Beyond the Music: Building Communities that Keep Students Coming Back

TUESDAY 14th OCTOBER

Want your students to feel connected, supported, and inspired to stick with music for the long haul?
Join us on ZOOM (check your time zone) for a practical, uplifting session packed with ideas to:
✔️ Foster inclusivity & belonging
✔️ Strengthen student commitment
✔️ Create a positive, thriving culture
✔️ Build communities where young musicians love to learn & grow

Don’t miss this chance to explore strategies that go beyond the music and into what really makes students stay engaged.

Register now and find your zoom link in the confirmation email

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Presentation via Zoom only

WA – 4:30pm
QLD – 6:30pm
SA and NT – 7pm
ACT, NSW, TAS and VIC 7:30pm

SA String Showcase

The SA String Showcase, presented by AUSTA SA, is a celebration of string playing in all its forms. Open to all ages and levels, it provides a supportive, non-graded and non-competitive chance to perform. Solos, chamber music (duos, trios, quartets), and accompanied works are all welcome.

To ensure every performance shines, we strongly encourage performers to use an accompanist unless their piece is unaccompanied. An official accompanist will be provided by AUSTA SA.

Session Times

1:30pm Concert: For unaccompanied works, chamber groups, or those with their own accompanist/teacher.

3:00pm Concert: For performers using the AUSTA SA accompanist. If booked, arrive at 1:00pm for a compulsory rehearsal. Parents may drop students at 1:00pm and return at 2:45pm.

At its heart, the Showcase is about confidence, progress, and community in SA’s string world.

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Experience the AUSTA String Performance Day, an opportunity to perform in an elegant and inspiring venue.

Participants rehearse with an official AUSTA accompanist in a dedicated rehearsal space prior to presenting their performance in the Chapel.

1:30pm Concert: For unaccompanied works, chamber groups, or those with their own accompanist/teacher.

3:00pm Concert: For performers using the AUSTA SA accompanist. A compulsory rehearsal time will be emailed to you by Saturday 21 March. Parents are to bring their child to the Music Department rehearsal space at time given, then take child to the chapel between 2:45-2:55pm.

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Book by 16th May for early bird prices

SAT 2pm – 5pm Conducting & Inclusive Teaching: For all ensemble directors and group music teachers

2pm Sean Renaud presents the Secondary Schools String Symphony with a practical session on Planning Effective Rehearsals and developing strong ensemble habits, with strategies for working with teenage string players and building focused, responsive ensembles.

3:15pm Karen Kyriakou (VIC) presents Inclusive Ways to Creatively Engage Your Ensemble

4pm Rob McWilliams (QLD) presents What’s The Score – the Why and How of Effective Score Study for all Conductors and Music Educators. Come learn how to analyse a score.

SUN 9am – 5pm Conducting & String Method Books: String teacher focus & ‘The Strings Quest’ method book launch

9am Karen Kyriakou presents The Magic In The Method Book (bring your instruments)

10am Rob McWilliams presents Putting The Music First

12pm Hamish Netting presents Instrument Care and Maintenance

12:30pm Amy Suebwicha presents The Musician’s Body: How Movement and Health Play a Role

2pm Rob McWilliams presents an interactive Conducting Clinic (please volunteer your interest when booking.)

3:30pm Tom Helps presents The Strings Quest, a new String Method Book Launch: A complete method book for violin, viola, cello & double bass. 

Features include

• Easy to follow skill development
• Imaginative storytelling
• Clear visual goals with checklists
• Theory and aural exercises
• 60 original pieces and arrangements
• Each song has a main backing track + a piano version

Perfect for: 

• Individual tuition
• Mixed groups of violin, viola and cello (double bass in the works)
• School string programs
• Instrumental teachers wanting a fresh approach

4:30pm Discussion, Questions and Farewell

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Proudly sponsored by Size Music, Yamaha Australia, ABODA SA & Netting Violins