Tag: orchestra
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MEFA (Musicworks Ensemble Festival Aotearoa)
MEFA in Wellington is Aotearoa’s national ensemble festival catering to all school ensembles of all levels of traditional & jazz/blues styles. MEFA warmly embraces a wide spectrum of school-aged musical groups of all levels unlike many festivals that focus more on competition. We encourage all comers groups and mixed ensembles as much as the top groups, including…
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MEFA (Musicworks Ensemble Festival, Aotearoa)
MEFA in Wellington is Aotearoa’s national ensemble festival catering to all school ensembles of all levels of traditional & jazz/blues styles. MEFA warmly embraces a wide spectrum of school-aged musical groups of all levels unlike many festivals that focus more on competition. We encourage all comers groups and mixed ensembles as much as the top…
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Band & Orchestral Programmes In Schools
As brass and wind specialists, we have had the pleasure of working with Band and Orchestral Programmes in Auckland schools over the last 6 years. We have both taught classroom & instrumental music and have worked with a range of school ensembles since becoming registered teachers. In this article, we would like to share with…
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Help, I can’t buy music for that combination of instruments!
Turning an unlikely combination of instruments into a performance group. Have you ever been in a situation where you have an unlikely combination of instrumentalists at school? Perhaps a beginner violin, an advanced recorder, a bassoon and a bagpipe? What do you do? This is an important question and we’ll look at some effective solutions,…