WASO’s reimagined community musician experience, Side-by-Side Symphony, is similar in concept to their previous community event The Rusty Orchestra, with experienced musicians aged 25+ years from across Western Australia performing alongside WASO musicians, to create the Side-by-Side Symphony. In June 2024, community musicians have the extraordinary opportunity to learn from and…
Led by internationally acclaimed performers and academics Cecilia Sun, Sara Macliver and Shaun Lee-Chen, the Irwin Street Collective is committed to daring and novel approaches to the playing, teaching, and researching historically informed performance practices. Beethoven’s ten sonatas for piano and violin remain the most significant exploration of the potential…
Would you like a technique ‘refresher’ to help you revive your teaching ideas over the long holiday period? Would you like to update your knowledge and skills, or re-visit some ideas of how to provide technique choices for your students? Join AMEB examiner Valerie Lang at Zenith Music Claremont on Friday…
Sunday 5th November at 12 pm AWST (2pm AEST) In this session, teachers will be able to view examples of what questions look like in the theory exams for various grades. It will focus on what examiners are looking for and how questions are marked, particularly with the creative and harmony…
The next Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference will be held in July 2024 at Monash University. As on previous occasions, theyare holding a composition competition with the aim of fostering new repertoire for young players. This time, the competition will be arranged in two sections, (a) school age and (b) open…
To help promote our Teacher members, we have created new business cards that contain the details of our new Teachers Directory, that we will leave at music stores around the Perth metropolitan area.
Celebrate the festive season and the end of another year with us at our annual WAMTA Christmas lunch! This year we will return to the Como Hotel, which offers flexible a la carte options, on Friday 1st December 2023 from 12 noon. Please RSVP below so that we can book…
Issue 521 (July – September 2023) of the Presto magazine is now available! In this issue, you’ll find a run down of the recent Recital & Concerto Competition, get to know WAMTA Council member Inna Fursa, and find tips on teaching rhythm.
Entries are now open for the next monthly student concert (“Student Forum”) to be held on Saturday 7th October 2023. This is one of our most popular perks of WAMTA membership, open to students of WAMTA teachers. Entries will close on Wed 4th October 2023, or when an hour long…
Join us for a Masterclass with Geoffrey Lancaster on 30th September 2023 at Zenith Music, Claremont, commencing at 2:30 pm. Five students at a Grade 6 level or above are invited to present one piece for Geoffrey. The pieces being performed so far are: Please register students to perform below….
