Gunnedah Conservatorium

IT’S TIME TO FOCUS ON THEORY! Join us for a 3-day music theory workshop (AMEB Music Craft) with Sandy. This workshop is designed for competent students who have studied their instrument/voice for more than two years. This course will help them improve their music literacy and assist their practical understanding. This course is essential for students completing practical AMEB exams from Grade 1. Wed/Thurs will consist of Music Craft and on Fri students will complete an online/practice exam.

The Whitlams' alt-country offshoot sees Tim Freedman and drummer Terepai Richmond joined by an A-Team of country musicians. The band has 55 Gold Guitars and 10 ARIAs between them, with two CMAA Producers of the Year - Rod McCormack and Matt Fell - joined by Ollie Thorpe on pedal steel. This exciting new line up reconstructs The Whitlams' staples like 'No Aphrodisiac’, ‘Blow Up the Pokies’ and 'You Sound Like Louis Burdett', plays some new originals and pulls out a batch of surprising Americana

The Sentimental Bloke is a 1919 Australian silent film based on C. J. Dennis’s tales of working-class life and love in the backstreets of Melbourne. In 2019, the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) of Australia digitally restored the film to mark its 100th anniversary as part of the NFSA Restores program. In 2021, composer and pianist Ian Munro composed a new score for the film using Australian songs from the period of the film.

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Alexander Gadjiev is the First Prize winner of the Sydney international Piano competition award in 2021 and has performed at prestigious festivals, including Verbier, the Rubinstein Festival in Łódź, the Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Ravenna Musica and the Kammermusik Salzburg Festival. Alexander is an in demand soloist with orchestras, and as a recitalist, he has performed in the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Great Hall of Ljubljana’s Philharmonie, and La Fenice in Venice.

Sensory Concerts is a series of high-quality classical concerts for children and adults with sensory/special needs, directed by Grace Kim.  An internationally respected concert pianist and music educator, Grace and her colleagues perform to small audiences in accommodating spaces, giving children and adults the opportunity to hear and see live music without feeling overwhelmed.

Sensory Concerts is a series of high-quality classical concerts for children and adults with sensory/special needs, directed by Grace Kim. An internationally respected concert pianist and music educator, Grace and her colleagues perform to small audiences in accommodating spaces, giving children and adults the opportunity to hear and see live music without feeling overwhelmed.

Grace Kim, a Winston Churchill Fellow, concert pianist and educator will give a talk about music education, with practical information and strategies for teaching music to neurodiverse students. There will be Q&A discussion open to all educators. Parents welcome.

Double Bill by The Space Company TWO POWERFUL YET FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIAN STORIES UNCOVERING OUR PAST TO REVEAL WHO WE ARE TODAY Family secrets are revealed in double bill Stardust + The Mission – two original Australian stories about love, music, war and all the things that people leave behind... Recommended age: 15+ DISCOVER VOUCHERS can be redeemed in person at the Gunnedah Conservatorium Admin Office call 6742 3998

Create a one minute video with soundscape that captures a story and moment in time. Learn different types of composition and sound scaping along with the technical tools required to complete a project. Skill level - Intermediate. High school students & up The team will be about until 4 each day so bring your laptop and headphones and work in the Con so you have help and tutors on hand!

Come and join the team from The House that Dan Built and TOY CHOIR for a day of making music! Skill level - ALL beginners to advanced. AGES - 8 & up

Join us for an active, creative and playful session of musical learning. This session will provide an outline of what Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training Levels are all about and what you can expect. It's a chance to ask any questions you might have about this approach to creative music education.

Register NOW for our popular Early Childhood Music Classes If you have any questions or have already booked/completed an enrolment form please phone the office 6742 3998. If you would like to book children in different classes, select Buy More Tickets @ Checkout

This is your opportunity to shine! Step up and out at the Gunnedah Show and perform alongside other locals on the community stage. Register by 26March and you will be notified by your performance time by 28 March. Individual and group performers are responsible for gate entry to show.

Head out for an afternoon of music at the Kelvin Hall. You will be sitting at tables so bring along some nibbles and drinks to share and the hall committee will have tea, coffee and sweets on sale. Formed in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001 Stephen Taberner, the Spooky Men soon attracted attention with a combination of Georgian table songs, pindrop beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers, and immaculate man anthems like ‘Don’t stand between a man and his tool'.

What better way to show the special people in your life how much you love than with a song from the heart? WE will serenad your loved on on the door stop, at work, lunch or dinner.

