WAMTA Teaching and Accredited Teaching members receive a free profile listing on on WA Music Teachers Directory website as a membership perk. Relevant affiliated services, such as piano tuning, instrument repairs etc, can now purchase a listing on either (or both) this WAMTA website in the Teacher Resources section, and…
Teaching and Accredited Teaching members currently enjoy a free teacher license for MATT Studio as a perk of WAMTA membership. MATT will be rebranded as MusicApprentice, developed by Gradus Software. This change is due to the significant developments MATT has undergone based on feedback from our various stakeholders. Just a few…
Our first event for 2024 is a coffee morning at Mid Century Cafe in Yokine. Join WAMTA Vice President June Clark and your music teacher colleagues for a cuppa and a chat, from 10am on Tuesday 23rd January 2024. Please RSVP so we can book an appropriately sized table.
The WAMTA Office is now closed for the festive season. We will reopen on Monday 15th January 2024. Wishing you all a safe and happy festive season!
Our WA music teacher directory has had an enormous overhaul. It is now a dedicated site with its own URL, and has a significantly improved search functionality. The site is responsive, so that it can be accessed on a mobile phone. And with the help of an SEO expert, WAMTA…
Issue 522 of our quarterly magazine “Presto” is now available for all members to download. This issue includes the recommended teaching fees for 2024, dates for your diary for the first few months of the new year, reports from our recent events, and a variety of articles both practical and…
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…
