Events

"Keeping today’s pupils motivated."

Generation Alpha music pupils have moved on from their predecessors’ ways of thinking and doing things. How can we teachers best deliver the skills and understanding these pupils need in ways that engage and motivate them? How can we ensure our pupils’ practising and performing feels relevant and meaningful? All speakers at this PD Day are experienced and discerning music educators who have tackled this problem head on and are happy to share some of their answers with you. Come along to listen, contribute and network!

The Reimann-Robinson Scholarship is open to all instrumental/vocal students of any member of the MTASA who are teaching in a private capacity.  Open to students who are 18 years or under on the closing day of entry to the Scholarship.  The Miriam Hyde Open Award is open to all instrumental/vocal students of any member of […]

Virginia Black PD application Form HERE Baroque music, written for the harpsichord and played on the piano.   Virginia will draw upon her long and varied experience as a vituoso harpsichord performer, describing how this has influenced and shaped her playing of Bach and other Baroque composers on the modern grand piano. She will play […]

Member $50, Non-Member $65, Student $35 Practising and Performing: teaching for successful outcomes - a woodwind perspective We all have pupils who practise poorly.  We all have pupils who perform poorly.  Does practice really make perfect?  What are the recipes for better connections between these two fundamental activities that lead to good outcomes for our […]

Teaching Music in the Age of Covid The stress felt by the world from bushfires, pestilence and economic recession touches us all with uncertainty and anxiety. We each express this in our own way, with some people becoming withdrawn and worried while others are irritable, argumentative, and uncooperative. Children are also affected and the more […]