “Nuts and Bolts” – using your precious rehearsal time effectively

Tune up your Conducting. Become even better at leading your ensemble

Great discounts for full day bookings, Even better discounts if you book both days

Full details and bookings at http://www.grahamlloydmusic.com

topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/music-performing-arts

This website offers dozens of free musical documentaries – from hip hop to jazz, from metal to latin. Plenty of lesson content here!

http://www.alfred.com/SC/BandResources.aspx

Free fingering charts for band instruments are found here.

A Secondary Music & Technology teacher is here sharing resources with the rest of us

http://musicteachntech.com/resources-and-lesson-plans/

Three upcoming free concerts that may be of interest for your staff and students:

Friday 25 May, 11:00am

Brass and Strings Ensemble Concert

Ideal for: Years 7 – 12

Duration: approx 70 minutes

Venue: Melba Hall, Royal Parade, Parkville

More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=365

Saturday 26 May, 7:30pm

Wind Symphony and String Ensemble Concert

Ideal for: Years 5 – 12

Duration: approx 75 minutes

Venue: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=363

Monday 28 May, 2:00pm

Percussion Ensembles Concert

Ideal for: Years 5 – 12

Duration: 50 minutes

Venue: Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank

More information: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=359

Bookings for the Friday and Monday concerts can be made through Anastasia – email rua@unimelb.edu.au or phone 03 8344 3673.

www.mtrs.co.uk/subscriptions/KS4.html

Lots of units of work (including audio tracks) for studying many topics, including film music with Year 7-8… 20th century composition with Year 11-12 … using GarageBand … atonal music … much more (free!)

Thanks to MTRS in UK for sharing

http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryindex.htm

A free website with comprehensive information on Music Theory.

HERE you can download Katie Wardrobe’s new e-book – it’s a book about free music resources on the internet. ENJOY!

A comprehensive source (online) for music theory information, suited to secondary students.

http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm

Dr Watson’s podcasts – a MASSIVE and free resource from an American lecturer in music, which has dozens of podcasts, many of which have free lesson guides and activity sheets attached. Topics include “what music means to me”, “repetition in music”, “bad boys in classical music”, “modality” …

THIS FREE RESOURCE is a powerpoint presentation of well over 100 slides. It comes from THIS website. THANKS!

Give students a copy of the powerpoint (perhaps edit it down a bit first). Ask them to create a timeline or their own powerpoint to show 60 years of Rock’n'Roll history.

On Thursday June 23rd Future Music will be running a FREE  PD session on the new PRO TOOLS 9.
This is an introduction to the new recording software which is now simpler to use and is much less expensive than before.

PRO TOOLS is an industry standard used in TV, movie and recording studios everywhere. The version for schools use has the same technology, but is appropriate for classroom particularly in a VCE and VET application, it can now be used directly with Sibelius.

The presenter for this PD is Peter Wardrobe from AVID, who will introduce you to the process in an easy to understand non technical form. We will record using MIDI and audio. Part of the session will take place in a professional recording  studio, where you can get up close to the real environment.

The session will finish around 6pm and we will round off with drinks and light refreshments. There is no charge for this session.

The address for this PD is:
BURWOOD MUSIC CENTRE
2a Florence St (off Huntingdale road)
Burwood.

RSVP is essential.
Please call JUDY on 9808 8988

dsmusic.com.au/resources/free-resources/

Print off a few of these FREE theory sheets (or give the link to your students) and let your students choose what to work on next lesson. Suits middle / upper secondary music students.

Here is a free lesson from Klerrisa Music re. Mashing Up 2 Bruno Mars songs which have the same chord progression.

If you sign up to the Klerrisa mailing list, you get free access to a dozen more free sample lessons (Middle school & Secondary).

George Garzone – Saxophone Workshop
Thursday 11th August, 7pm
@ Melbourne Brass & Woodwind Showrooms
578 North Road, Ormond VIC 3204

Cost: FREE!

Please reserve your place early, space is limited.
sales@ozwinds.com.au
or contact Nick Taylor Ph: 0402 776 495

http://cnx.org/content/col10363/latest/ “Understanding Basic Music Theory”

This course includes a review of common notation and an introduction to the physics behind music theory, as well as the basic concepts of music theory and a few slightly advanced but very useful topics, such as transposition.

Go to resource: Full Pitcher – Music for Special Needs (UK) provides links to information about implementing music programs and activities for students with disabilities.

Read more…

These guiding questions come from AYMC:

Go to resource: GarageBand is a downloadable software program by Apple that assists with music creation and podcasts. Read more…

http://www.generationsinjazz.com.au/

Music, Competitions and James Morrison – in South Australia

Manhattan School of Music has instituted a groundbreaking distance learning program — the first of its kind at a major conservatory — devoted to exploring the use of state-of-the-art videoconference technology for music education and performance.

Use the internet to take 50 minute classes with your students, or to undertake professional learning for yourself / your community.

Go to resource: Good Ear is a free online aural training program that covers basic aural requirements such as recognition of intervals, chords and cadences.

Read more…

Go to resource: Goran Bregovic – Tales & Songs for Weddings & Funerals education kit is provided through the Melbourne International Arts Festival site, and was performed at the festival in 2008. Read more…

Do you have outstanding Year 12 woodwind, brass, percussion or string bass players in your school?

Expand their horizons and pass this information on to them today! Applications close next Friday, August 12th!

The Grainger Wind Symphony Young Players Scholarship

The Grainger Wind Symphony Young Players Scholarship is an annual scholarship open to young woodwind, brass, percussion and string bass players. The scholarship seeks to encourage talented young musicians to pursue their interest in wind music beyond secondary school. By raising awareness of the strong community music scene in Melbourne, the Grainger Wind Symphony hopes to engage a whole new generation of musicians in this proud tradition.

Opportunities for your students

Every music teacher hopes to instill in their students a love of music that is carried beyond the boundaries of school life. Why not give your students the very best of opportunities and help them carry their passion forward into post-secondary school life? The Grainger Wind Symphony Young Players Scholarship is the ideal platform for your high-achieving students to practise performing their program before a panel, become accustomed to the audition process and receive feedback on their performance, whilst encouraging them to continue pursuing music beyond secondary school.

Opportunities for your school

Each successful applicant will perform a solo work in one of Grainger Wind Symphony’s upcoming concerts. To help support the school that supported them, we will provide 25 tickets to their secondary school. What better way is there to engage your up-and-coming players and reignite their passion in music than seeing someone they look up to performing alongside a top ensemble?

