OUTLINE: In this online session we will explore some key elements that contribute to the successful running of a string ensemble. There will be something for every ensemble director as we talk through how to motivate your students, plan for effective rehearsals, encourage good aural and music reading skills and have some tricks up your sleeve to keep things moving! After a highly successful presentation of this session at the ASME(WA) Summer School, Jade is excited to share this jam-packed presentation with other passionate string teachers and encourage us all to create an exciting year of ‘Ensemble Success!’

BIO: Jade Martin is currently a senior violin/viola specialist & string ensemble director with the Department of Education’s Instrumental Music School Services. With over 20 years teaching experience, Jade has previously taught in numerous private schools around Perth and from 1998-2016 ran a highly successful private music teaching studio which incorporated both instrumental music and early childhood music education classes. As well as a Bachelor of Music Education, Jade holds a Primary Suzuki Violin Teaching Certificate, and has completed levels in both Kodaly & Orff- Schulwerk methodologies. Jade’s approach to teaching is down-to-earth and hands-on, incorporating various music teaching methodologies to continually evolve a practice that best serves the needs of her students. With a passionate belief that every child possesses the intrinsic ability to speak the language of music, Jade strives to enable her students to fulfil their innate musical potential.

FREE TO AUSTA MEMBERS, $10 all other

BOOK HERE: https://www.trybooking.com/BOVSK

Proudly supported by AUSTA WA

Come and play, listen or conduct at ABODA WA’s annual conducting clinic. Morning tea provided. Clinician Matt Klohs.

Conducting & Repertoire:

• List of carefully selected repertoire. Scores available on registration (novice to advanced).
• Attendees may also bring and conduct a piece of their choice (subject to ABODA committee approval).
• Conduct/ participate in any session regardless of your instrument.
• STRING PLAYERS ARE VERY WELCOME TO JUST COME AND PLAY ON THE SUNDAY (NO FEE, MORNING TEA PROVIDED) YOU WILL STILL NEED TO REGISTER (click on the link below and select no payment required in the payment options)
• Discounted rate for AUSTA and ABODA members

If you have any Questions please contact: james.martin@education.wa.edu.au

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrHeMNeU9EMxj4aK7RJK4vvxb5FI8TPrHLZrARo09Ggaj8zQ/viewform

Vibrato Workshop with Jeremy Woolstenhulme

Sunday March 21st 12:00 PM AEDT

Join Jeremy Woolstenhulme, world-class performer, educator, and author of the bestselling series String Basics, as he shows you the best ways to introduce vibrato to your string students. Jeremy will offer teaching tips tailored for each instrument.

James de Rozario, National President of the Australian Strings Association (AUSTA), will introduce the workshop. You’ll have a chance to to ask Jeremy all your burning questions live during the workshop.

Register today for this rare opportunity to hear from one of the world’s leading strings pedagogues!

REGISTER HERE

About Jeremy Woolstenhulme

Jeremy Woolstenhulme received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Brigham Young University in 2000, and a Master of Arts degree in cello Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2005.

Mr. Woolstenhulme currently serves as the orchestra director at Northview High School in Fulton County, Georgia and taught for 20 years previously in the Clark County School District of Las Vegas, Nevada. He has traveled with his orchestras to London, Washington, D.C., Boston, San Diego, and New York. His orchestra was selected to play at the 2008 and 2017 Midwest Clinic and in 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2018 at the National ASTA Conference.

With a steadily growing number of original and arranged works to his credit, Mr. Woolstenhulme is a commissioned and published composer, many which have been performed around the world. His works have consistently been included as J.W. Pepper Editors’ Choice selections and can be found on festival repertoire lists. He is co-author, with Terry Shade and Wendy Barden of the highly acclaimed string method, String Basics. His specialty is to write for middle and high school orchestras where he composes to teach, challenge, and inspire. He has served as clinician and guest conductor throughout the United States, Canada, Australia (including the prestigious Maryborough Conference) and the People’s Republic of China.

Come along, meet others in the string community, win tickets to WASO, Musica Viva, D’Addario Vouchers worth $400 – and of course, listen and watch!

A relaxed and welcoming performance opportunity for string students of all levels. We are pleased to welcome well-known esteemed musicians and string teachers Margaret Gunson and Michael Goldschlager as adjudicators and Kathy Stanton and Stephanie Nicholls as accompanists.

Entry for audience is free, donations also welcome or buy a raffle ticket.

We will have a limited quantity of second-hand sheet music for sale at BARGAIN prices, and if you are looking to clear your shelves of unwanted scores, for more information, please contact  wapresident@austa.asn.au

Trinity College, East Perth

Encore Event! Presented by AUSTA WA via ZOOM on Sunday July 4 to over 150 viewers, a new AUSTA Zoom record!

A recording will be made available to view from August 14 – 23, please register via the link below. Discounted registration applies for AUSTA members.

BOOK HERE: https://www.trybooking.com/BSWYK  

Bookings close AUGUST 12

PDF poster available:

(Please email WA President Helen Tuckey through link on WA Committee page.)

About “Fundamentals of Bowing: Resonance and Movement”

Sound is arguably the defining feature of string playing. A beautiful sound is reliant upon optimal resonance while skilful bow strokes create music character. This discussion looks at the physics of sound production and the physical movements needed to develop supple bow technique. 

Biography: Dr Robin Wilson is an internationally regarded pedagogue and Head of Violin at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. A faculty member of the Keshet Eilon International String Mastercourse in Israel and the Valdres Festival in Norway he has also held appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland. Robin regularly gives masterclasses in Australasia, Asia, Israel, the UK and the USA and his students are major prize-winners of international competitions, hold principal positions and regularly perform as soloists with orchestras in Australia and overseas. In 2018 he received a National Award from the Australian String Teachers Association for outstanding services to the string community in Australia.

Robin has performed at leading venues and festivals throughout Australia, USA and the UK and has recorded solo and chamber music for Decca, ABC Classics, Vexations840 and VDE-Gallo. A member of Ironwood and the Australian Octet, he is a former leader of the ARCO Chamber Orchestra and has appeared as guest violinist with many leading Australian ensembles. Holding a PhD from the University of Sydney, Robin’s research into the historically informed performance of Brahms’s music was awarded the prestigious 2014 Geiringer Prize from the American Brahms Society and he has presented lectures and recitals at major international conferences and institutions including Stanford and Yale Universities, City University of New York, University of Colorado, Leeds University, Royal College of Music London and the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester.

Robin studied in Sydney with Alice Waten and Janet Davies and at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He plays on a violin made by the Gagliano family in Naples in 1784.