MICN Brisbane Conference Saturday, 25 September 2010
August 1st, 2010
Hot on the heels of a very successful MICN regional conference in Wollongong, MICN is pleased to announce a Music In Communities Networking Conference in Brisbane at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music from 9am to 4pm, Saturday 25 September 2010. Bookings for this conference are open. Click here to register!
“The best part about the day was realising that I am on the right track, sharing my musicality with people who used to think they weren’t good enough to be involved and to sing out loud and long for the rest of their lives. I want to do more and I feel this is the beginning of something great.”
The conference will be an invaluable opportunity for you to meet with other music makers in your community. You’ll hear great success stories from some wonderful community music champions, and learn the strategies and methods behind their success. You’ll have the opportunity to workshop your own challenges and share your successes with others.
“I enjoyed hearing about other projects that are happening in the community, putting faces to names and meeting new people.”
Who Should Attend: Leaders and administrators of community music groups, music therapists, music teachers, those considering starting a music group, local council cultural officers, delegates from cultural centres, conservatoria and music schools, and anyone with a passion for making music happen.
“The best thing for me was that, this day confirmed for me the desire in people for community music. The second best thing was assuring me that there is a network out there that I can call on for help and advice!”
Early bird Discount: Those who book before Monday 30 August will be eligible for an early bird discount of $10.00.
Costs
MICN paid-up members $60 ($50 with early bird discount). Non-members $85 incl. 1 year MICN membership ($75 with early bird discount).
Registration: To register click here!
Music Council of Australia 17th Annual General Assembly
MICN Brisbane delegates who wish to attend the Assembly are eligible for a multi conference discount on their MCA Assembly registration fee. Click here for details.
Speakers
We are very pleased to be able to present a marvellous line up of community music leaders to share their success stories with you and to offer their invaluable insights and strategies for success in community music making.
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Lecturer in Research & Music Literature at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. She is actively involved in community music activities both as a researcher and practitioner. She was Research Fellow on the Australia Research Council funded project Sound Links (2007-2008), one of Australia’s largest studies into the dynamics of community music. Her recent research focuses on a cross-cultural collaborative project with Indigenous musicians from Barkly Regional Arts in Central Australia and undergraduate music and education students from Brisbane (2009-2010). She is a Commissioner on the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Activities Commission and has served as a National Judge for the Music Council of Australia’s Music in Communities Awards. She is also on the editorial board for the International Journal of Community Music. As a community music facilitator she has conducted a number of bands, orchestras, choirs, and jazz ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. She has worked as a sessional lecturer at the University of Queensland and a multi-instrumental teacher in schools in Brisbane and Bangkok.
Rhonda Davidson-Irwin has taught more than 10,000 children, performed for Queen Elizabeth, Bill Clinton and Muhammad Ali, composed more than 900 songs for children’s TV showsIn the Box and Puzzle Play and established one of Queensland’s most dynamic orchestras, Viva La Musica. Rhonda has written and directed thirty children’s performances with the Queensland Symphony, Philharmonic and the VLM Orchestras. She composed the music for the 2004 Athens Olympics and more recently, the Warner Brothers’ Great Outback Spectacular. A talented musician, Rhonda’s CDs have been distributed worldwide, one album going Gold. Rhonda initially qualified as a primary school music specialist and wrote both the Australian National Arts Curriculum and the Queensland Music Curriculum. For fifteen years she has also lectured part-time in early childhood and music education at QUT. Recently Rhonda has been working on the Music Council of Australia’s new national advertising campaign –Music. Play for Life. Rhonda holds a Bachelor of Music (Music Education).
