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NECOM Christmas Concerts
NECOM’s choirs and ensembles gave their only concerts this year to celebrate a very welcome return to singing and playing and to farewell a year like no other. After this year of covid restrictions our […]
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NECOM Snapshot in Term 3
Term 3 of 2020 was incredibly busy and productive due to the determination, commitment and creative thinking by NECOM’s amazing community of staff, teachers, students and schools. As a registered COVID safe organisation NECOM adapted […]
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NECOM Online in Mungindi
Another first for NECOM! Starting in Term 3, NECOM and St Joseph’s Primary School in Mungindi joined together to deliver online music lessons into the classroom via zoom. The program was such a popular success […]
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New Contemporary Voice Lessons Start In Term 4
Welcome to Jessica Suann who will join NECOM as its first contemporary voice teacher starting in Term 4. Jessica studied voice under Dr Anke Hoeppner-Ryan as her major at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and […]
Concerts
MISSING LIVE MUSIC? SO ARE WE!
Restrictions around public gatherings and music performance have seen the cancellation of thousands of public concerts and many music education activities across NSW. The outcome is that countless performing arts companies may collapse and thousands […]
Concerts
NECOM’S ADDITIONAL COVID-19 SUPPORT
Following on from our drought support in October 2019, the need for additional financial support due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on music students and families is immense. NECOM believes that the positive benefit […]
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Music 2 Sight Singing Workshops
Do your students dread the HSC sight singing test and want to improve their skills? Help them crack the code of sight singing and develop the confidence to pull off a successful exam by booking […]
Ensembles and Choirs
Choirs & Ensembles Return in Term 3
Yes! NECOM programs will recommence in Term 3 after the long recess due to COVID-19. Rehearsals will commence face-to-face or in the live-via-zoom format during the term under the guidelines of the NSW Dept of […]
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Armidale’s 1st Composition Eisteddfod
Armidale Eisteddfod’s only section to go ahead this year was the Composition Eisteddfod due to its conversion to a Zoom on-line presentation facilitated by NECOM Program Manager Corinne Arter and AMTA (Armidale Music Teachers Association). […]
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Student Spotlight – Rose Light
Each week the keen and talented 15 yr old violinist Rose Light, travels a 5-hour round trip from Coffs Harbour to Armidale for lessons with NECOM’s Head of Strings Joanna Fairs-Wu. Rose, who last year […]