AUSTA News 2024
ADELAIDE STUDENT STRING ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP
TERM 1 ADELAIDE STUDENT STRING ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP Including Adult student group. St Peter
Loreta Fin 2018 Conference notes retraction
It has come to my attention that one of the papers I authored and presented at the 2018 AUSTA National String Conference in Perth and included on the AUSTA Website Resources page was flagged as problematic with regards to copyright and permission of some elements of the content. The paper indeed contained images that acknowledge the author Barbara Barber,...
AUSTA VIC – 40 Years of Newsletters
The first AUSTA VIC Newsletter was published at the end of
AUSTA VIC – Card Payments
Did you know that AUSTA VIC can now accept card payments at our events?
North Qld Celebration of Strings
Celebration of Strings 2018
5 Exciting Orchestras!
Workshops Friday 19
AUSTA Patron Richard Gill Honoured
AUSTA patron Richard Gill has recently received an Arts Leadership Award. Angus McPherson's article, recently published in Limelight
Conference Session Notes
Notes from the National Conference Sessions are being updated progressively. New today, session notes for the Violin Forums (1.5 & 2.5) and the Set UP For Success Forum (3.4). Go to the Interactive Program to link to the notes.
AUSTA ACT Report
We have had a fairly quiet start to the year with just one event so far. We held a Bowing Workshop with Rosemary Macphail presenting a session called
AUSTA Tasmania – upcoming events
AUSTA Tasmania has the following events planned for the coming months. As registrations open, they will be published under events.
Australian Honours for Elizabeth Morgan AM
AUSTA Founding Chair and Patron, Elizabeth Morgan has been recognised in the 2013 Australian Queen
How to improve String Technique and Musicianship
(in just twenty minutes a day!)
Music, perhaps more than any other human activity, enlists the synthetic cooperation of intellect, creativity and athleticism. As a physician and psychotherapist who spent nearly a decade working with students of classical music, I was deeply impressed by this inextricable interrelationship between mind and body. Eventually I devised a method of practice designed to...
How I Teach The Bass
My teaching methods have changed markedly over the years, partly through experience but also from my solo work and commissioning many new works for double bass. Three of my teachers (Laurence Gray, Bronwen Naish and Franti
The Joys of Teaching Beginner Violinists
Teaching beginner violinists is an incomparable, stimulating and enjoyable occupation. Each child is uniquely individual; every day produces new challenges and rewards. The last four decades have seen great improvements in beginners
The left hand
Professor Jan Sedivka, who had few peers in his knowledge of the workings of the left hand, left an important legacy of thought on the subject. Here are some of his ideas on tackling the problem of left hand asymmetry. Gleaned from my experience in teaching as his assistant for ten years and also from the video tapes he...
I teach what I needed to learn
How would you make progress with this challenging student? Let