NOMINATION: Excellence in Music Education
For pedagogical, creative or professional development activities that champion Australian repertoire, including specific projects, recordings or recording projects, or events undertaken by an individual or organisation.
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Nominee
Speak Percussion
Nominated Project/Activity
Bespoke Artists Program
Nominator Statement
The Bespoke Artists Program supports young music makers, independent, early-mid career artists and arts workers with a focus on career sustainability. Across this two year program, participants receive professional development in three key areas; business, career and artistic leadership. The Bespoke program offers a group of emerging / mid-career music, sound and performance artists the opportunity to develop skills for ongoing self-sustaining artistic inquiry.
Meeting regularly, the Bespoke program guided the mentee artists through the practicalities of developing and maintaining their arts practice, the tangible skills in arts administration, mentored in developing new work ( given the chance to workshop, test, experiment and fail) and to build genuine community and bonds with and amongst each other to sustain their careers into the future. The most remarkable thing about this education initiative is the long term, and by name, 'bespoke' nature of mentorship. Speak takes an slow, evidence based and best practice approach to their education program - choosing to work over a long amount of time with a large number of mentees in order to create meaningful exchanges and learning opportunities.
The outcome of this was 'Axon' - a remarkable concert of 11 new experimental art music works.
Nominee
Speak Percussion
Nominated Project/Activity
Bespoke Artists Program
Meeting regularly, the Bespoke program guided the mentee artists through the practicalities of developing and maintaining their arts practice, the tangible skills in arts administration, mentored in developing new work ( given the chance to workshop, test, experiment and fail) and to build genuine community and bonds with and amongst each other to sustain their careers into the future. The most remarkable thing about this education initiative is the long term, and by name, 'bespoke' nature of mentorship. Speak takes an slow, evidence based and best practice approach to their education program - choosing to work over a long amount of time with a large number of mentees in order to create meaningful exchanges and learning opportunities.
The outcome of this was 'Axon' - a remarkable concert of 11 new experimental art music works.