Music News
Rachel Snedden
Instrumental Music Program Assembly
Friday 26 November, followed by the Summer Musical Soiree after school. Times and venues yet to be confirmed.
ENROLMENT for 2022 is now open!
THE CNPS INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAM ENROLMENT FORM FOR 2022 is in a new format this year. It is a GoogleDoc Form.
To enrol your child in the 2022 Instrumental Music Program, please submit the form by MONDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2021. One form per student. Please note that you are most welcome to submit the form before the due date.
It is expected that the enrolment form will remain open after the due date, but please be mindful that priority for before school and after school lesson times will be given to families who have completed their enrolment by the due date.
All current music students will soon be sent an invitation to submit the form via email from their current music tutor, with their recommendations for 2022.
For new students, please use this link.
Instrumental Music Lessons and School Music Groups will commence in the first full week of Term 1, 2022.
Late applications may not be considered.
Any questions, please ask RACHEL SNEDDEN - Music Administrator - rachelhsnedden@fyffemusic.com
A musical note for Grade 1 Students
Would you like to play a musical instrument?
For more than 35 years, Carlton North Primary has offered students an outstanding Instrumental Music Program.
The Instrumental Music Program aims to help parents provide their children with an opportunity to learn a musical instrument within the school community.
The program offers INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC LESSONS on a range of instruments with qualified and experienced instrumental music tutors.
The program also offers SCHOOL MUSIC GROUPS that are designed to complement the instruments offered by the Instrumental Music Program with qualified and experienced music conductors.
Learning a musical instrument consolidates students' learning and promotes the development of important aspects of personal management including: self-confidence, executive brain function, memory, social skills, team building and wellbeing. Please see the following 4.5 minute TED-Ed by Dr Anita Collins showing how playing music makes “fireworks go off all over your brain”.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anita_collins_how_playing_an_instrument_benefits_your_brain?language=en
Students who will be in Year 2 in 2022 are warmly invited to begin:
Recorder lessons with Rachel Snedden, in small group lessons after school on Tuesdays and Fridays - please see Bio and introductory video of our exceptional Recorder Tutor – Rachel Snedden, in last weeks newsletter.
Violin lessons with Kate Connor, in paired lessons before school on Fridays.
Please see below for the Bio and introductory video of our wonderful Violin Tutor – Kate Connor.
INTRODUCTORY VIOLIN VIDEO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/197BhUR3CeKlFG_BFxFe22pMVAL3LJeHB/view
My name is Kate Connor and I have been teaching violin at Carlton North since 2011. I teach students individually and in groups and also run the String Ensemble on Friday lunchtimes which also includes several guitar players. I love watching the students become steadily confident in their instrument and especially love seeing the pride and excitement of the students at the various performances we have organised throughout the year. I teach a variety of styles - folk, classical, bluegrass and world. I have been a violinist in various ensembles including contemporary improvisational string quartets, Celtic groups, acoustic folk and rock bands and gypsy ensembles over the last 25 years. I was a founding member of popular local band Adana who released two CDs and played at many festivals I was also a member of Disaster Plan, who produced five CDs and the Shljivovitz Orchestra, a seven piece authentic Balkan folk ensemble, playing melodies from the Balkans including Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. I have been a guest musician on CD recordings and performances for many Melbourne artists including Kim Salmon, Lilith Lane, Charlie Marshall, Major Chord, Tobias Hengeveld, the Dead Salesmen and Cam Butler. I played and recorded with Bill Callahan (Smog) on his Australian tour and have toured Europe with Black Pony Express. I have also performed music for a number of live theatre productions as well as scoring my own music for several of these productions. My current projects include Ross Mclennan and his World Sympathique , the Devil Goat Family String Band, a bluegrass outfit that has been gigging extensively for several years, Andy Baylor’s Banksia Band and The Maya Dreamers (experimental pop).
Thanks, Kate
Would you like to Sing?
The Lee Street Choir is looking for new members to start next year. Choir meets for the first half lunchtime on Mondays. The first Choir performance for the year will be the School Fete.
Please see below for the Bio of our fantastic Choir Conductor – Emily Bennett.
Emily Bennett holds two Bachelor degrees; one in Theatre/Media from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst and one in Professional Music Practice from the Australian National University in Canberra. She completed her Honours in Jazz and Improvisation from the University of Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts and has worked with young people through The Song Room, Young Music Society in Canberra, Nillumbik Council arts program and Carlton North Primary School. She has mentored and taught both professional educators and musicians through her work at Fitzroy High School, Templestowe College, Alice Miller School, the Bianca Fenn School of Music in Greensborough and her private studio.
Around Melbourne you’ll catch her improvising at the Make It Up Club, performing with her band in bars and clubs, DJing with live electronics in music venues, collaborating with other artists and musicians in site-specific spaces and singing contemporary and lesser known choral works with the ASTRA Choir.
