The Beat Starts Here is a fee-paying course specially designed for school teachers and community conductors already working with school orchestras, choirs and community ensembles. Delivered by Australian conductors, the development of technical skills is the main focus of this course along with offering podium time with professional ensembles. Due to the number of applicants there is a selection process for the course. Our aim is for the course to be an essential part of supporting the wider musical community.
In 2012 The Beat Starts Here takes place in Sydney from 9 – 13 July. Symphony Services International is delighted to welcome back Graham Abbott as Course Director. Tailored to suit you, this course will enhance and develop your conducting skills. You’ll conduct professional pianists and instrumentalists while receiving expert instruction.
Course Director: Graham Abbott
Sydney-born Graham Abbott has been Conductor-in-Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music Adelaide, Musical Director of Adelaide Chorus (now Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus), Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director of Melbourne Chorale, and for the first three months of 1997 was the acting Chorus Master of the Chorus of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Since then he has been a frequent guest conductor with all of the major Australian orchestras and opera companies, leading choral societies and numerous new and early music ensembles. Graham is also a respected teacher and speaker on music and has been producer and presenter of Keys To Music on ABC Classic FM since 2003.
2012 engagements include conducting Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s For the Love of Scotland, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Unwrap the Music series, State Opera of South Australia’s production of Fidelio, and concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia and Canberra Choral Society.
The Beat Starts Here
The Beat Starts Here is a fee-paying course specially designed for school teachers and community conductors already working with school orchestras, choirs and community ensembles. Delivered by Australian conductors, the development of technical skills is the main focus of this course along with offering podium time with professional ensembles. Due to the number of applicants there is a selection process for the course. Our aim is for the course to be an essential part of supporting the wider musical community.
In 2012 The Beat Starts Here takes place in Sydney from 9 – 13 July. Symphony Services International is delighted to welcome back Graham Abbott as Course Director. Tailored to suit you, this course will enhance and develop your conducting skills. You’ll conduct professional pianists and instrumentalists while receiving expert instruction.
Sydney-born Graham Abbott has been Conductor-in-Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music Adelaide, Musical Director of Adelaide Chorus (now Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus), Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director of Melbourne Chorale, and for the first three months of 1997 was the acting Chorus Master of the Chorus of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Since then he has been a frequent guest conductor with all of the major Australian orchestras and opera companies, leading choral societies and numerous new and early music ensembles. Graham is also a respected teacher and speaker on music and has been producer and presenter of Keys To Music on ABC Classic FM since 2003.
2012 engagements include conducting Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s For the Love of Scotland, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s Unwrap the Music series, State Opera of South Australia’s production of Fidelio, and concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia and Canberra Choral Society.
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Applications close at 5pm on Friday 11 May 2012