For more information, please visit our website at www.graingerwindsymphony.asn.au

Go to resource: Great Relief Senior, published by Noteable, is a set of self-taught lessons suitable for senior students. Read more…

http://grooveshark.com/

A free service (blocked to many students, but usually available to teachers) whereby you can listen to and playlist thousands of songs for free, while you are online.

Download is not possible (nor would it be ethical!).

Not a complete repertoire as yet – for instance you won’t find music of the recent Royal Wedding, or anything from the “Black Arm Band”.

You WILL find many indigenous / Aboriginal artists on GrooveShark: Gurrumul Yunupingu, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, didgeridoo music, “Rough Guide to Australia Aboriginal Music”, Saltwater Band, Yothu Yindi …

Curated and organised by dedicated experimental instrument builders Rod Cooper, John Jacobs and Ben Kolaitis, the Hmm… festival celebrates all things handmade in contemporary experimental instrument building and design.

With talks, workshops, performances, makers market and installations Hmm… will showcase unconventional and surprising sound devices from circuit bent toys, handcrafted resonators, hacked TV’s pirate transmitters and fruit controlled synthesizers!

The festival will feature installations and performances from a diverse line-up of renound local, interstate and international experimental sound artists.

Attention Music Teachers and Pianists!

There are still some places left to play in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Hands On Harpsichord and Fortepiano day on Saturday 19 March – pianists and piano students of all ages are very welcome to attend.

WHEN: Saturday 19 March, 10:00am – 3:00pm
WHERE: Melba Hall, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Gate 12, The University of Melbourne, Royal Parade, Parkville
COST: Free
CONTACT: Anastasia Russell-Head – rua@unimelb.edu.au or 8344 3673

‘Hearts in Harmony’ – a ‘fun’tastic community music day for all ages at ACU in Fitzroy, presented by the School of Education, Australian Catholic University (ACU).

This day is open to all ages, backgrounds and abilities – no musical experience is required. Join Jon Madin, Geelong’s local teacher/composer/instrument inventor and play some of his wonderful and wacky instruments such as marimbas, echo cellos, shaker rings and musical bikes.

Go to resource: HotChalk (USA) is a site that offers lesson plans, grouped according to different disciplines and age ranges, including music. Read more…

Go to resource: Music for Years 11 to 12 (NSW) is published by the Department of Education and Training NSW.

Read more…

Use SoundCloud and blogging to give students feedback on recorded performances / compositions. Read more HERE.

ABC Classic FM is re-broadcasting Andres Ford’s series on 20th century music (Illegal Harmonies) at 9.05am on January mornings …. or you can listen to podcasts HERE.

If you use a Mac computer, download a program (free) called Flip4Mac, then download the podcasts from the “Windows Media” links (which are .asx files).

Go to resource: Improvisation and Conducting from a Dalcroze Workshop in Thailand 2008, run by Sandra Nash, demonstrates Dalcroze music and movement activities for music students of different stages. Read more…

Go to resource: in2arts is run by Arts Queensland, and is a search engine that provides links to arts for children in Queensland. Read more…

THIS YouTube channel of Australian Art Orchestra shows interplay between Indigenous Australian singers and musicians from the Australian Art Orchestra. Play video/s to students and ask them to compare the treatment of melody/pitch and duration/rhythm. Which aspects are similar, different and interesting? When both groups play together, which aspects of music create unity? How is the fusion of the two groups achieved?

Indigenous Musicians get to POP!

Thanks to funding received through Arts Victoria’s Community Partnerships, Cultural Infusion is proud to present I.P.O.P. (Indigenous People Out Performing). An exciting new initiative for Melbourne’s emerging Indigenous musicians there will be three sets of workshops delivered during this year focusing on exciting public outcomes.

Up and coming Indigenous musicians who are selected for the program will be given a special opportunity to explore their creative ideas and develop them into polished, recordable tracks. Participants are encouraged to make the most of the free recording sessions and performance opportunities, where they will be able to showcase their song to a wider audience. Guiding them through musical elements ranging from song writing, music production to performance skills is acclaimed Indigenous musician, Joe Geia.

Joe Geia is a renowned singer-songwriter who composed the iconic album Yil Lull from which songs have been re-recorded by the likes of Paul Kelly, Archie Roach and Jimmy Barnes. Hailing from North Queensland, Geia is of Murri Aboriginal heritage. His first album Yil Lull, released in 1988, received widespread critical acclaim and speaks volumes on our national identity.

Places in these workshop series are based on the merit of applicants. Applications are still open for the next series of workshops starting Tuesday 17th May 2011 from 6pm – 8pm. These workshops are running with the support of The Gathering Place in Maribrynong and will be delivered at the phoenix youth Centre in Footscray with the final performance being part of the Indigenous Youth Forum at The Gathering Place on the 24th June.

For more information and an application form please:
Email: info@culturalinfusion.org.au

Go to resource: Instrument Bingo, written by Cheryl Lavender and published by Jenson Publications, combines musical knowledge with the game of bingo. Read more…

Go to resource:  Instrumental Music Teaching Resource was written by Amanda R Watson and published by the Australian Society for Music Education.

Read more…

The ‘International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition 2011’ is a worldwide composition competition. The competition is administered by the National Academy of Music, a public educational charity of the State of Colorado, and organized by the Secretariat of the International Music Prizes™ in Greece.

Entries are due October 1st, 2011.

more information click here

The goal of this competition is to stimulate composers of all ages and nationalities to write new, high-quality music for educational purposes and motivate highly talented composers to persist in building a career in composition by rewarding them with recognition and honor. Winners’ names will be available online after December 10, 2011.

click here for more information

International Music Prize for Performance, 2011. Applications are accepted from soloists and ensembles.

blog link – a frequently updated blog of ideas on how to use iPad (and other technology) in Music Education

http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/seymour_ipads_team_up_with_waterbury_symphony_orchestra/

This newspaper article talks about composing music for student iPads, to be played with a professional orchestra!

