Music tutor wins Pacific Songwriting Competition

Whitireia music tutor wins Pacific Songwriting Competition

Dan Adams, Music Programme Manager at Whitireia, has won the Open category in the 2008 Pacific Songwriting Competition.  The results were announced 15th March, 2009.

Adams says “entering the competition, I looked down the list of categories, and was reminded why I don’t like categories.  So I entered the Open section, which seemed to be where anything goes and gloves are off.”

A Pacific Song Competition Judge said “Dan’s song won because ‘There will be no break in this traffic’ led me directly to his sadness. Dan’s song creates a space for the listener to sit, listen and reflect with him. To me, this creation of space was magical because it was such a contrast to his title ‘There will be no break in this traffic’. I was looking for exactly this ‘x factor’ in this years winners and I wish Dan all the very best for his songwriting in the future.”

Adams began lecturing Composition and Songwriting at Whitireia 18 months ago, and took over as Programme Manager of the Bachelor of Applied Arts (Music) 12 months ago.

Adams says “If there’s anything that I try hardest to do in the minds of my composition students at Whitireia, it is to expand their notion of what music is and can be, and what they can do.  I wear a t-shirt which says ‘I listen to bands that don’t exist yet’.  It reminds me that we’re all, teacher and students alike, discovering what is possible.”

Whitireia offers a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Music), Certificate in Rock, Jazz and Commercial Music, Certificate in DJ Music, Certificate in Foundation Music and Certificate in Live Sound Event Production

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