A cappella festival brings Pitch Perfect music-maker to Auckland! Have you ever wished you could sing in a group like Pentatonix or the Barden Bellas from Pitch Perfect? Now’s your chance to discover how that feels! The Pan Pacific Youth Harmony Festival is a brand new festival celebrating all things a cappella! From 13-14 July, the festival […]
An opportunity to immerse yourself in the Kodaly approach to teaching music in the classroom, while developing your own musicianship skills. The course will be an introduction to all the components of the Australian Kodaly Certificate, which The Muse plans to offer next year, in conjunction with Sound Thinking Australia under the leadership of James […]
32nd World Conference International Society for Music Education Glasgow, UK 24-29 July Featured speakers and performers include Evelyn Glennie, Joan Armatrading and Darren Henley. Hundreds of workshops, papers and concerts over 5 days of Music Education professional development from Early Childhood through to tertiary from all corners of the world.
Music Matters in Early Childhood – A Workshop with Celia Stewart.
This workshop will explore practical ideas to use in early childhood and will demonstrate how music can impact on every area of children’s development. We will chant, sing, move, play, and listen using a range of props and equipment in a workshop that will send you away with ideas you can incorporate immediately into your programmes.
The NZ Concert Bands Association is proud to announce a world first. In August 2016, we will be celebrating the very first Band and Orchestra Month. The month will celebrate and promote community and school concert, jazz and orchestras of all levels.
NZCBA has been running a national festival since its inception in 1988. The objective has been to provide a quality playing opportunity for concert bands, provide feedback in the form of adjudication with an award of Bronze, Silver or Gold, and the chance for education and socialising to occur within the band community. The 2016 Festival […]
Details of Christchurch’s premier high school jazz band competition at: http://www.cpit.ac.nz/study-options/our-study-interest-areas/music-arts/jazzquest
Presenter: Rozy Winstone – for teachers of children 0-6 yrs 9:00- 10.30 Vocal and ukulele skills for teachers 11:00 -12.30 Playing with Stories
Led by two of NZ’s most popular music educators, Robert Legg and Christoph Maubach this session introduces an approach to classroom singing based on practical music pedagogies such as Orff and Kodaly. Come and learn how to inspire and challenge your students using a wide range of songs and vocal activities from communities across the […]
August 7th 1.30 – 5pm at The Theatre, Rangi Ruru Session One: Fast tracking finger technique and counting with conviction Rocket Fuel for Woodwind Players – Mark Walton Mark will share with you how he fast tracks his students so they can whiz around their instruments with agility. Come and find out Mark’s tricks that […]
Join us for a selection of workshops for ECE, primary and secondary teachers.
The Wellington Bands and Orchestras Festival, celebrates music-making by New Zealand’s school and community Concert Bands, Orchestras, Big Bands and Jazz Combos. Although promoting and focusing on bands and orchestras in the Wellington region, WeBO is open to any band or orchestra from around New Zealand and the world. Each performing ensemble will receive a […]
In this workshop teachers will learn a number of intercultural songs from Madagascar, West Africa, South America, and the Pacific. Songs and music from these cultures will be integrated with drums, percussion and dance. Teachers will learn a number of call and response songs for easy level song leading in the classroom, as well as […]
Presenter: Millie Locke – for teachers of children 0-6 yrs. 9:00- 10.30am vocal and ukulele skills for teachers 11:00- 12.30 Integrating language, music and movement using a thematic approach.
This workshop is for both generalist and specialist classroom music teachers In the workshop we will will explore a simple process beginning with a small building block such as a poem a chant, a patere or a song and demonstrate how we can provide opportunities for children to play with it and build on it […]