Here are some iPad (and iPhone) apps, either free or inexpensive, which I can see being useful for secondary music teachers…

PIANO IN A FLASH APP : chord charts

FLASH MUSIC: flash cards for a few basic instruments
Year 7 intro and revision
Beginner Guitar : Marty YouTube clips and sign up for access to 900 lessons
Classical 1: famous excerpts from 100+ famous classical tunes
Year 9&10 trivia and guess
MSO learn : Take Your Seat
Year 7: highlights each section within Grainger work, play entire work first then highlight each section, take notes on preprinted book while working through each instrument
Classical Guitar: experiment with simple cord progressions with common
chords year 8&9&10
Touch music : explore the power of rhythm by changing only rhythm of famous songs
Year 7&8 guess the song with random taps
Thum Drum : mostly novelty
Teach Question and Answer with two students year 7&8
Melody Com : composes with rhythm blocks
Year 7&8&9&10 to intro composition
Music Tool : plays diff chords and shows circle of fifths
Year 9&10 aural chords
Guitar lick of the day: advanced guitarists
1 on 1
Key Wiz: find note name or keyboard note for one or both staves , requires a little setup
Year 7&8 extension individually
Flash cards: has fifty plus music definitions
Guess, write, check
Karajan Beginner: aural tests
year 9&10 chord types and intervals
WI orchestra
Year 7 compose & learn about orch timbres

Rhythm Cat

Middle School: learning to tap basic rhythms

Read the article HERE

http://ht.ly/90dQh

A new edition of Practical Technology for Music Education has been created and is in the iBookstore textbook format.  The new book contains a number of new chapters, more links, and some interactive features (mainly as an attempt to see how those features work).  The book is currently under review by Apple, and when it is released, a link to the book will be provided.  The price of the enhanced and expanded first edition will be $4.99.

Part way down the page of Mustech Wiki you’ll find a long list of resources for Interactive Whiteboards in Music education.

Go to resource: Jam Hub by Intelliware is for electronic instruments, and is useful for rock band rehearsing in the classroom. Read more…

Monash University
School of Music – Conservatorium
Jazz & Popular Studies Audition Preparation
Two Day Short Course

This course will include performance and ensemble processes
that will assist in the building of skills that focus on attaining the
standards of the audition requirements.

2 x 5-hour Sessions
Cost: $220.00

Staffed by:
Robert Burke
Paul Williamson
Jordan Murray
Stephen Magnusson
Tony Floyd
Michelle Nicole

Schedule:
Thursday 29th September 2011         10.00am – 3.00pm
Friday 30th September 2011              10.00am – 3.00pm
For further information please refer to www.arts.monash.edu.au/music/jazz-composition

Email: music@arts.monash.edu for an application form.

dozens of interviews with Jazz musicians

http://www.jazzandbeyond.com.au/interview.html

The Jacam Manricks Quartet (New York and Aus) in Masterclass is on this Monday the 30th of May starting at 6pm.

If you have any BASS, DRUMS, PIANO and SAXOPHONE students who might be interested in playing jazz and traveling the world for gigs and study, or you yourself would be interested, this is an evening not to be missed!

The masterclasses will not only be a source of great information but also of great inspiration, as some of the finest players in the world take the stage to explain and demonstrate how they do what they do, give you some food for thought, tips on practice & playing and wow you with their musicianship and skill.

There are still some spots available so please email Nick Wilkins to book your place

More details can be found on www.wilkomusic.com

Jersey Boys (the musical) has compiled free, high quality lesson plans for teachers. The resource includes lesson content for Drama, Music, English, Art, Dance and History.

Go to resource: Midnight Music and Katie Wardrobe run workshops for teachers who want to integrate computers with Music education.  She also offers workshops to students.

KET – this website provides free Music lesson plans for 5-18 year olds. NOTE: Some of the content requires additional KET resources (videos).

Go to resource: Kiravanu is an opera written by James Humberstone and Mary Elizabeth, specifically designed for children and integrated with the curriculum. Read more…

Kita Performing Arts Company is an ensemble based in Melbourne and operates throughout Victoria to present traditional and contemporary Asian music and dance. Read more…

Tim Sherlock is a renowned choral conductor, composer and teacher in Brisbane. He regularly teaches at the January Kodaly Summer schools. His interest is in composing and arranging for choral ensembles and his works are in great demand by children’s, youth and adult choirs. There will be a choral reading session during the weekend of some of Tim’s music. He will also give a special workshop on composition for Year 11 students preparing for the HSC.

Enquiries can be directed to Inge Southcott via email: ingesinger@bigpond.com

The Sydney Symphony, in association with Credit Suisse would like to extend a special invitation to schools to attend

Lang Lang Piano Masterclass
Thursday 9 June, 2011 5:30 p.m.
Sydney Opera House , Concert Hall

Experience and learn from the phenomenal and prodigious Lang Lang as he guides three talented young musicians during this one hour master class.

Information

Ideal for young pianists and elective music students.

Listen to the  ABC podcast (listen here) of ‘Golden Fur’ – a Melbourne Trio playing “Parallel Collisions” at a live concert.

As the music is playing, ask students for suggestions re. what instruments are being played … and in what manner! There are many really unusual techniques employed in this piece.

Students with access to the internet can then create a Word or OneNote page with information on the trio ‘Golden Fur’ (use Google and www.goldenfur.com.au) and the way in which they play traditional instruments in a contemporary way.

Finally, create a group composition or soundscape which uses unusual techniques of playing classroom instruments. HAVE FUN!!

PS Feel free to record the class creation and email it to schools.mpfl@mca.org.au

wrightstuffmusic.com/in-the-classroom/making-music-fun/

Wright Stuff Music offers a list of links for fun online music activities (K-12)

VCE Music teachers – do you have a request for a live performance of Australian works?

Fed Square and Patma Music (http://www.patmamusic.org.au/patma.html) will present a new education series in 2012, with a focus on Australian music.

Please e-mail me directly if you would like to hear any particular compositions in live performance (pre-1910 and/or twentieth-century Australian music).
cindy.thomas@fedsquare.com

Concerts will be held in May and September 2012, and will be supported with teacher resources.  Feel free to send me any comments or suggestions for programming to suit your students’ needs.

Regards, Cindy Thomas
Cindy Thomas | Fed Square Pty Ltd
Program Manager – Education

Audio Production and MIDI Sequencing in Logic Pro 9

To register or for more information contact the Short Course Team on 03 9919 1932

COURSE CODE: MA3
DURATION: 3hrs per weeknight for 6 Weeks
COST: $410 inc GST
LOCATION: Music Department, Footscray Nicholson Campus

COURSE DATES AVAILABLE:

• 27 April, 4, 11, 18, 25 May, 1 June (2011)

Go to resource: Logic Studio by Apple is a software program that enables music recording, editing, mixing, and performance. Read more…

Have you signed up yet to be part of Making Music Being Well?

This national initiative, which takes place from 16 – 22 May, is a collaboration between
Music: Play for Life and the Australian Music Therapy Association and it’s all about a grassroots celebration of the links between music making and wellbeing.

When you register to participate – it’s FREE – we’ll send you event posters, stickers and brochures and you’ll get access to lots of downloadable resources including event planning and promotional tips.

