Stringendo

Stringendo

June 2025 Theme:  AUSTA 50th anniversary and National Conference

  • Musica Viva Australia enriching music education for schools
  • Performing in the life of a teacher
  • Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Evah Pirazzi strings
  • and lots more!

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For our next issue of Stringendo, we will celebrate the recent National Conference. Was there something that excited you there? What did you learn that you didn’t know before? What
was your big “WOW” moment? Think about those who were unable to attend and share with us your personal highlights from the conference.

Don’t forget – it’s AUSTA’s 50th birthday. Anything you wish to celebrate with us about AUSTA – what AUSTA means to you, how it has affected you, how it has changed you – AUSTA members want to know!

Contribute to Stringendo in 2025! The deadline for the next issue is 31 July 2025

Read Stringendo Online HERE

AUSTA now publishes four issues of Stringendo each year. Efforts are made to reflect the wide range of interests of our members and to bring us into contact with our international colleagues. We believe that we help shrink the distance between Australians living in remote areas. A portion of membership subscriptions is allocated to funding Stringendo.

Each issue contains news, reviews, letters, comments and several substantial articles on topics of interest to players, teachers and makers of stringed instruments.

Guidelines for Contributors & Advertisers:

AUSTA Publications

Responsibility for production of AUSTA national publications rests with the National Editorial Board. The Board produces two journal editions of Stringendo each calendar year, containing a mixture of contributed material, invited articles, news, reviews and short commentaries. The Board welcomes contributions from its readers, but inclusion of material in its publications is the sole prerogative of the Editor. Please note the following guidelines.

Contributions
All contributions should be sent to the National Editor.

Types of contributions sought:

  1. Information and brief news items
  2. Major articles likely to be of interest to members (1350 words)
  3. Scholarly articles (2000 words)
  4. Reviews/reports of conferences, seminars, workshops, etc., offering thoughtful and reflective accounts of personal experiences (700 words)
  5. Reviews of new string music, publications, recordings and concerts
  6. Viewpoints expressing personal opinion (max. 550 words)
  • Authors of major articles must provide an electronic copy in Word format by email to the Editor: stringendo@austa.asn.au.
  • Authors should include a two-sentence biography of themselves.
  • Articles should be in straightforward, concise English.
  • Photographs, musical examples and other illustrated material must be sharply in focus and may be submitted in colour or black and white sent electronically as a tif, jpg or pdf file.
  • Permission and sources for all images have been sought and acknowledged where possible. If the copyright owner is known but identified in the magazine, please contact the Editor immediately.
  • Copyright belongs to the author. However, the Editor reserves the right to first publication of any written material. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions in the interests of clarity and available space.
  • No material will be returned to the contributor, whether published or not.
  • For further information, please contact the National Editor – stringendo@austa.asn.au

Advertising in Stringendo

If you are interested in promoting products to the Australian market through Stringendo, please contact National Administrator Emily using the below link.

We now accept online bookings for Stringendo Advertising. Please use the link here: ONLINE BOOKING FORM 

Reviews in Stringendo

If you have published/written a book, sheet music, DVD or CD, or have a concert you wish to have reviewed,  please contact the Reviews Editor Mary Nemet using the below link.

For information on other advertising opportunities, please click HERE.

Contacts

Susan PierottiEditor
Mary NemetReviews Editor
Emily DittmanAdvertising Manager
Mina GrieveSocial Media Manager