MENZA Events

A Broadway Conversation: The Reprise

Cimtss – ChCh Int’l Musical Theatre Summer School Christchurch, New Zealand

Join CIMTSS Director Luke Di Somma as he chats with the Broadway tutors at CIMTSS2018. In 2016, this event was a real highlight, and we anticipate another exciting and revealing conversation in 2018. Tickets on the door, and are $10. Please click GOING if you intend to come. Cash only. Venue – St Margaret’s College […]

MENZA Taranaki PD – Effective Music Technology

This PD day is designed to support intermediate, secondary and itinerant teachers in delivering the Music Curriculum, with a particular focus on Music Technology and digital integration..

ONZA BoP Music Education PD Day Tauranga

Tauranga Primary School 31 Fifth Avenue, Tauranga, New Zealand

Music Education day in the Bay Of Plenty!!! Suitable for teachers, music teachers, itinerant teachers. Particularly for Primary educators / ECE / Early High School. This workshop will offer a day of music-making, involving the voice, movement and classroom instruments which acknowledges the bi-cultural identity of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Participants will take away new skills, […]

MEC AGM

Christchurch School of Music (CSM) 60 Ferry Rd, Christchurch, New Zealand

Come and join us to hear about what is happening in Canterbury Music Education. There will be drinks and nibbles at 7, followed by a samba workshop, then a cello performance by this year’s MEC Scholarship winner, and finally our short Annual General Meeting.

NZSSSO

Charles Luney Auditorium Christchurch, New Zealand

NZ Secondary Students Symphony Orchestra Course Details Monday 23th April – Saturday 28th April 2018 Directed by Tianyi Lu Violin soloist Isaac Shatford St Margaret’s Charles Luney Auditorium Performance Programme Sibelius Finlandia, Op.26 Prokofiev Violin concerto No.2, Op.63 Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2

UNLOCKING MUSICAL POTENTIAL With Michael Griffin

Diocesan School for Girls Clyde St, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand

With more than 40 prizes and awards choral and jazz ensembles, including the Australasian Open Choral Championship 2004, Michael Griffin is well known as an international conference presenter, clinician and speaker. Michael’s seminars are not just about music learning. Rather, his intense interest in the general nature of achievement and expertise, motivation, neuroscience, creativity and pedagogy sees him speaking to a variety of audiences of staff, students and parents. His presentation ‘The Expertise Mindset’ specifically addresses intrinsically driven improvement.

The Positive Power of Musical Play

Christchurch School of Music (CSM) 60 Ferry Rd, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Positive Power of Musical Play – A Workshop with Julie Wylie: Saturday 5 May, 2pm – 4pm, Christchurch School of Music ??? Julie is delighted to present a practical workshop on “The Positive Power of Musical Play”, in association with Music Education Canterbury (see workshop outline below for further information). This workshop is designed to help […]

Michael Houstoun masterclass

The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

For advanced piano students and piano teachers… but all welcome. Chamber Room at The Piano, 156 Armagh St, Christchurch 8011 Sunday 27th May from 1.30-5pm. Link to registration form and pricing details https://tinyurl.com/IRMT2018Masterclasses Run by the Christchurch branch of IRMT

$30

Jazz Gala workshops and concert

The Rodger Fox Big Band The 17 members of New Zealand’s acclaimed Rodger Fox Big Band will be accompanied by four leading international jazz musicians. Many of the musicians in the big band hold positions in major teaching institutions, including the New Zealand School of Music and many High Schools. Rodger Fox Rodger Fox is […]

MUSIC and DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

St Clair School 135 Richardson Street, St Kilda, Dunedin, New Zealand

Fun Music Theory Games integrated with the computational thinking part of the new Digital Technologies curriculum and other cool music and tech stuff. Music & Digital Technology Tuesday 5 June 2018 Music Education Otago invites you to a workshop that combines elements of the new Digital Technologies Curriculum with Music. Our presenters: Judith Bell Judith Bell […]

$20

We Can Sing!! Wellington

A new event this year to acknowledge the variety of singing groups in our secondary schools. The idea is a simple rotation of performances by all singing groups in attendance and a massed sing to conclude. A proven formula in the Wairarapa!!

Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony

Auckland Town Hall Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand

This symphony was once described as ‘blue sky in A major’ – a description that can’t be bettered. How does Mendelssohn so perfectly translate the warmth of the southern sun into music? It’s all in the details of the orchestration, just waiting to be unpicked by Richard Gill.

MENZA AGM

Dilworth Junior School 27 Omahu Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand

MENZA warmly invites you to our AGM at Dilworth Junior Campus in Remuera, Auckland at 3pm Saturday 30 June, with drinks and nibbles to follow.

ASQ International Music Academy 2018 – Applications close 15 April

St Andrew’s on the Terrace 30 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand

Applications are now open for the 2018 ASQ International Music Academy, which will take place from 23-28 July at St Andrew’s on The Terrace in Wellington. Participants can enrol for either the full six-day course, or a shorter version running Thursday to Saturday.