How you participate is up to you.  The best way to be involved is to take something you may already have planned for that week and hitch it to the national wagon of Making Music Being Well 2011. You don’t have to do something on every day during the week – one event is enough. Your event will be outlined on the MMBW website and you and your group members or students will be helping to shine the national spotlight on an important fact: music is good for you!

Here are a few ideas based on previous years:

• Open the doors to the community for your rehearsal that falls within the MMBW week and turn it into a free performance.
• Take your choir or group to a nursing home, hospital or school.
• Organise a big sing at your workplace.
• Turn a school assembly into a musical celebration and tell students and parents about the value and benefits of making music.
• Convene a drum circle in your school playground.
• Run an open mic session at your local pub or club.
• Organise a gathering of community music leaders and organisers in your area and discuss how you could pool resources and share skills.

Register to be part of it at www.makingmusicbeingwell.org.au

Don’t forget – registration for our biggest school music initiative, Music: Count Us In, opens soon too!

Have you signed up yet to be part of Making Music Being Well?

This national initiative, which takes place from 16 – 22 May, is a collaboration between Music: Play for Life and the Australian Music Therapy Association and it’s all about a grassroots celebration of the links between music making and wellbeing.

When you register to participate – it’s FREE – we’ll send you event posters, stickers and brochures and you’ll get access to lots of downloadable resources including event planning and promotional tips. How you participate is up to you.

The best way to be involved is to take something you may already have planned for that week and hitch it to the national wagon of Making Music Being Well 2011. You don’t have to do something on every day during the week – one event is enough. Your event will be outlined on the MMBW website and you and your group members or students will be helping to shine the national spotlight on an important fact: music is good for you!

Here are a few ideas based on previous years: Open the doors to the community for your rehearsal that falls within the MMBW week and turn it into a free performance. Take your choir or group to a nursing home, hospital or school. Organise a big sing at your workplace. Turn a school assembly into a musical celebration and tell students and parents about the value and benefits of making music. Convene a drum circle in your school playground. Run an open mic session at your local pub or club. Organise a gathering of community music leaders and organisers in your area and discuss how you could pool resources and share skills.

Register to be part of it at www.makingmusicbeingwell.org.au

AND … don’t forget – registration for our biggest school music initiative, Music: Count Us In, opens soon too!

This national initiative, which takes place from 16 – 22 May, is a collaboration between
Music: Play for Life and the Australian Music Therapy Association and it’s all about a grassroots celebration of the links between music making and wellbeing.

When you register to participate – it’s FREE – we’ll send you event posters, stickers and brochures and you’ll get access to lots of downloadable resources including event planning and promotional tips.

How you participate is up to you.  The best way to be involved is to take something you may already have planned for that week and hitch it to the national wagon of Making Music Being Well 2011. You don’t have to do something on every day during the week – one event is enough. Your event will be outlined on the MMBW website and you and your group members or students will be helping to shine the national spotlight on an important fact: music is good for you!

Here are a few ideas based on previous years:

• Open the doors to the community for your rehearsal that falls within the MMBW week and turn it into a free performance.
• Take your choir or group to a nursing home, hospital or school.
• Organise a big sing at your workplace.
• Turn a school assembly into a musical celebration and tell students and parents about the value and benefits of making music.
• Convene a drum circle in your school playground.
• Run an open mic session at your local pub or club.
• Organise a gathering of community music leaders and organisers in your area and discuss how you could pool resources and share skills.

Register to be part of it at www.makingmusicbeingwell.org.au

Applications for the 2012 Margaret Schofield Scholarship are now open until Monday 31 October 2011.

For information regarding the Scholarship:

www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/excellenceawards/schofield_award.html

Enquiries:

Carole Lander
Manager, Information Services
VCAA
Phone 03 9651-4328
lander.carole.c@edumail.vic.gov.au

Ann Lierse has shared a list of repertoire used by boys during Year 9 and 10 massed choral lessons at Melbourne High School (2010). Many thanks for sharing, Ann!

Sample of repertoire for Massed Singing

Night and Day – Cole Porter                          Thriller – Michael Jackson

Don’t dream its over – Neill Finn                   Dancing in the storm – Boom Crash

The Rain – Kassey Chambers                         Africa – Toto

At the end of the day – Schonberg                 All Night, All day – Traditional

All that Jazz – John Kanter                            The Vagabond – Vaughan Williams

Oh Pretty Women – Roy Orbison                 All that Jazz – John Kanter

Bridge over troubled water – Paul Simon       Violet Hill – Coldplay

Foxy Lady – Hendrix                                      The Ballad of Swiney Todd – Sondheim

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Derek Sharon           Orpheus Lament – Gluck

Selections from Pirates of Penzance – Gilbert and Sullivan

Nessum Dorma – Puccini                               Finlandia – Sibelius

Pilgrim’s Chorus – Wagner                             Requiem – Mozart

Carmina Burina – Orff                                    Les Miserables – Schoenberg

Chorus of the Hewbrew Slaves – Verdi          A Tribute to Foster – Grainger

Officer Krurpke – Bernstein                           The Masochism Tango – Lehrer

Minister Garrett has given the green light for Music: Count Us In 2012 and he has committed four years of funding!

This year’s culminating day is Thursday, 1st November.

Want to have more than half a million Australians sing YOUR song?  Write a song that’s catchy, optimistic and upbeat and yours could be the Song That Stops Australia for Music: Count Us In 2012.

You will receive a $1000 fee for use of your song in the program and a high-profile Australian performer will record it and visit your school. As the Program Songwriter you will also attend one of the culminating media events, all expenses paid.

You may work on your own, with co-writer/s or even write a song as a whole class exercise.

But you must work quickly, because we need your submission by 5.00 pm Friday, 25th May.

Download the brief here.

Medea: Sasha Waltz and guests was a work performed at the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival. Read more…

In September 24-28 we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary Melbourne

International Festival of Brass.

We are selling full passes for secondary students for only $150 which will

enable them to bring their instrument and be involved in warm up sessions,

masterclasses, recitals and seminars with some of the worlds very best

brass players. These events will be at the Australian National Academy of

Music in South Melbourne.

Artists include; Mnozil Brass (Ensemble – Austria), Oystein Baadsvik (Tuba

- Norway), Wycliffe Gordon (Trombone – USA), Radovan Vlatkovic (Horn -

Croatia), Rex Richardson (Trumpet – USA), James Morrison, Australian Brass

Quintet and Ross Irwin Invitational All Star Big Band.

