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Educating young musicians for careers: Exploring three Australian music training programs

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posted on 2024-10-31, 15:49 authored by Amanda Watson, David ForrestDavid Forrest
Young musicians in Australia have a range of opportunities to actively participate in a variety of programs that provide experiences for the career preparation as a music professional. These specialised training programs are designed to support and enhance career development. They usually occur in intensive blocks of time and are offered by a number of providers including youth music organisations, professional or semiprofessional ensembles, music institutions and individual professional musicians. The emphasis on the training provided can be equated with competency-based training (CBT) where the learning process is a specific approach to training that involves measurable outcomes associated with the particular description of an actual job. Although performance training for ensemble and orchestral playing dominate, career opportunities in composition, arts management and journalism are accommodated in specialised programs. Transferable employability skills such as communication and organisation are a major part of development and training programs associated with music careers. The three programs selected for analysis in this paper are the programs of the Australian Youth Orchestra Incorporated, the Sydney Conservatorium Access Centre, and Sydney Symphony Sinfonietta project.

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Start page

32

End page

38

Total pages

7

Outlet

Making sound waves: Equity, unity, diversity. ASME XVIII national conference

Editors

Elizabeth Mackinlay & David Forrest

Name of conference

Making sound waves: Equity, unity, diversity. ASME XVIII national conference

Publisher

Australian Society for Music Education

Place published

Melbourne, Australia

Start date

2011-07-02

End date

2011-07-05

Language

English

Copyright

© 2011 Australian Society for Music Education

Former Identifier

2006031747

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2012-05-03

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