Stream Information (Updated 3 October)
Church Music Workshop
Leader Graeme Morton
If you have attended any of the past 53 annual RSCM Summer Schools in Australia, or if you are keen to come and see what all the fuss is about, join us in the church music workshop.
A stimulating week of plenary sessions, daily rehearsals, electives and discussions will see these participants singing in some of Australia’s best cathedrals and exploring and experiencing the wonderful world of church music.
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Vocal Ensemble Academy
Leader Tony Funk
This is the strand for specialist singers – those who wish to live the life of a professional choral musician if only for a week. Your days will be filled with rehearsals, vocal tutorials, masterclasses, and special voice electives. Performances will occur in St John’s Cathedral, and in regional centres.
As you would expect, entry is by audition. Also check out the remarkable sound of Tony Funk’s own ensemble in Canada (www.tonyfunk.ca). This will ensure that you want to join the Festival Vocal Academy. Details are on the RSCM Qld website (www.rscm.com.au).
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International Organ School
Leaders Rupert Jeffcoat, Michael Fulcher, Christopher Wrench
Have you ever wanted to further your organ study with an international tutor?
This is your opportunity to get up close
and personal with leading recitalists and liturgical organists.
Led by Rupert Jeffcoat, formerly Coventry Cathedral, now St John’s Brisbane, your days will be spent in regular organ lessons, master classes, and in personal practice
(for which a range of good instruments will be provided). Register quickly as places in this specialist program are limited.
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Developing a Singing Community
Leader Nicholas Bannon
This is another significant innovation in the Festival, and is geared to music teachers, school teachers, choral
directors and everyone who works within a community of amateur musicians inside or outside the church. Participants in this strand will be involved in the electives, and in some of the rehearsals offered in the Church Music Workshop, as an experience of sacred music practice,
and will further explore with Nicholas Bannon the processes and issues that underlie this practice.
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Composing for the Australian Church
Leader Christopher Willcock
Composers are not born – they are made. If you are a composer, or are interested in becoming one, then this program is for you, and Christopher Willcock is the perfect tutor. His music spans that suitable for the least skilled of congregations through to elaborate settings for professional ensembles. Whatever you want to write, Christopher will be able to assist.
Imagine a week of intensive composition – group sessions, individual writing time, and performance opportunities, stopping only to eat, drink, and on occasions sleep, and to check out some of the marvelous performances of the Festival that will inspire and enliven your own composing.
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Playing for God
Leader Michael Faragher
The traditional church music programme is often built around the organ and choirs or vocal ensembles. But what of instrumentalists - how does one set out to engage the plentitude of musical talent found in those with instrumental skills? Come to the Festival and explore how to make your church’s music engaging, inclusive, vibrant and exciting for such musicians, and for the whole church community. Father Michael Faragher, an ex-cathedral chorister, band leader and jazz sax player has much to offer you.
Church Music Summit
Leader Ralph Morton
Are you a professional church musician? Do you direct a cathedral program, or perform at an equivalent standard? This strand is a meeting of colleagues to share ideas of mutual interest. Church music can be an isolated experience – your nearest colleague may be hardly known to you. Mostly using the “round table” format, this is your opportunity to spend time with colleagues in formal and informal contexts.
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Youth Course
Leader Lynne Gackle
Florida conductor Lynne Gackle returns to Australia to lead the Festival Youth Course, which expects to attract 100 high school aged singers from across the country. This program offers participants a week of rehearsals, electives and social activities as exciting as any Summer Camp. Those who register for this course MUST be residential, living at home, or living in accommodation specifically approved by parents. This course concludes on Friday evening January 9th with a concert in St John’s Cathedral and the residential accommodation is available until Saturday morning.
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Highlights
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Presenter Biographies
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Schedule
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Electives
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Accommodation options
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Venues
This Festival is based at Somerville House (The Brisbane High School for Girls), in its new state of the art music facility. Several accommodation options are available allowing delegates at all budget levels the opportunity to attend. Somerville House overlooks the famous South Bank precinct, the river and the city of Brisbane itself.
Major celebrations have been arranged in St Andrew’s Uniting Church, St John’s Anglican Cathedral (whose unique neo-gothic interior has recently been completed) and St Stephen’s Catholic Cathedral.
Brisbane is Australia’s most appealing sub-tropical city, and within an hour of some of the country’s best beach destinations. Book to attend the Festival and plan to stay on to enjoy the other delights of the tourist state, from the wineries of the rural south-east to the rainforest and reef of the north.
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Registration information - procedures and forms
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