CANCELLED due to lack of enrolments as of 27/5/25. Please contact us if you would like to pursue improvisation on the Mornington Peninsula.

Music Improvisation Workshops

by the

Mornington Improvisers Collective

Are you a skilled and passionate muso? Open to creating your own music with others? Not sure if you can improvise - but would like to?

A series of eight workshops (each of 2 hours duration)

$160 discount package for all 8 workshops (or $25 per individual workshop)

strings, wind, percussion, keyboard, voice... we play acoustically

You've honed your performance skills over years with one-on-one tutelage and buckets of practice...now it’s time to channel your skills to make spontaneous music!

Facilitated by Poul Grage, a professional performer and musical improvisor. These workshops aim to stretch you into new territory, enabling you to take the next step to bring all your performance skills to the art of improvisation and the creation of new music. Anne Norman will be a guest facilitator in this series.

MAXIMUM of 20 participants - from 16 years old upwards!

A wonderful opportunity! This third season of MIC impro workshops builds on a 2024 program generously subsidised by a Performing Arts Development Grant from the Mornington Peninsula Shire.

FACILITATORS:

Poul Grage – drums/percussion; improvisor; composer and educator. BArts, BMus Perf Improv (Hons) VCA, DipEd, studied improvisation on drumkit and afro-latin percussion, exploring many other percussion traditions and techniques, all built on a beginning in classical percussion. Poul holds 2024 Victorian Institute of Teaching registration.

Anne Norman - shakuhachi performer; composer; improviser. BMus (classically trained on silver flute), DipEd music, MA Ethnomusicology, post-graduate performance studies on shakuhachi at Tokyo Univ of Fine Arts & Music. Anne holds a current Working with Children check.

Mornington Improvisers Collective

Poul Grage, Anne Norman and Ria Soemardjo

MiC work on Bunurrong lands, we pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present who have sung and danced on Bunurong Country for tens of thousands of years and have never ceded sovereignty. We also pay our respects to the lands, waters, flora and fauna of this beautiful Country.