Gunnedah Conservatorium's early childhood music program is a wonderful introduction to the world of music for children and their families. Due to high demand for classes and places, enrolment is secured through trybooking. Classes will run based on minimum numbers. If your class does not proceed, you will be refunded through trybooking.

E.S MALAIKA is the indie-pop-electronic artist project of independent singer-songwriter Sewa Emojong. Sewa Emojong is a regionally based songwriter and former student of Gunnedah Conservatorium with a background working with young people. Sewa is brings her years of experience as a musician to share key insights about songwriting, and allow young people to have fun delving into their creativity at the Beginner Songwriters Workshop!

Beat the heat and head upstairs at the Conservatorium for a fantastic hour of Music with meg. Meg Clowes is our early childhood music teacher and this school holiday activity well keep the little kids enthralled for sixty minutes. For children aged between 3 and 5 (preschool) this will be a great taster for families interested in our early childhood music program.

Bring your own picnic and esky & join us for A Christmas Carol panto based on Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale. The city awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Scrooge thinks it's all humbug, berating her faithful clerk and anyone who will listen. Later, Scrooge encounters the ghost of his late business partners, who warn that three spirits will visit him this night. The ghosts take Scrooge on a journey through his past, present and future in the hope of transforming her.

As the year draws to a close, studio concerts are a great opportunity for students to perform in relaxed recital setting. Join us on December 14 at the Civic for the studio concert featuring students from the studios of Colin Gutteridge, Joel Pickett and Emma Kersley. Tickets are free, however due to limited seating please book seating as soon as possible.

JANE RUTTER is MADAME FLUTE! A PARISIAN - ITALIAN SALON with JANE RUTTER, flute. Guest artist: Guitarist Giuseppe Zangari Enjoy a concert of Fabulous French and Italian Music! Virtuosi instrumentalists flautist Jane Rutter and guitarist Giuseppe Zangari, celebrate the music of France and Italy in a concert to uplift the spirits and make the heart sing! Featuring Classical favourites, Italian Dances, Cabaret pieces and instrumental Chansons.

Join us on July 20 for the Midwinter studio concert! Featuring students from Sandy Clark's studio with guest performers from Colin Gutteridge's and Joel Pickett's studios. This will be a wonderful opportunity to see some of the great performances from the Eisteddfod as well as exam preparation work and progress. Students to arrive at 6.30pm Doors open at 7pm for a 7.15pm start (finish by 8.30pm)

Join us for the Gunnedah premiere of In the Heights (10:30am in the morning doesn't count!). In the Heights is Director Jon M. Chu's joyous stage-to-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' Tony Award-winning Broadway musical about a group of neighbour who live in the same predominantly Latin neighbourhood of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan.

For ages 7 to 14. Come and spend a day at the Conservatorium and experience the range of opportunities available at Gunnedah Conservatorium including singing, piano, woodwind, drums, guitar and much more!

At the forefront of chamber music, Nexas Quartet are leaders in promoting existing and creating new repertoire for the saxophone quartet. Featuring Michael Duke (soprano saxophone), Andrew Smith (Alto saxophone, Nathan Henshaw (tenor saxophone) and Jay Byrnes (baritone saxophone).

Straight off the back of acclaimed live dates across New South Wales, Crighton returns with his new single ‘This Is Magic’. ‘This Is Magic’ is the follow up to Crighton’s powerful ‘Your Country’ released in 2020, and the second track to be lifted from his forthcoming third studio album, due out in 2021.

Join us for a performance with Dominic Goodwin-Hauck as part of his Bachelor of Music Studies. Dominic will introduce the classical guitar and play from Baroque to Modern styles, and demonstrate how the style allows you to be your own band.

Here's your chance to see the great coming of age movie classic on the big screen and support a good cause at the same time.

Join Tim Freedman on his first regional solo tour with a bunch of classics and a new single. The Whitlams’ catalogue is full of iconic urban tales, but their new song takes the boy out of the city and places him firmly in the country - driving through the hills to see a “Man About a Dog”, just as the drought breaks. SOLD OUT, TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR TAMWORTH SHOW ON THURS 29 APR https://www.capitoltheatretamworth.com.au/

After wowing local audiences in 2018, Emma returns Gunnedah with her quartet. Her effortless honest stage presence combined with her powerful vocal ability, leaves audiences spellbound and inspired. The Emma Pask Quartet is sure to delight as Pask interweaves storytelling with timeless swinging jazz standards, upbeat Latin rhythms. If you would like to use you Discover NSW ticket for this event, please make sure you select that ticket option.

