Keeping Community in Mind: Musicking and Cultural Identity Have you ever seen a pipa or heard pipa music? The pipa is a four-stringed pear-shaped lute, one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments with over 2000 years of history. Cici will share some of her pipa music and reflect on the relationship between music, culture, identity […]
An event for Primary School Jazz Bands (up to year 8). Bands perform for each other and get written feedback from jazz lecturers from ARA Music Arts. The Registration link will be added here soon and also to the Christchurch Big Band Festival Website.
NZ’s only Big Band Festival kicks off with Junior Jazz Jam, an event for primary school jazz bands, and works through the long weekend with bands of all ages playing outdoor gigs in cool venues around the new Christchurch central city. It also offers workshops, dancing, concerts and surprise events! Register your big band here […]
REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM WORKSHOP In this workshop for secondary school music teachers, the elements of the Curriculum Design Coherence Model (CDC) will be used to design a unit of work. The CDC model is currently being utilised in a research study in New Zealand and England and is proving very useful in enhancing teachers’ […]
AMIS is pleased to present an online event to support global music educators who are facing an uncertain return to teaching in the autumn of 2020. The Online Summit will be offered in two components: ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAM A library of 80 asynchronous, pre-recorded workshops created by music educators and guest presenters from all over the world. […]
Thursday November 5 Scots College This is an opportunity for students to participate in an orchestra. Teachers can use the arranged music to support students to learn their parts for the festival, often alongside instrumental tutors (private or otherwise). From this, small school performing groups can result. Instrumental parts include strings, brass, woodwind, percussion as […]
Presented by Music EDnet, DAYTiME is an annual one-day professional development conference focusing on the effective integration of technology in music education. It offers a unique opportunity to hear from some of the most knowledgeable and experienced exponents of the use of technology in music education, as well as some time to network with your […]
THIS YEAR’S KIWILELE FESTIVAL WILL BE ON SATURDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2020 TRUSTS ARENA, AUCKLAND 12pm – 3pm – Gates open at 10am The happiest day on Auckland’s event calendar, the NZ Ukulele Festival is a FREE fun-filled family music event. The line-up features The Kiwileles’ Massed Schools 2500-strong Ukulele Orchestra, the amazing NZ Ukulele Squads […]
The NZCF Association of Choral Directors (ACD) will run a one-day choral conducting workshop on Saturday, 7 November 2020 at Hastings Girls’ High School. Run by ACD Clinician, Brent Stewart, the workshop is part of the ACD’s programme of professional development for choral leaders – with clear benefits flowing on to singers and audiences. Community and chamber choir […]
Uploaded is a songwriting competition hosted by Andrson—a sound-driven A&R platform that helps you deliver your music to key music executives. And now, Andrson users worldwide can submit original songs to compete for prizes. And to launch Uploaded, we’re partnering with children’s charity, Make-A-Wish Ireland. Twenty percent of sponsorships and all donations from the competition will be […]
This workshop will provide an easy to understand and apply method to help educators think about popular music analysis. Classical and Jazz based analytical tools are not broad enough to explore popular music in a holistic manner, which requires consideration of culture and subtext through para-musical elements (e.g. video, image etc), as well as harmony, […]
Taonga Puoro allows our students to think about their Hauora and Mauri and gives the opportunity to make musical instruments in our classrooms. In this Professional Development opportunity, we will focus on how we can make music more inclusive and allow our classrooms to resonate towards Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will focus on making […]
Just a reminder the 2020/2021 National Concerto Competition Preliminaries is beginning on Tuesday 8th December at 10.30 a.m. and going through to 1.00 p.m. on Wednesday 9th December. Semi-Final is Wednesday 9th December at 7.30 p.m. Venue is The Piano, 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch Please see link below for details: Concerto Update – Reminder – December 2020 2020/2021 National Concerto Competition […]
Piano and Violin Category 2021 The 2021 New Zealand Music Competition is open to piano and violin students in four age groups. Deadline for applications is 11 December 2020. Apply here. Piano Category: Competition Date: January 21 – 23, 2021 Competition Venue: Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, Wellington Violin Category: Competition Date: […]
LIVE AND IN PERSON! Coordinated by Rodger Fox and Dave Lisik. The New Zealand National Jazz Workshops bring New Zealand’s enthusiastic jazz students together with NZ’s best jazz musicians and educators, working on instrumental techniques, improvisation, ensemble skills, jazz theory, listening and performances. Students 19 and under with at least one year of experience on […]
