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AUSTA ACT Events 2024
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june 2024
02jun12:00 AM12:00 AMACT: String Festival
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AUSTA ACT – String Festival Date: Sunday, 2 June 2024 Time: Afternoon & Evening Venue: Wesley Music Centre, 20-22 National Circuit Forrest More info soon!
Event Details
AUSTA ACT – String Festival
Date: Sunday, 2 June 2024
Time: Afternoon & Evening
Venue: Wesley Music Centre,
20-22 National Circuit Forrest
More info soon!
Time
(Sunday) 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Times TBC(GMT+00:00)
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august 2024
10aug3:00 PM5:00 PMACT: Reading Day
Event Details
AUSTA ACT – Reading Day Date: Saturday, 10 August 2024 Time: 3.00-5.00pm Venue: 54 National Circuit Forrest More details soon!
Event Details
AUSTA ACT – Reading Day
Date: Saturday, 10 August 2024
Time: 3.00-5.00pm
Venue: 54 National Circuit Forrest
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Time
(Saturday) 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM AEST(GMT+10:00)
Past Events
may 2023
07may2:00 PM4:30 PMAUSTA ACT: Masterclass with John Ma
Event Details
AUSTA ACT Masterclass A Masterclass led by John Ma Date & Time: Sunday 7th May, 2.00 pm – 4:30 pm (AEST) Venue: North Belconnen Uniting Church, Conley St, Melba ACT Cost: Participant: $50 Observers: AUSTA Member:
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AUSTA ACT Masterclass
A Masterclass led by John Ma
Date & Time: Sunday 7th May, 2.00 pm – 4:30 pm (AEST)
Venue: North Belconnen Uniting Church, Conley St, Melba ACT
Cost:
Participant: $50
Observers: AUSTA Member: $20, Non Member: $40, Student: $15
Online Registration: https://www.trybooking.com/CHNWH
Contact: austaact@gmail.com
This Masterclass is suitable for senior string students, AMEB Grade 5 and above and all string teachers.
This Masterclass is a wonderful opportunity for senior string students and teachers to experience the wealth of expertise John Ma brings to interpreting Baroque repertoire. Working with selected individual students, John will guide their understanding and interpretation of some of the standard repertoire, often presented in exams and performances at this level.
John Ma
John Ma is a Violinist/Violist and Viola d’amore player specialising in Early Music. He has performed in various roles with groups around the world including Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (NL), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (UK), Academia Montis Regalis (IT), Bach Collegium Japan (JP), Musica Poetica (NL), Apollo Ensemble (NL), Fantasticus (NL), New Collegium (NL), Collegium 1704 (CZ), Helsinki Baroque Orchestra (FIN), B’Rock (BG), Trondheim Baroque Orchestra (NOR).
In Australia, John has appeared with groups such as Pinchgut Opera, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Australian Bach Akademie, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Salut!, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, and Sinfonia Australis.
As a teacher and ensemble leader, he is keen to seek a balance between technique and exploration. A robust technique is meaningless if it does not form the basis for a playful exploration and communication with colleagues and audience.
John is an avid gamer, comic book reader, and tech-nerd. He retains an interest in scientific and mathematical developments and tries to stay up to date with the latest news and advances related to his previous studies. He is now based in Canberra where he has decades of learning the finer points of gardening and vegetable growing ahead of him.
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Time
(Sunday) 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM(GMT+10:00)
Location
North Belconnen Uniting Church
Organizer
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november 2023
06nov(nov 6)5:19 AM13(nov 13)5:19 AMACT: ENCORE (Online): Shifting for Cello Players
Event Details
An ENCORE screening of the AUSTA ACT Webinar: Shifting for Cello Players, What’s in it? Presented by Megan Taylor This webinar was recorded on 22/10/2022. If you purchased tickets to the original webinar,
Event Details
An ENCORE screening of the AUSTA ACT Webinar: Shifting for Cello Players, What’s in it?
Presented by Megan Taylor
This webinar was recorded on 22/10/2022.
If you purchased tickets to the original webinar, no need to register again – you’ll be sent a link to watch the Encore recording.
The recording will be available to watch: Monday 6th November – Monday 13th November 2023.
Cost:
AUSTA Member: $10
Non Member: $15
Webinar details:
Mapping out a fingerboard is lifelong fun for cellists, including the travel between positions.
This workshop will be a forum where we discuss how to approach shifting from the earliest years of learning, right up what we do as professionals. We will look at how a good knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of shifting give us certainty and style, and how we provide a left hand base for the bow to operate on in an unencumbered way. What artistic and historical considerations do we consider to help us make choices about the mechanism and style we decide to use? What are all the mechanisms we use at different musical points? How do we organise the bow in relation to shifts?
What have anticipation, ground force, momentum and gravity to do with it? How do our bodies work? How does an understanding of anatomy help the specifics of shifting?
Megan Taylor
Megan Taylor was educated at the NSW Conservatorium of Music High School. beginning cello studies with John Painter.
After spending 1O years in London studying with Raphael Wallfisch and Stefan Popov, and working in a freelance capacity with many ensembles, Megan moved to Copenhagen to study with the European Suzuki Group, beginning a lifelong passion for learning about teaching. After returning to Sydney Megan worked with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and many touring groups such as the Royal Ballet and The Bolshoi Ballet orchestras. She undertook her Teacher Training for Alexander Technique in Sydney and began teaching Alexander Technique in Sydney including training other teachers at the Centre for Alexander Technique Studies. She taught cello at many schools in Sydney and ran many large workshops for cellists and study workshops for teachers with her colleague Pip Jackson (Philippa Harding).
Megan then moved to Canberra to undertake a B Mus (Perf) with Lois Simpson, graduating in 1994. She has been teaching both cello and Alexander in Canberra since then.
Megan has been a cello tutor at Youth Orchestras in Europe, Sydney and Canberra. She considers cello classes or tutorials essential for learning and developing the young cellist, given the highly specialised nature of the fingering system, patterns idiosyncratic for different composers, and the traditions and learning passed down through generations. That is the best fun!
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Time
6 (Monday) 5:19 AM - 13 (Monday) 5:19 AM(GMT+11:00)
february 2024
25feb2:00 PM4:30 PMACT: Pedagogy Day
Event Details
AUSTA ACT Pedagogy Day Passionate about string teaching? Join us for the AUSTA ACT String Pedagogy Day. Meet other string teachers in our region and make lifelong supportive connections and partnerships. We will begin with
Event Details
AUSTA ACT Pedagogy Day
Passionate about string teaching? Join us for the AUSTA ACT String Pedagogy Day.
Meet other string teachers in our region and make lifelong supportive connections and partnerships.
We will begin with a forum comparing the differences and particular needs of upper and lower strings: particularly useful if you conduct young players in string orchestras.
After a short break we will split up into upper and lower strings to explore ideas and approaches to skill building, and troubleshoot difficulties we all experience. Join us for an inspiring and informative afternoon!
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2024
Time: 2.00-4.30pm
Venue: Orana Steiner School,
Unwin Street Weston
Cost:
AUSTA Members: $20.00
Non Member: $30.00
Student: $10.00
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Time
(Sunday) 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM(GMT+11:00)
Location
Orana Steiner School