Thank you for your interest in Musical Futures.

This workshop has been postponed due to COVID-19 and the uncertainities surrounding this global event
We plan to re-schedule these workshops and hold them during Term 2 , 2021 (May - dates to be confirmed). 

If you have already booked onto these workshops, we will be in contact  and will provide details  once the new dates confirmed.  We will also re-open registration once the new dates are confirmed.
​
We hope to resume a full workshop program from Term 2, 2021

​Special one off workshops to introduce new Musical Futures approaches, materials and resources designed to develop learner autonomy, enjoyment and creativity. 

Explore new Musical Futures materials, resources and approaches designed to develop greater learner autonomy, enjoyment and creativity.  Based on the work of Professor Lucy Green and from her book Hear, Listen, Play – How to Free Your Students Aural, Improvisation and Performance Skills
The workshop and supporting classroom resources explores:
  • It's the way we learn - how students (and teachers) identify notes and chords, how we learn and play by ear using chords  and how our musical brain responds?  as the title suggests start by hearing,  then through listen and to playing, making and creating
  • Composing and improvising - warm ups and games to establish a whole class ethos for music making and creative risk taking 
  • Create whole class workshop music making  from scratch, involving improvisation across a range of musical styles
  • Use simple online resources that allow students to collaborate, record, share and publish their work
  • Includes ALL new classroom resources that provide your students with the experiences that need to allow them to play by ear identifying notes, melodies, chords and progressions
  • Lunch and refreshments are included

Dates and Locations

SYDNEY (PUNCHBOWL) - NOW MAY 2021 (Date TBC)
BRISBANE ( BALD HILLS) - NOW MAY 2021 (Date TBC)
ADELAIDE (GLENELG) - NOW MAY 2021 (Date TBC)
PERTH (PERTH CBD) - NOW MAY 2021 (Date TBC)
MELBOURNE (CBD) - NOW MAY 2021 (Date TBC)

About Hear|Listen|Play|Create

​Hear, Listen, Play! is a book written by Lucy Green for all music teachers who are curious about the worlds of ear-playing, informal learning, improvisation, and vernacular music. Based on research that built on her previous work into how popular musicians learn in the informal realm, Lucy applies many aspects of their learning practices to three main areas within music education. It first tackles one-to-one specialist instrumental lessons before turning to ensemble work such as band and orchestra and finally to the generalist or specialist classroom.

This book is not a prescription for one particular way of teaching or learning, and it does not aim to critique, replace or change the excellent practices that are already on-going in the diverse world of music education and pedagogy. Rather, it offers something which is likely to be new to many teachers, and which they can add in to the mix.
In her book, Lucy examines how students in different contexts learn to play by ear. By replicating the original task used with students, our HLP workshop helps teachers to understand how they play by ear, raises awareness of other ways of learning music aurally and considers strategies to support students to engage with this method of musical learning which is central to the Musical Futures Informal Learning approach. ​

Workshop leaders

Anna Gower (UK/Thailand ) Head of Training and Development, Musical Futures International
Ken Owen – Director of Musical Futures Australia and Musical Futures International

NSW/ACT accreditation

Information for NSW and ACT teachers:
NESA and TQI Information: Completing a Musical Futures workshop will contribute 6.5 hours of QTC registered PD addressing 1.1.2, 1.1.2, 1.5.2, 2.6.2, 3.3.2, 3.5.2, 1.2.4, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 4.2.3, 4.2.5 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers toward maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Fees

$255.00 per teacher (inc GST) includes lunch, refreshments and a suite of take home resources.  Second and subsequent teachers from the same school $130 per teacher inc GST.
​Registration is essential