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AUSTA SA Upcoming Events

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR PLAYERS, TEACHERS & EDUCATORS

Sunday 23rd FEBRUARY 2025

1:30 - 2:30pm Baroque Music Workshop 3:00 - 5:00pm String Ensemble Repertoire Reading Day https://www.trybooking.com/CYJDH Baroque Techniques with Lucy Macourt & Agnes Weinstein (Baroque Violin) showcasing Baroque techniques for strings and further learning opportunities. String Ensemble Repertoire Reading Day with Lachlan Bramble - string players - please bring your instruments to play new Australian compositions to find some great new repertoire for your ensembles. Join us afterwards for a drink at THE ASTOR (Corner Gilles and Pulteney Street, first round on us.)  

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FOR STRING TEACHERS & STRING ENSEMBLE DIRECTORS

ABODA & AUSTA Strings Seminar - Prince Alfred College

7pm Thursday 22nd MAY 2025 

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY

A concert performance experience for your instrumental students - coming in June and November, more details to come. New 2025 event for AUSTA SA.  

STUDENT STRING ENSEMBLE WORKSHOPS 

Seymour College, Gilles Road Jane Hardy gate 6, Glen Osmond
Term 1 - Saturday 29th March
Term 2 -
Term 3 -
A workshop for primary and secondary string players from Preliminary to Grade 4 AMEB and is an opportunity for players to meet new friends while learning skills needed to successfully play in string ensembles. Music will be emailed to you before the workshop to print and bring along. Free family concert afterwards. Ask your teacher before registering in: ALBINONI More than 1 year experience BACH Preliminary - 1 AMEB CORELLI Grade 2-3 AMEB  

AUSTA CELLO WEEKEND for adult players - all ages, all stages.

New 2025 event for AUSTA SA. More details coming soon.

 

BEGINNER ADULT STRING ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP 

If you are an adult and learning a bowed string instrument, join us for a fun afternoon of playing new string ensemble repertoire and catching up over afternoon tea. Term 2 and 4. Registrations limited. Music will be emailed to you before the workshop to print and bring along.  

AUSTA NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR STRING PLAYERS AND TEACHERS

Join us in Sydney from 11-13 July for the 2025 AUSTA Golden Jubilee Conference when we celebrate history and shape the future. AUSTA’s 2025 Golden Jubilee Conference at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music celebrates the history and vision of a professional community that has transformed the life and work of string players, teachers and makers in Australia for half a century. The conference will feature presentations, workshops and round table discussions on teaching, learning and performance, working in regional communities, strings in schools, conducting, ensemble development and repertoire, methodology and pedagogy of instrumental development for Double Bass, Cello, Viola and Violin, maintaining instruments, masterclasses, performances and much more

Headline Speakers and Performers Include...

  • Elizabeth Morgan AM – legendary teacher and founding member of AUSTA will speak about the history and vision for AUSTA.
  • Anita Collins – author of The Music Advantage, founder of Bigger and Better Brains and global expert on neuroscience and music talks about Neural Notes: How Learning String Instruments Shapes Brain Development, conducts workshops on working in challenging context and discusses optimising the relationship with parents for the benefit of student learning.
  • Emily Sun – international soloist and professor of violin at the Royal College of Music, London, “possessed of a superb talent” (The Australian), playing with “a searing and poetic tone” (The Guardian) in recital and masterclass.
  • Timothy Kantor – recently appointed to the Sydney Conservatorium talks about The importance of musical interpretation and how to inspire students to develop their own way of interpreting music.
  • Fintan Murphy – one of Australia’s most experienced teachers and presenter of over 400 seminars, summer schools workshops and conference presentations throughout Australia, the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America will discuss how teachers learn.
The 2025 Golden Jubilee Conference features presentations, workshops, masterclasses, performances and much opportunity for professional development, networking and social interaction. We are inviting submissions for presentations of papers and workshops in the following categories:
  • 20-minute short topic presentation
  • Full 45-minute presentation or workshops
The deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to February 15, 2025
AUSTA Conference Member Rates
  • $660 Early Bird
  • $825 after 31 May 2025
Conference Non-Member Rates
  • $825 Early Bird
  • $990 after 31 May 2025
To access AUSTA Member Registration Rates visit our website for your exclusive AUSTA Member discount code. Enter your code during registration to secure discounted registration.
  If you are a string player or teacher and interested in running a workshop for AUSTA, please email Bethany Nottage sapresident@austa.asn.au" ["post_title"]=> string(2) "SA" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(2) "sa" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2025-01-22 11:52:16" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2025-01-22 00:52:16" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(55) "https://www.austa.asn.au/?post_type=chapters&p=926" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(8) "chapters" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } int(926)

AUSTA SA Gallery 2025