Events
2022-2023
Term 1: September 5th to December 9th, 2022
Creative Christmas Music Camp: December 12th to December 16th, 9:30am to 3pm, 2022
2021-2022
Term 3: April 20th to July 7th, 2022
Creative Summer Music Camp: July 11th to July 15th, 9:30am to 3pm, 2022
End of Year Concert: July 5th, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, 2022
Term 1: September 8th to December 15th
Creative Christmas Music Camp: December 16th to December 22nd, 9:30am to 3pm, 2021
Term 3: April 21st to July 7th, 2021
Creative Summer Music Camp: July 12th to July 16th, 9:30am to 3pm, 2021
End of Year Concert: July 5th, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, 2021
ABRSM Performance Examinations: July 3rd, 2021
ABRSM Theory Examinations: May 26th to June 23rd, 2021
Creative Christmas Music Camp: December 14th to December 18th, 9:30am to 3pm, 2020
Term 3: April 21st to July 6th, 2020
Creative Music Camp: March 30th to April 3rd, 9:30am to 3pm, 2020
ABRSM Examinations: March 18th, 2020
Term 2: January 7th to March 24th, 2020
Creative Christmas Camp: December 16th to December 20th, 9:30am to 3pm
ABRSM Examinations: November 26th, 2019
Term 1: September 5th to December 10th
Creative Music Camp: July 15th to July 19th, 9:30am-3:30pm, 2019
Pre-Prep and Pre End of Year Concert: July 4th, 9:15am-9:45am, 2019
End of Year Concert: July 9th, 5:30pm-7pm, 2019
ABRSM Examinations: July 3rd, 20192
Creative Music Camps
We have been running Creative Music Camps for over ten years.
Creativity is the theme of our camps and we base the whole week on fostering and developing participants’ creativity, awareness, appreciation and joy of music through creative outlets.
While each camp offers new and exciting activities for the participants, the broad outline of a camp is as follows:
The course includes lots of singing, dance, improvisation and group instrumental playing to help foster aural, melodic and rhythmic skills.
The children use tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments and explore pitch and rhythms in controlled activities.
Through the Kodaly method, children explore simple melodies and songs. They work on intonation and internalising rhythms and melodies; keeping a steady pulse; plus recognising high and low, loud and soft, and short and fast sounds in music. Instruments from the orchestra are introduced, giving the children a chance to see, hear and learn about the instruments of the orchestra.
The emphasis is fun and exploration, using music related games and activities helping to stimulate an interest in music making.
Skills developed throughout the course include music reading abilities, aural, pitch and rhythm awareness, music theory (focusing on preparing for the graded theory exams) and performing arts skills.
Composition and ensemble playing are explored, in addition to the children learning various choreographed songs, incorporating the Kodaly method to help develop rhythm, composition, listening, ensemble and performance skills.
With many of the participants working towards both performance and theory ABRSM examinations, the course is designed to help better prepare them for the various facets of these assessments in a relaxed and fun environment.