AUSTA Q International Reading Day

Sunday, 5th November 9am-10:30am AEST
Online Zoom meeting

Registration: Online with trybooking https://www.trybooking.com/CMPLK 

AUSTA Q Invites you to the annual International Reading Day (online). This online event has been so well attended in year’s past that this year it will again be held online. We again invite members from all around the country to participate. Some of AUSTA Q’s most experienced ensemble directors will guide you through a selection of the latest works from the overseas publishers.
Presentations will be as follows:

Loreta Fin – Levels 0.5 to 1.5
Raquel Bastos – Levels 2 to 2.5
Bernadette Connolly – Levels 3 to 3.5
Stephen Chin – Level 4 and above

This is a great opportunity to finalise budgets, order new music for the beginning of 2024, or top up your PD hours.
Please register using the link above in order to secure your place in the Zoom meeting.

Registrations Essential and Close: Wednesday 1st November.
Ticketholders will be emailed on the Saturday 4th November with the ZOOM link.

Cost
Members: Free
Non-Members: $10.00

AUSTA Q Annual Reading Day & AGM
When: Sunday, 4th Feburary 9am-1pm AEST
Where: BBC College Hall
Registration: Trybooking click here 
Registration is essential and must close Wednesday 31st January 2024.

AUSTA Q’s hugely popular Reading Day is on again in 2024 ready to take you into the new year. We look forward to welcoming as many pedagogues as possible to this event. While the reading day will have a local focus, a few of the best shortlisted pieces from the International reading day from 2023 will be included. The short AGM will follow the reading day at 12pm. Then we invite you all to catch up with colleagues and friends over lunch kindly supplied by Music Fest.

Sunday, 4 February 2024 – 8:30am for 9am Start.  Feel free to join us for tea and coffee before we start playing. Bring your instruments!

Venue:
Brisbane Boys’ College
College Hall.
Kensington Terrace
Toowong, QLD 4066

Contact Details:
austaeventsqld@gmail.com

Registrations Essential and Close: Wednesday 31st January.

Cost
Members: Free
Non-Members: $40.00

Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 April – AUSTA Q Mini-Conference

Registration is open!

AUSTA Q’s Mini-Conference has discounted registration during the early bird period. Register before 20th March and save. All registrations must close 10th April.
https://www.trybooking.com/CPFVL

AUSTA Q is very excited to be presenting Ed Le Brocq as the keynote speaker at the AUSTA Q Mini-Conference 2024.

Ed Le Brocq is a musical adventurer, teacher, writer, broadcaster and transgender man. He was born on the White Cliffs of Dover and began playing music when he was six years old. He studied viola in Manchester, Berlin and London, and played professionally in the UK and Hong Kong. After a decade of performances throughout Asia, including for the Hong Kong Handover in 1997, Ed decided on a new path, literally, and travelled by bicycle from England to Hong Kong, with only a violin for company. The journey took him a year and went through Europe, Iran, Pakistan, India and China. The trip was eventually chronicled in Cadence, Ed’s first book and a national bestseller.

After immigrating to Australia in 2003, and after a character-building year scrubbing dishes in St Kilda, Ed eventually began broadcasting with ABC Classic FM. He spent many years hosting the cult hit breakfast programme and doing things like cycling to the source of the Ganges in his spare time.

After more than a decade in the ABC studios, Ed decided he needed to get out and about again and applied for a job teaching cello to street children and orphans at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul. Eddie’s second book Danger Music is about this turbulent, life-changing year, where he survived the threat of bombs, kidnappings, beginner string players and hormone-charged teenagers. It was during this year that Ed finally accepted the man within and began his transition from female to male. Emma became Ed just before his fiftieth birthday. Better late than never.

Ed’s fifth book Sound Bites – Following the Bendy Path of Classical Music from Ancient Times to Today was released in August 2023.

Schedule is available on the event page as well as here:

SATURDAY 14 & SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER – AUSTA Q Professional Weekend

Registration is now open!
https://www.trybooking.com/CROZB

Rob McWilliams
Ph.D., M.Mus., B.Mus.Ed.
Conducting Intensive Weekend

Whether you are an early career or highly experienced ensemble director, this workshop aims to build and strengthen your perspective on the craft of conducting and the art of ensemble direction. No ensemble director can afford to miss this invaluable event.