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› The Assyrian Women’s group: celebrating, preserving and sharing Assyrian Culture in Melbourne
23/Jun/2017
Foundation House is an organisation set up to help refugees and migrants who are survivors of torture in other countries, assisting them with settlement services and connecting them with other organisations such as AMES on arrival in Australia. It is also the starting point in this story of a group of Chaldean Christian women who have hopes of becoming the Assyrian Women’s Choir. Read more...
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› Australian Welsh Male Choir: Assistant Accompanist
07/Jun/2017
The Australian Welsh Male Choir is seeking to appoint an Assistant Accompanist. The Assistant Accompanist will assist the choir in providing piano accompaniment for rehearsals and performances where the Principal Accompanist is unavailable. Applicants should possess the following skills: Proficient sight-reading skills; Accompaniment experience; Performance experience; Tertiary level music performance…
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› Can Finnish Music Teaching Methods Be Adopted in Australia?
28/Jun/2017
Given the striking success of Finland’s music education system, which Music Australia has explored in two previous stories (here at http://musicaustralia.org.au/2017/01/music-education-has-finland-got-it-right/ and here at http://musicaustralia.org.au/2017/06/finlands-music-education-system-how-it-works/), it is the more surprising that there have been so few attempts at adopting its methods and practices in other countries. There is…
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28/Jun/2017
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› Canberra’s First Dementia Choir Is An Alternative To Medication
28/Jun/2017
Established in late 2016, Canberra’s first choir for people experiencing dementia now has 60 members. The group is called The Alchemy Chorus and was initiated by Alzheimer’s Australia, in collaboration with conductor Brian Triglone. “We are using the arts instead of anti-psychotic medication,” Heather Clarke, Alzheimer’s Australia ACT, told the ABC.…
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› The Climate Songs Project - What Can We Do?
27/Jun/2017
The Music Trust announces an important new project to place music at the service of climate action - The Climate Songs Project Written by: Richard Letts. The world, as always, faces a barrage of problems. Barrages are noisy. Each of the problems assaults our peaceful enjoyment of life and generally, we…
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› Inspiring artistic freedom – Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra
27/Jun/2017
Ensemble Zohra, named after a Persian literature goddess of music, are a group of 30 female musicians aged 14 to 20, students at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. The ensemble was formed by ANIM founder and Director Afghan musicologist Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the first Afghan to obtain a doctorate…
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› Join Gippsapella! (The Gippsland Acoustic Music Club Choir)
27/Jun/2017
Gippsapella (the GAMC Acapella choir) will be reforming in preparation for this year‟s annual GAMC Acapella festival. This year, Gippsapella will be led by Lyndal Chambers (co-founder of GAMC and of GAMC Acapella Festival.....and SO many more strings to her bow, especially in the community music world) Rehearsal times/dates &…
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› Can you help? Performance opportunity sought by a visiting NZ choir
27/Jun/2017
My niece is in a choir visiting Melbourne from Hamilton, New Zealand and they are keen to have any public performances possible during their time here. Information about the choir: "We are arriving with the Choir in Melbourne on September 28 and leaving October 5 and we are looking for…
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› Organise your own Song Swap
27/Jun/2017
Whenever CMVic runs an event, we ask the participants for feedback and without fail responses relate to repertoire (more new songs) and networking (the opportunity to talk with people working in similar areas, to share problems, to learn!). A rewarding and easy way to achieve both objectives is with a Song Swap. I want to organise my own Song Swap! But how? A Song Swap is easy to organise. As few as four people can be successful although the more the merrier - and the more diverse the range of songs offered up. You need: a venue, a facilitator, a date, advertising Can CMVic help? YES!!!! We have a number of people who are skilled in running these events…