2024 Teacher Professional Development Day
Event description
Join us for a fun day of reconnecting with friends and colleagues, acquiring new skills, and reigniting passion for inspiring the next generation of musicians.
In addition to the presentations below, there’ll be 20% OFF sheet music, goodie bags and your chance to win a personalised sound optimisation session with Thomas Zwieg that includes a free set of strings!
Bookings are essential as spots are limited. Please RSVP by 1 March. DOORS OPEN AT 9:00AM. PLEASE ARRIVE BY 9:15AM TO SET UP YOUR INSTRUMENTS FOR SESSION 1. CELLISTS, PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR ROCK STOPS :-)
Session 1: 9:30am | Bowstroke Boot Camp - With Caron Chan and Simone Koolhaas
Bring your instruments for this hands-on session that’ll help you whip your students’ bow strokes into shape! Violin and cello pedagogues Caron Chan and Simone Koolhaas will explore the fundamentals of bowing set-up, and playing with resonance, and will also demonstrate exercises to help your students master bowing techniques such as martelé, detaché, sautillé and spiccato.
MORNING TEA - 11:00-11:30am
Session 2: 11:30am | Optimising Your Sound - With Dr. Thomas Zwieg
Ever wondered what influences the response, volume, and timbre of your instrument, and how you can optimise this? In this session, Thomas Zweig, Vice President and Product Development Manager at Larsen Strings will be providing insight into how instruments, strings, bow, and bowing techniques interact with one another, and what can be done to influence and improve qualities such as response, articulation, volume, and tone.
LUNCH - 12:30-1:30pm
1pm - Sound optimisation session for lucky door prize winner.