Dr Susan West, B.Mus Performance (Melb.), Grad.Dip. (Kodaly Insitute, Hungary), M.Ed. Gifted and Talented (Charles Sturt); PhD (Music) (ANU).Dr Susan West brings to her role as Convener of the innovative Music Education Program over thirty years experience as a performer, educator, composer and arranger. Her work in developing pre-tertiary music programs and post-graduate teacher-training is at the cutting edge of music education with wide-ranging influences from traditional music philosophies, both ancient and modern, to holistic and therapeutic uses of music. Susan is trained in music performance, music education, and gifted and talented education. She played Principal Piccolo with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and then Associate Principal and Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1981-1985 as well as touring as a member of the Australian Wind Virtuosi.She was invited to the Canberra School of Music in 1984 to help establish the Music Education Program and, in 1998, developed the Hand-in-Hand outreach program that focuses on uniting children and the community in shared, altruistic music-making. Dr West’s work is studied by local and international students and the focus of a series of documentaries by Ronin Films. She has been recognised through various awards, including a National Children’s Week Award, a National Women’s Day Award, a citation for Teaching Excellence and a community award from the Music Council of Australia.
John Roderiquez facilitates public and private Playshops to help people explore their voice, and to build confidence in their innate ability to “Sing for Joy”. He has facilitated singing workshops for the Australian Acting Academy, Metagenics, Logan City Council and a number of allied health organisations. He is a singer/songwriter, twice awarded for songwriting in the international arena. He is a member of the Freedom Train community choir, was a member of the QPAC Inaugural community choir and has recently returned from a community music Sing-posium run by Jonathan Welch in Melbourne.Passionate about social inclusion and social justice, he is now the Project Coordinator for Mixed Beans multicultural community choir. John is qualified in Human Resource Management and in Community Engagement, with 20+ years experience across a broad range of industry sectors and local government, also sitting on the board of a local community transport organisation. You can read more about John’s work at singyourvoice.com
Cath Mundy is an internationally touring & recording artist, currently in MUNDY-TURNER and formerly in acclaimed female acappella trio Sister Moon Ensemble. She has enjoyed the privilege of working as a professional performing artist in theatre & music for most of the last two decades as a singer, composer, vocal arranger, musical director, actor, musician, dancer, workshop facilitator and more!
As one half of acoustic music duo Mundy-Turner with British singer-songwriter Jay Turner, Cath has released 6 albums of original material, won a Sunnie Award for Best Folk album in 1998, toured festivals and music venues in six different countries and recently featured in the Q150 Shed Tour.
Michelle Leonard is the founding Artistic Director and conductor of the Leichhardt Espresso Chorus, the Moorambilla Voices Regional Children’s Choirs and Festival Director of theMoorambilla Festival.
As a board member of the Music Council of Australia and new national choral mentor for the Music in Communities Network, she is actively involved in advocating for choirs through articles, presentations and workshops.
Michelle is widely sought after as a choral clinician particularly on Australian repertoire and she facilitates compositional workshops for special projects.
Michelle’s career includes a period as assistant conductor of the Sydney Children’s Choir, she has been conductor in residence for Gondwana Voices (Junior 2008), was recently Choir Master for the Festival of Sydney’s Lost and Found Orchestra and also for the 2010 Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Michelle conducted the inaugural Moorambilla Voices touring choir for its 2008 Sydney Opera House performance that celebrated regional indigenous culture and reconciliation on the occasion of Patrick Dodson’s Sydney Peace Prize lecture.
Vivienne Winther is Artistic Director of Stopera, the ACT’s chamber opera company, and has played a leading role in the production and performance of more than twenty notable opera and concert events for the company since 1997. She is also Artistic Director of Music For Everyone, the ACT’s community music organisation and a part-time lecturer in piano at the ANU School of Music. She began her professional career as an opera repetiteur with Canberra Opera until moving to Hong Kong where she was Chief Repetiteur for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Graduate Opera School, assisting conductor Carlo Felice Cillario. Vivienne has accompanied and coached singers from Opera Australia, Victorian State Opera, ChamberMade Opera, Beijing Central Opera, and Cologne Opera. In November 2005, Vivienne was named The Canberra Times Artist of the Year, for her uncompromising vision and achievement in gaining national and international recognition for opera in the ACT.