For all tickets and information go to www.mifb.com.au

Join us at www.facebook/brassfest

CONTACT: Sam Cooke, Festival Administrator - Sam.Cooke@allansbillyhyde.com.au

REGISTRATION: 27 April – 11 May 2012

DESCRIPTION: Melbourne School Bands and Strings Festival

Wednesday 8 – Saturday 25 August 2012

The MSBSF is one of Australia’s biggest and most prestigious events for school musicians, with over 8,000 students from metropolitan Melbourne, country Victoria and interstate participating each year. Commencing in 1989 with just over 20 bands, the festival has grown to include an enormous 240 concert bands, jazz ensembles and string groups. It aims to support music education for school students, and provides schools with the opportunity to work with a leading international educator as Chief Adjudicator.

The festival format consists of three basic activities. Ensembles perform works from prescribed music lists with educational focus that allow students to experience music composed specifically for this idiom. The students also partake in listening to other groups within their section perform, and take part  in a tutorial activity best suited to their category and experience. As well as a performance goal for ensembles, the festival also provides professional development opportunities and an experience to perform in one of Melbourne’s finest performance venues, Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University. In 2012, the festival will take place from 8 to 25 August with an exciting gala concert on the final night. We warmly extend the invitation to all members of the public to attend the sessions and gala concert. More information can be found on our website www.allansbillyhyde.com.au

This June the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will open the doors of the Melbourne Town Hall to over 10,000 school students, parents and teachers for the Orchestra’s Education Week – a week solely dedicated to  sharing the joy of music-making through the first-hand experience of live orchestral music.

Across five days, the Orchestra will present 13 concerts for audiences of all ages, including a full spectrum of interactive and educational concerts for school students. From Classic Kids with best-selling children’s entertainer and movie star, Jay Laga’aia, right through to Ears Wide Open with eminent Music Educator, Richard Gill, there really is something for everyone.

Following his innovative concert presentations with the MSO in 2011, UK music educator, Paul Rissmann, will return to Melbourne to host Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music, two stimulating age-specific programs which offer insight into great orchestral repertoire. Paul has devised and led projects for the BBC Proms, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Conducted by the MSO’s Associate Conductor, Benjamin Northey, Meet the Music, for secondary school students, will dissect some of the biggest symphonic scandals in history. It will also feature the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, saxophonist, Nicholas Russoniello, who will be appearing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the very first time.

Meet the Orchestra, for primary school students, will feature works themed around musical ‘Heroes and Rogues’ and include another of Paul’s signature audience participation pieces (for many, a highlight of last year’s program).

Comprehensive teaching resources have been created for Meet the Orchestra and Meet the Music, and are available for download on the MSO website. Additionally, primary school teachers booking into Meet the Orchestra are invited to join Paul Rissmann for a day of Professional Development – specially created to cater for primary school music teachers and generalist teachers with limited musical knowledge – on Friday 1 June 2012. Bookings for this VIT-registered PD can be made by calling 03 9626 1198.

Concert tickets for students are available for as little as $10 ($8 for Classic Kids) and teachers attend all Education Week concerts for free. For more information, please phone the MSO Education Department on 9626 1198 or visit www.mso.com.au and follow the tabs to Education Week.

The inaugural Melbourne Conservatorium Guitar Day is open to secondary school students.

Featuring:

• masterclass opportunities
• ensemble practice
• tuition from staff and top students from the Conservatorium
• a special workshop on Brazilian guitar music
• the opportunity to perform in a twilight concert in Melba Hall

This is a day not to be missed for the serious guitar student!

WHEN: Saturday 18 June, 2:00pm – 7:30pm (twilight concert commences at 6:30)
WHERE: Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Gate 12, Royal Parade, The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
HOW MUCH: $40 per student (teachers $20 to observe)
PRE-REQUISITES: AMEB Grade 4 standard or above (or equivalent). Music reading ability essential.

INFORMATION & ENROLMENTS: http://www.conservatorium.unimelb.edu.au/programs/youth/guitar

Of particular interest to Music Educators will be the Australian debut of Sun Rings presented by The Kronos Quartet – an artistic commission by NASA that is an amalgam of chamber music, hypnotic visuals and sounds of deep space as recorded by the Voyager spacecraft.
The Festival provides opportunities for schools to engage with the arts and supports teachers with free educational resource packs to use in the classroom. If you book as a secondary school group then tickets are just $15 per student, with one free teacher ticket with every 10 students attending.

There are also a variety of fantastic free events to be enjoyed by all ages including Angels-Demons. Parade  and Cacophony: The Art of Conflict.

To download a copy of the Secondary Schools Brochure, Booking Form and Education Resource Packs visit melbournefestival.com/education<http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/education> .

Go to resource: The Melbourne International Arts Festival is held in October each year. Read more…

WWW.MELBOURNERECITAL.COM.AU

The Melbourne Recital Centre offers many concerts & events (some free) to suit Secondary School Music students.

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
Cnr Southbank Blvd & Sturt Street, Southbank
Box Office: 03 9699 3333

MaryRose Harrison
Education Co-ordinator
T:    +61 (0)3 9207 2631
M:    0413 863 552
E:    maryrose.harrison@melbournerecital.com.au

Go to resource: The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is a professional orchestra and offers education programs to schools. Read more…

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra offers a spectrum of concerts for school students, designed to inspire active participation in music. All the information is now available on the MSO’s website, along with downloadable booking forms and the 2012 concert diary; schools will also receive a MSO Education and Community Outreach brochure at the start of Term 1, 2012. If you have further questions please contact 03 9626 1198, or email education@mso.com.au

Go to resource: Melbourne Youth Music (MYM) offers programs and performances to children and young people. Read more…

Go to resource: Melody Bingo, written by Cheryl Lavender and published by Jenson Publications, combines aural skills with the game of bingo. Read more…

Fantastic PD opportunity!
Come & watch the engaging, energetic, charismatic Mike Brewer (UK) working with secondary school choirs
Thursday March 10th at BMW Edge from 10-5pm with an evening concert 6:30pm-7:30pm
Place are limited & PDcertificate will be provided for VIT
$100 for the day – cheaper than flying to London.
Don’t miss out – contact Claire Preston at exaudiyouthchoir@gmail.com

Go to resource: Mind Matters is a national health initiative for secondary schools funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Read more…

Apple computer users love GarageBand software for making music.

Non-Apple users might like “Mixcraft” for recording, editing and looping music.

www.acoustica.com/mixcraft/

MoMu - This paper discusses an open source platform for creating Music on iPhones, as created at Stanford University.

School of Music – Conservatorium
Information night for prospective students, parents and music teachers.

The information night will inform prospective students and music teachers about the BMus, double degrees and postgraduate courses. Perfomance
and musicologists/ethnomsicologists will be present to answer any questions about the course structure and oportunities offered.

