April 2025 Student Forum Registrations
Student Forum is a monthly performance opportunity for students of WAMTA teachers. Registrations are now open for the next Student Forum concert, to be held on Saturday 5th April 2025.
Category: Updates
Australia Day Public Holiday 2025
The WAMTA Secretariat will be CLOSED on Monday 27th January 2025, since Australia Day falls on a Sunday this year. The Secretariat will reopen on Wednesday 29th January.
Open for 2025
We are back from our festive break! The WAMTA Secretariat is now open Monday / Wednesday / Friday 9am – 1pm, though is closed on the Friday following a Council meeting. (Secretariat Hours are now published on our Event Calendar) Please note that between 3 weeks of emails and reduced…
2024 Festive Season Closure
The WAMTA Secretariat will be closed for 3 weeks over the festive season. We will close on Monday 16th December 2024. During this time, emails and phone messages will not be monitored. The Secretariat will re-open on Monday 6th January 2025. From this time, Secretariat hours will return to just…
New Scam: WAMTA Distribution List
A new scam has started doing the rounds today. It appears that the scammers have again harvested contacts from our online Teacher Directory, and are offering those contacts (our members) a “WAMTA Members/Distribution list” with apparently over 1,000 contacts.. Please rest assured that neither our REAL member database nor distribution…
Piano Masterclasses with Dr Elyane Laussade
In September, a superb pianist, Elyane Laussade, will be in Perth for a week. Elyane is a graduate of The Juilliard School in the USA, a laureate of many international piano competitions, including the Sydney International, and a prolific recitalist and concerto artist. She has performed all the Mozart concertos, the…
Melanie Spanswick in Perth – 6 July 2024
Acclaimed pianist, author, teacher, and composer, Melanie Spanswick is on her way to Australia! Alongside her presentations and keynote at APPC in Melbourne, Zenith Music, Hal Leonard Australia and Schott Music are excited to bring Melanie to Perth for a 2 hour workshop on “Teaching Technique”. Melanie will also be…
June 2024 Presto now available
The June 2024 edition of the Presto magazine is now available! As well as WAMTA news and upcoming events, you can learn more about our WAMTA president Marina Knoote. We also look at pros and cons of music exams and competitions. Log in to the website to access our archive…
Act Belong Commit Community Partner
We’re delighted to have become an Act Belong Commit community partner! You’ll notice the Act Belong Commit logo on both the WAMTA and WAMTA Recital & Concerto Competition websites and event promotions going forward, as the Act Belong Commit message fits in perfectly with what we stand for. Our events…
New RCC Website
The Recital & Concerto Competition is now in its 100th year! As part of the celebrations of this massive milestone, we’ve overhauled the RCC website, to now include blog posts to be able to provide regular updates, and a heap of other smarts to help make information as easy to…