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 Foundation 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 1 in 2022 are warmly invited to begin recorder lessons with Rachel Snedden, in small group lessons after school on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Please see below for the Bio and introductory video of our exceptional Recorder Tutor – Rachel Snedden.
INTRODUCTORY VIDEO https://youtu.be/QLDTKQHjWjQ
My name is Rachel Snedden. I have been the recorder tutor at Lee Street since 1995 and have seen generation after generation of wonderful students develop their skills in making music and have a great time doing it! Since 2005, I have also been Musical Director, which means that I have helped run the IMP at CNPS, mostly with planning, enrolment, timetabling and organising the performances.
Apart from teaching at CNPS I also teach at Merri Creek Primary and MLC. I have some private students of high-school age and direct RECORDICA, a high-school aged recorder group. I also conduct the Melbourne Recorder Orchestra, a group of 30, mostly retired people, who love making music together on all the different sizes of recorder.
I began playing the recorder when I was seven, having lessons at school in England. My parents found a place for me to continue playing recorder in a group when I returned to Melbourne. I continued playing recorder all through primary school and into high school, when I began recorder lessons again. I played recorder for VCE Music and went on to study recorder for my BMus from Melbourne University. By the time I was half-way though my BMus I had started working at CNPS as the recorder tutor!
After teaching for ten years, I set about writing my very own series of recorder tutor books, the Rainbow Recorder Series (RRS). The books take students from beginner level to AMEB exam level in seven stages. Many recorder students from CNPS sit recorder exams. Learning to play the recorder in lessons is complemented by ensemble playing. Playing in an ensemble with your school friends gives particular meaning to your music making. When students have enough musical skills playing the first five notes and various rhythms, they are invited to join the Junior Recorder Ensemble. In this group we learn how to play together and in parts and, especially, how to keep the beat. Students continue to develop their skills in lessons and when they graduate to the RRS Blue Book they are invited to join the Senior Recorder Ensemble. In this group we play more complicated music and some students play on different-sized recorders. Students also learn to play the treble recorder from the RRS Indigo Book. Some students learn to play the bass recorder from the RRS Black Book of Bass. This Senior Recorder Ensemble has participated in the Monash youth Music Festival (formally Waverley Music Eisteddfod) since 1999. It is a great honour to represent the school at a ‘state level’ music event. We also very much enjoy playing at the Fete, the Winter Soirée, Assembly and the Summer Soirée.
I look forward to the next 25 years of making music at CNPS! Rachel Snedden
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.
photo credit: Stephen Leek
