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Musicians Mentoring In Schools Programme Returns
For immediate release: Tuesday 4 March, 2014
Musicians Mentoring In Schools Programme Returns
The New Zealand Music
Commission's Musicians Mentoring in Schools
Programme and Bands Mentoring in
Schools Programme bring the magic and
inspiration of face-to-face interaction
with
professional musicians to students and teachers all over New
Zealand. Throughout this initiative, our Mentors share
their music skills; recording, composition and
performance experience; and their knowledge of the music
industry.
The Music Commission has partnered with the
Ministry of Education to provide a free music-mentoring
scheme in schools to assist with the development of
programmes for the arts in NZ.
This has been run
successfully for the past twelve years and has just been
renewed for a further three years by the Ministry of
Education.
The Musicians Mentoring in Schools
Programme aims to support teachers in assessing
Achievement Standards in Music for NCEA through the work the
students produce through
participation in the
Mentorship. This affords students –even those not
enrolled in a music class – to earn NCEA credits for
composition, performance, and other music standards.
The
Mentors - professional musicians and performers - receive
training and support from the Music Commission to act as
Mentors and conduct workshops, seminars
and performances
in participating schools. The Music Commission is able to
fund up to five sessions at each participating
school.
New Zealand Arts and Culture Minister
Christopher Finlayson QC said, "One of the most
effective means we have to develop strong musical talent in
New Zealand and foster a love
of the arts is with
Education. It is therefore gratifying to see the Ministry
of Education renew the Musicians Mentoring in
Schools Programme and the
Bands
Mentoring in Schools Programme run by the NZ
Music Commission for another three years.”
The Music
Commission is also pleased to announce the arrival of their
new Education Manager Michelle Ladwig
Williams, who takes over from well regarded and
long serving
manager Stephanie Lees who left the Music
Commission at the end of 2013 after twelve years in the
position.
Michelle is currently a candidate for Doctor of
Philosophy in Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland.
She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in K-12 Choral-General
Music from
Arizona State University, USA and a Master of
Arts in Music Education with a concentration in
Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai'i at
Manoa.
”Michelle is a great addition to the Music Commission team and we are very pleased to have her here” said Cath Andersen, Chief Executive for the NZ Music Commission.
The first school mentoring session for 2014 kicks off with hip-hop MC Tyna Keelan visiting Gisborne Boys High School on March 24-25.
ENDS
Issued by the NZ Music
Commission. The NZ Music Commission is a non-profit
organisation that has been set up to promote music from New
Zealand and grow NZ owned music businesses.
Find us online at: www.nzmusic.org.nz | www.nzmusic.org.nz/education/
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