Open to year 10 – 12 students and mature age students.
Tuesday 23 August from 7.30 pm
Music Auditorium (next to Robert Blackwood Hall)
Building 68, Clayton Campus

For bookings and inquiries
Email: music@arts.monash.edu

A FREE online tool to help teachers/parents get MORE music in Australian schools.

http://moremusictoolkit.org.au/

Just launched – check it out!

Includes case studies from award-winning Australian schools, as well as practical advice on overcoming potential hurdles.

Go to resource: More Than Opera (Victoria) is a Melbourne-based ensemble that aims to provide accessibility to opera.

Read more…

6^th Annual Mornington Peninsula Choral Festival – “Harmonies Unite”

This unique event is a celebration of choral singing on the Mornington Peninsula.

There are five events taking place in the beautiful surrounds of Toorak College and The Peninsula School, Mt Eliza.

Festival Day – featuring Community, Church and School Choirs.

Saturday 2 June, 2.00-5.00 pm in the Toorak College Music Centre and other venues.

Adults – $12; concession – $6; children – free.

Refreshments will be available.

“Let’s Sing” Concerts for School Choirs

Monday 28 May, Tuesday 29 May, Wednesday 30 May  and Thursday 31 May- 7.00 – 9.00 pm in The Ansett Hall, The Peninsula School.

Adults and concession- $6; children free

For more information phone – Sue Gilbert at the Peninsula School – 9788 7839 or email – sgilbert@tps.vic.edu.au

Watch this YOUTUBE CLIP of the MozART Group from Poland. It is an entertaining collage of Classical String Quartets re-interpreted

Now choose a Classical piece of music (Google search for the Classical Top 100) or nursery rhyme and change it drastically … into pop, funk, country, metal, etc. You may wish to write lyrics to go with the Classical melody.       OR

Choose a piece of pop music and arrange it for a classical ensemble. Start by putting the vocal line into an instrument, then find chords to go underneath.

HINT: Google search for the song name + free + midi. You may well be able to save a midi file from the internet, which will open in Finale / Audacity / Sibelius, etc.

CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION:

The Musical Society of Victoria will hold a Chamber Music competitions for instrumental groups of up to six people on Sunday May 20^th at Ewing Memorial Uniting Church, EAST MALVERN at 2.30 p.m.

Entries close on May 4^th.  Further details are available on our website: www.msv.org.au under AWARDS/Chamber Music.

Or contact the General Secretary on 03 9509 7767

The Music Technology in Education Conference (mtec2011) will take place on 11-13 April 2011 at MLC School in Burwood, (Sydney) NSW.

Go to the website at www.mtec2011.com for regularly updated information on sessions and presenters, travel and accommodation, times, and other details to help you plan your attendance.

Go to resource: Music Teacher Resource Site (UK) MTRS is a free website designed for UK Music teachers – lots of free lesson plans and online resources

Go to resource: Multicultural Perspectives in Music is a NSW Department of Education and Training site, and a collaboration between the NSW Creative Arts Unit, Musica Viva Australia, and Sirocco. Read more…

MuseScoreTips - MuseScore is free software for music notation – this site gives tutorials, shortcuts and tips

Read this article as a class (HERE) . Discuss the implications of the article (ie. beware what you listen to, as it can change your view on the world). Brainstorm a list of bands / composers that make students feel happy, and another list that brings your mood down.

HERE is some free advice on being a musician in 2012 – from the Music Career wiki.

Watch this space – the teaching kit for Music Count Us In 2011 is coming soon. It’s full of free ideas to enhance music education delivery in your school, including cross-curricular lesson ideas. Many free ensemble charts are already on the website www.musiccountusin.org.au . Don’t be scared of signing up – it’s really easy!

Go to resource: Music Education at About.com (USA) is a listing of lesson plans submitted by teachers and endorsed by academics. Read more…

Go to resource: Music in Action is a magazine published by the Australian Music Association. Read more…

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/21/drumskool-the-music-lesso_n_1369161.html?ref=tw

Read this article about how Drumskool in the UK (ages 5-18) is even reducing crime.

Watch these videos with your students. They aim to inform kids of the work that goes into creating & recording Australian pop songs. The underlying message is that we should purchase music rather than copy music.

A cute 4 minute video to share with any year level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAY1UoQYMHk

After watching the movie, ask your class to create some more musical artwork.

Go to resource: Music Skills for Classroom Teachers, by Robert Winslow, Shelley Wiest and Leon Dallin, is published by McGraw Hill, Boston, 2001. Read more…

MYM is seeking more males aged 15-30 for it’s Summer School in Musical Theatre (16-20 January, 2012). For more info, visit www.mym.org.au or call 03 9376 8988.

Do you have any students who need extra help or coaching for their theory exam?
… practice written theory exams for grades 1,2,3 and 4 theory students
(Grade 5 students can be accommodated depending on vacancies).

There are sessions available on Saturday 13th and Saturday 20th August 2011 and will be held in Mt Eliza.
Group sessions commence at 10am and 2pm and normal theory exam length will apply.
Papers will be supplied, marked and commented on for improvement
Costs are Grade 1 – $30, Grade 2 – $35, Grade 3 – $40 and Grade 4 – $45c
These sessions have previously been an enormous help for teachers who don’t have the necessary time
They are conducted by fully qualified piano teachers lead by Bev Woodford

If interested please email Bev Woodford on
bev@myacn.net.au

View original manuscripts from centuries of famous composers – free and and online.

lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html

Go to resource: Music. Count Us In is a music advocacy event that draws attention to the value of music education in schools. Read more…

On April 12th 2011, a dozen talented teenage singer-songwriters were mentored by John Foreman, Claire Bowditch, Holly Throsby,  Rai Thistlethwayte (Thirsty Merc) and Kavyen Temperley (Eskimo Joe).

The result was the 2011 song for Music. Count Us In (1st September 2011).

Watch this space for free lesson plans, free MP3 material, free Professional Development (for teachers) and free instrumental arrangements. Let’s get more music in more Australian schools!! www.musiccountusin.org.au

http://www.musiccountusin.org.au/

This year’s program song is about to hit the air-waves. Registration is being accepted by schools for the 2011 massed singing event on September 1st, 2011 @ 11.30am (AEST).

Associated free lesson plans, teaching kits, free MP3, sheet music, and instrumental arrangements will soon be available via the website.

Signing up via the website is free and easy!! http://www.musiccountusin.org.au/

Go to resource: Musica Viva provides around 2500 professional music concerts to venues across Australia.