Music with Meg at the Gunnedah Conservatorium

As the year draws to a close, studio concerts are a great opportunity for invited students to perform in relaxed recital setting. This years studio concert will be held Upstairs at the Conservatorium, Town Hall, The Civic and the Creative Arts Centre Gallery. Parents and family of students are given priority attendance and if space allows the general community are welcome to attend these events.

Join us for an evening picnic on Pensioners Hill to farewell Julia and Gary Rennick and thank them for their contribution to Gunnedah and in particular Gunnedah Conservatorium. Back you picnic basket, chairs and blankets for an evening farewell as the sun sets on Gunnedah.

A supermum, flatmates, a country singer, a family cruise .... nothing out of the ordinary until you throw in a world-wide pandemic. This local production has no answers but has been created in Gunnedah 2020 and puts the spotlight and some of what this year has brought with it from the relative safety of the Gunnedah Town Hall. Unashamedly local, this is a new work created just for Gunnedah at this time. Rated MA15+ Coarse language and sexual references.

Members of Gunnedah Conservatorium are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting for the orgnisation on Wednesday 27 October. Please arrive at 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Financial Report to be presented and election of office bearers.

FOUR FRIENDS - ONE PASSION United by their passion for chamber music, the Enigma Quartet has a pure and joyful love for what they do and how they share it with audiences.​ Comprised of successful artists in their own right, and holding coveted positions in Australia's top orchestras, they choose to learn, play and perform together because they love doing it and have far too much fun together.​

Enigma Quarter introduces young children to the String Family in this concert aimed at preschoolers to the String Family. This concert is suitable for children 2 years and up and their families.

Workshop: 29 August 9am to 12noon Trial Exam: 12 September 9am to 12noon These activities are designed to assist students preparing for an AMEB exam, and cover the areas of General Knowledge, Sight Reading and Aural Tests. The trial exam is to give students an experience similar to the exams and will be especially valuable for students preparing for their first exam. Students can book into one or both activities.

World renowned guitar Virtuoso Bruce Mathiske captivates with his musically evocative celebration of this vibrant and diverse instrument. Mathiske's acclaimed and musical excellence features many genres inspired by classical styles and Latin flavours, rhythms and sounds, woven together with rhythmic authenticity. “Displays technical brilliance and mastery of genres with an admirable absence of ostentation. Mathiske is the finest all-round guitarist this country has produced”- Tony Hillier

Get ready to dance the night away and be blown away by stellar performances by some of Sydney’s best dancers! There will also be a FREE Salsa workshop ahead of the concert at 5pm, please indicate when purchasing tickets if you will be attending. Seating will be in tables, please fill in the box with TABLE NAME when purchasing tickets if you would like to be seated with a group. This is a BYO food and drink event. Please share our event on Facebook and with your networks.

These lessons are a perfect introduction to music for children 5 to 10 years. In small group learning situations children will be introduced to their chosen instrument. Groups MUST HAVE a minimum of 3 students to start, and will be capped at 8. Hire instruments are available for STRINGS and DJEMBE while members of the UKUELE group will be required to purchase their own ukulele and book. Ongoing term fee is $100/term, pro-rata for Term 1 2020 depending on start date. Instrument hire additional

Register NOW for our popular Early Childhood Music Classes If you have any questions or have already booked/completed an enrolment form please phone the office 6742 3998. If you would like to book children in different classes, select Buy More Tickets @ Checkout ECM Baby Class (6 to 18 months) Monday 9:00am-9.45am ECM Toddler Class (18m to under 3) Monday 10:00am-10:45am ECM 4-5 years Wednesday 9.15am-10.15am ECM 3-4 years Wednesday 10:30am-11:30am ECM 3-4 years Thursday 10am - 11am

Join the mutual admiration society of two pianists. A two-piano performance that transcends genre, resulting in a unique blend of styles and backgrounds. It stirs the jazz and classical realms into one musical recipe. The two have played throughout Australia to great acclaim and are receiving rave reviews across Australia. Tedeschi and Hunt serve up an exciting mix of audience favourites, with music from Bach to Duke Ellington.

Register NOW for our popular Poco a Poco Class. Poco a Poco will run for 8 weeks, starting Thursday 6th February, 3.30pm-4.15pm. If you have any questions or have already signed up or provided us with an enrolment form please phone the office 6742 3998.