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Chamber Music in Schools August Report

The Chamber Music in Schools piano trio visited three local outer regional schools on Friday 30 August. Deidre Rickards, Joanna Fairs-Wu and Sofia Debus delighted young students from St Joseph’s in Uralla, St Patrick’s in […]

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Working With Backtrack

NECOM has been exploring avenues for offering programs to Backtrack from 2019, with Music Therapist Fumie Takahashi demonstrating the versatility of instruments like guitar, ukulele, percussion, steel drums and (of course) the voice. Francesca from […]

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2018 Chamber Music in Schools Report

This year, we have played Chamber Music to 2,300 students in the following schools in the North Western region of NSW: Ashford Central, Bonshaw, St Marys Guyra, St Marys Armidale, Black Mountain, Uralla Central, St […]

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Chamber Music in Schools Update

Flute & Piano Trios have been actively presenting Chamber works in many Primary schools this year. At this stage, we have presented to students in Ashford, Bonshaw, St Marys of the Angels-Guyra, Black Mountain, Uralla […]

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Chamber Music in Schools July Update

Lots of children in North West regional schools have been exposed to the repertoire from the highly successful “Chamber Music in Schools” programme which is administered through NECOM. The image in this newsletter shows Flautist […]

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2017 Chamber Music in Schools Program Report

by Deidre Rickards OAM I designed and wrote this project so that students attending country schools could build a connection with the New England Conservatorium of Music by listening to Trios who would play in […]