Read more…

free podcasts – Musica Viva held a discussion forum in February 2011 on the topic of Arts Education in Australia. They recorded the sessions and have made them available online as a 4-part podcast. Click on the arrow on the far right of each clip to download it (for later listening) OR listen online to each podcast.

www.musicatschool.co.uk is a free website of Secondary Music teaching ideas, lesson plans and worksheets from UK Music teachers.

For example, here is a worksheet for Year 7’s learning about how orchestral players are seated:

http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/year_7/Instruments_sheets/layout_worksheet.PDF

Soon to be launched is a wiki for advice and information regarding careers in the music industry – a portal and source of information to help music people, especially artists, develop their careers.

musiccareer.com.au

Musiclopedia – an A to Z directory of websites re. Music Genres, Recording Artists, Orchestras etc.

Go to resource

MusicTheory.net offers lessons on music theory, aural training, and other tools such as chord calculators. Read more…

Melbourne Youth Music’s 2012 Summer School, running from Monday 16 – Saturday 21 January at the Victorian College of the Arts, offers four separate bands, conducted by Monte Mumford, Stephen Hardie, Amy Wert and Tanya Bethune.  Join Summer School Artistic Director Andrew Mott for an intensive week of exciting music, new friends and great fun!  We still have vacancies in all bands, particularly bassoons and low brass. For more info: www.mym.org.au or phone 03 9376 8988.

Melbourne Youth Music is currently calling for expressions of interest from school and community ensembles who wish to be considered for inclusion in MYM’s 2012 Bands Festival.  The MYM Bands Festival began in 2005 and has since then grown to become one of the premier performance opportunities for bands in Melbourne.  The Festival is a non-competitive and non-graded event designed to celebrate banding in Melbourne with concert bands, jazz ensembles and also brass bands of all standards encouraged to perform.  During the course of each festival we welcome more than 600 performers on stage from across Regional and Metropolitan Victoria.  One of the best parts of this event is seeing students and teaching colleagues observe and support each other so attentively in rehearsal and performance.

In 2012, the MYM Bands Festival will again be held at the spectacular BMW Edge Federation Square, and is proudly presented by MYM in partnership with Fed Ed!, Federation Square’s Education Program.  For those who have taken part before, please note that due to availability of venue, the festival has moved one week later to fall on the first weekend in June.

2012 MYM Bands Festival Performances:

CONCERT 1  |  Saturday 2 June, 1:00pm

CONCERT 2  |  Saturday 2 June, 7:00pm

CONCERT 3  |  Sunday 3 June, 12:00pm

CONCERT 4  |  Sunday 3 June, 5:00pm

Each concert has a duration of 2 hours and will feature four bands.

Participation is free – if you would like to take part, please email MYM as soon as possible with some brief details of your band along with any special requirements you may have.  For ease of scheduling, please indicate a 1st and 2nd preference for concert performance dates and times from the information provided.  Once groups are finalised, they will issue a draft schedule for the festival which will allow each ensemble a 20 minute sound check ahead of their allocated performance.  Please be aware that each ensemble will need to provide at least one stage hand to setup the stage for their requirements, who will be assisted by a member of MYM staff.  Bands should provide their own transport to / from the venue as well as arrange for any supervision of ensemble members where required.  Each guest ensemble will be invited to prepare 20 minutes of repertoire as well as present a spoken introduction to their program.  Tickets for friends and family to attend concerts will be on sale from four weeks prior to the festival through MYM’s box office.

Melbourne Youth Music

T: 03 9376 8988

Melbourne Youth Music’s 2012 Summer School is running from Monday 16 – Saturday 21 January 2012 at the Victorian College of the Arts. The Summer School Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra still have vacancies for most instruments, particularly horn, viola and double bass. Visit www.mym.org.au for more information.

http://acmf.com.au/our-initiatives/national-songwriting-competition/

Applications (primary and secondary) accepted until September 2011 for the national song-writing competition run by the Australian Children’s Music Foundation.

Go to resource: The Naxos Music Library is an online library of over 550000 tracks of music including classical, jazz, world, nostalgia, Chinese music, rock and pop, and other genres of music. Read more…

Fresh off the printing press – Instant Lessons in Music (Vols 3, 4 & 5) – photocopiable /digital lessons designed to enhance school Music programs OR leave for Emergency teachers (without the need for musical competency) – suits 11-16 year old Music classes – written by an Australian teacher for Australian students.

Vol 3: Music in Australia

Vol 4: Everyday musicality

Vol 5: Theory, composition & song-writing

New Millenium Records – a rich resource for free lesson content. Most lessons are paragraphs of typed information embedded with free audio files or video clips to support the text.

http://teachingmusic.tumblr.com/lessons/

A blog about NEW ways to teach Year 6 – 12 classroom music. Includes philosophical discussion AND free lesson plans.

Go to resource: The New York Philharmonic Orchestra Interactive Kid’s Site offers interactive online music games about orchestral instruments, composition, composers, musicians, and conductors.

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lecture on Antarctica by Westlake – a detailed lecture on Westlake’s film music to the movie Antarctica

http://australianmusiceducators.ning.com/ is an Australian discussion forum for music educators.  It was set up with the intent of discussing ideas on classroom band programs, but it really is a forum for discussion on any aspect of Australian music teaching from P-12.  At present there is a small group of members, but I am hoping to build it up and draw on a wide range of professional knowledge and experience.

This group is completely FREE (in a monetary sense, not a moral or metaphysical sense).

Please come along and check it out.  The page is run as a ning, which is basically a social network with a particular focus.  It is great for online discussion, linking of video and photo and has facility for you to blog.  All you need to do is create an account.

Go to resource: Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy – School Projects: the Nordoff-Robbins Golden Stave Therapy Centre in Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, runs a number of outreach programs in schools.

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Go to resource: The Northern Tour Education Kit (by The Queensland Orchestra) is a kit that supports the 2009 concerts ‘Words and Music’ and examines what music conveys (stories, emotions etc).

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Gove FM, with support from the NT Government, will be hosting Nhulunbuy’s biggest ever festival day on August the 20th at The Hindle Oval.

The Take Control Youth Festival will be a drug and alcohol free event that combines sport, music, workshops and healthy lifestyle promotions.

Melbourne indie rock band Children Collide and Sydney hip-hop outfit Horrorshow will headline the event. Other acts include a number of great local indigenous bands like Alice Springs desert reggae stars the Tjupi Band, Darwin hip hop crews ADK and Emerald Sun and East Arnhems latest salt water reggae outfit East Journey.

Local high school band comp winners The Sleeveheads will also share the stage with former Gove local Tamika Rose’s new band The Riff. In the week leading up to the event The Indigenous Hip-Hop Project will run dance workshops for local youth.

NUMU is a website for students to upload their own recordings and share musical ideas and critiques. http://numu.org.uk/

NY Times article – research led Anthony Tommasini to publish the Top 10 Classical composers of all time in the New York Times (Jan 11, 2011)

Following the success of the 2010 competition, Melbourne Recital Centre is again proud to present the final of the Great Romantics Competition, dedicated to musicians passionate about Brahms, Liszt and Schumann.

The Great Romantics Competition is aimed at up and coming musicians that are attending university or are recently graduated.

This competition provides a platform for finalists to perform in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, for the prestigious Great Romantics Prize, which includes a combination of cash plus performance and recording opportunities.

Competition repertoire will consist of any work/s of Brahms and/or Liszt and/or Schumann not exceeding 20 minutes in total duration.

Melbourne Recital Centre is once again offering the Elisabeth Murdoch prize of $6000 plus additional prizes to the winning competitor.

Applications close: Friday 22 July 2011

For all enquires please contact MaryRose Harrison on 03 9699 2660  OR  maryrose.harrison@melbournerecital.com.au

http://cnx.org/content/col10214/latest/ “Sound Reasoning”

“Sound Reasoning” is a web-based, introductory music appreciation course. It features an explanation, followed by a relevant musical audio quote.

This e-text offers a new approach to music appreciation for adults or 17-18 year old students, focusing on style-independent concepts. While the course concentrates primarily on Western classical and modern music, the concepts that are introduced apply to music of any style or era. The goal of “Sound Reasoning” is to equip you with questions that you may ask of any piece of music, thereby creating a richer and more comprehensive understanding of music both familiar and unfamiliar.

Why Should the Kids Have All the Fun!

Ooolation! Tasmania Singing Adventure June 30 – July 10 2011
Young Voices of Melbourne, in association with Festival of Voices and Ooolitic Music is running a singing camp for singers aged 18 – 28 (with flexibility) with three outstanding US leaders – Malcolm Dalglish, Moira Smiley, Joshua Kartes and Jeff Fellinger, along with Sydney percussionist Peter Jacob, Amelia Alder and Mark O’Leary.

We will rehearse for 5 days on the beautiful and remote Maria Island, before heading to Hobart’s wonderful Festival of Voices where the Ooolation! Singers will play a key role. We are looking for singers with experience who love music, performing, the outdoors and have a sense of adventure! Malcolm Dalglish has been runnning these camps in the USA for years, but this will be the first time Ooolaion has come to Australia.

More information is available at:
http://www.oooliticmusic.com/

If you are looking for some musical enrichment in the July school holidays this might be for you. Please pass this information on to any senior or past students who might be interested.

Go to resource: Opera Australia is Australia’s national opera company.

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#OperaPlot – 11-15 April 2011, Twitter members from around the world will be creating a new opera – one phrase at a time

This could make an interesting lesson idea – students write a sentence each … maybe even borrow the melody from another choral work …

Orchestra Victoria is thrilled to announce that we will be holding eight Education Workshops for music students in regional and peri-urban Victoria this year.

EDUCATION WORKSHOPS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS:

2012

Maryborough: 6 – 7 June

Shepparton: 7 – 8 June

Swan Hill: 14 – 14 June

Hamilton: 18 – 19 July

Mornington: 25 – 16 July

Werribee: 31 July – 1 August

Sale: 9 – 10 August

Bendigo: 24 -25 October

End of Year Concert Hamer Hall Arts Centre Melbourne: 1 December

For details on how to apply please contact:

Joël Murray, Education Development Manager, or

Megan Dennis, Education & Community Coordinator (Monday & Tuesday)

9694 3600 or info@orchestravictoria.com.au <mailto:info@orchestravictoria.com.au>

Go to resource: Orchestra Victoria offers education programs for teachers and students. Read more…

Enthusiastic and aspiring musicians and music teacher are invited to register for Orchestra Victoria’s free intensive two day workshops in Werribee, Bendigo and Hamilton.

Students will be mentored by professional musicians to improving their ensemble playing and technique. Under the baton of a professional conductor, the workshop will conclude with an evening concert where the students will play alongside Orchestra Victoria and showcase their new skills to the community.

Music teachers, ensemble leaders or local conductors are also invited to register for the two day Professional Development workshop. This unique education model is led by a professional conductor with national and international experience and will help you extend your skills. Register now to take part in these personalised, free workshops.

For registrations forms dates and locations please visit http://orchestravictoria.com.au/education

If you require more information, please contact Orchestra Victoria on 03 9694 3600.

Go to resource: The Orff Schulwerk Association of South Australia is a non-profit organisation that supports teachers in music education, and is the SA branch of the national association for Schulwerk methodology. Read more…

HOW TO MAKE GRAVY is an app (costing about $15) which features background material to Paul Kelly’s music, as well as lyrics. The app links to any / all Paul Kelly songs already in your iTunes folder.

A great teaching resource for Australian contemporary music & song-writing.

HERE is a free teaser of a documentary about 30 years of Paul Kelly, entitled “Stories of Me” which will be released in 2012.

Penrith Valley Learning Centre is working through issues with troubled students via music recording and video creation projects.

Inspiring Performance Skills workshops for Secondary Students
with Living Music Now

Taking advantage of industry experienced musicians with a professional performance background is now becoming increasingly more important with the renewed focus on performance at VCE level.  After refining her approach for the tertiary sector Melanie Atma, performer, musician and composer is now in her second year of delivering her unique and inspiring performance workshops specifically for secondary age students.

LMN workshops provide students with confidence building tools that combat nerves, teach the power of mental preparation and the skill of asking for and offering feedback.

· Complimenting the work of instrumental music teachers
· Students perform their own work in an open and supportive environment
· Great for group or solo contexts developing students prior to recitals and performance exams
· Greater on-going enjoyment for both performers and their audience.
· 90- minute workshops presented at your school

Through the use of (More than just a master class) innovative techniques and tools LMN workshops shift the focus away from competition and comparison, encouraging students to reflect upon their own personal goals, acknowledging their own unique gifts & strengths.

For more details visit: www.livingmusicnow.com.au <http://www.livingmusicnow.com.au>
Or contact melanie@livingmusicnow.com.au

www.petercousens.com/masterclass_peter_cousens.html

Peter Cousens is available for student masterclasses.

In a joint Masterclass for students and lovers of musical theatre, Peter Cousens and Anne-Maree McDonald (soprano, pianist and music director) bring to you their passion and skill in interpreting a song, communicating to an audience, finding character, addressing technical issues and becoming emotionally connected through text and music.

These master classes are tailored to suit students of HSC Performance, students of Singing, students of Acting and students of Musical Theatre.