Major Player Music School in Rockhampton, Queensland | Music school
Major Player Music School
Locality: Rockhampton, Queensland
Phone: +61 417 621 925
Address: 82 William St 4700 Rockhampton, QLD, Australia
Website: http://www.majorplayer.com.au
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25.01.2022 Book online at majorplayer.com.au for your free link to this live feed event. From 4-5 pm this coming Saturday.
24.01.2022 Term 3 Week 2 is in full swing! Face to face teaching is available for all students (other than Kinder Beat due to social distancing requirements). We will continue to offer remote lessons for any new or old students and this is becoming an extremely popular option in a number of cases.... Good luck to all of our students diligently preparing for both Practical and Theory Exams this Term.
24.01.2022 Celebration Day concerts series completed a very meaningful year for our students and families. Voice, Speech and Drama, Guitar, Drums and Piano were contained in each of the concerts. Here are our other two sets of performers with their awards.
23.01.2022 https://vimeo.com/406059318 HI everyone! Here is a message from James.
23.01.2022 Major Player is upgrading its performance pianos!! Our two existing Yamaha C7 Grand Pianos are now offered for sale to make way for new models. Both are Japanese built and have been owned by us for over 10 years and well maintained for exam and teaching purposes. The replacement cost is over $80k for each instrument. The Conservatory model (on the right) is offered at $18k plus GST. It’s partner on the left is $19k plus GST. ... Please ring us on 0417621925 if you are interested in this special offer. Regards to all, Steve and Berna.
22.01.2022 Nick Hooper has a message for everyone too! https://vimeo.com/406089301
21.01.2022 Congratulations to all 147 individual performers in the 4 concerts at yesterday’s Celebration Day 2020 event. Thankyou to all students, families and staff who contributed to the success of the day. Here is an example of what was experienced. More to follow!
21.01.2022 Our students will have completed all of their Music and Speech exams by tomorrow. Here we see Sienna with Miss Berna after her first exam last week. Preparing students professionally is paramount in them gaining maximum benefits from these opportunities. Thankyou to all families and teachers for their support to these processes.
20.01.2022 Music is able to unite everyone. Here are fierce competitors having lots of fun in music. It has the ability to draw us together!
19.01.2022 Exciting news! Nancy Weir Awards to be live-streamed on Saturday 18th April from 4-5pm. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR FREE TICKETS TO VIEW ON OUR WEBSITE BEFORE THE EVENT. A sign-on will be provided to you upon registration. Happy Easter everyone from us all at Major Player.
18.01.2022 We were so impressed with Miss Ellie and her speech students who have recorded this piece over the holidays. We now look forward to welcoming you all back after Australia Day.
17.01.2022 Welcome to week 10 of our final Term of 2020. As we are always open on ‘student free days’ of the State School Year, lessons will continue until the end of the week, meaning 5pm Saturday. After that, we will all enjoy a 6 week break, resuming after Australia Day on Wednesday 27th January. If families wish to arrange casual lessons to maintain learning from 4th January please contact Steve on 0417621925. Happy holidays to all. Steve and Miss Berna.
17.01.2022 ANZAC DAY - we are closed but... If you are performing at the front gate in the morning record your performance and then ring Steve who will give you a Major Player address to upload it to!ANZAC DAY - we are closed but... If you are performing at the front gate in the morning record your performance and then ring Steve who will give you a Major Player address to upload it to!
16.01.2022 Lessons start today! A reminder to all families that Major Player lessons always commence at the beginning of each Term and that we are also present on student free days. We are always closed on Public Holidays. Additionally, as Anzac Day is Sunday we will be open on Saturday but not the public Holiday Monday. ... Looking forward to seeing you all this week. Regards Berna and Steve.
14.01.2022 The short series 'Queen's Gambit' is currently excitingly showing on Netflix. This National Geographic feature is one that further underlines this story. We recommend it to all families. You will learn further about neuroplasticity and how willing dedicated effort to a difficult task will increase the capacity of the brain. Just like what we see in music students every day. Regards to all, Steve and Berna.
14.01.2022 The Celebration Day event will now be held at the Walter Reid auditorium due to Qld Govt changes this week. Text messages have been sent to families of entrants today with details. Everyone else is welcome to attend too! Tickets must be purchased and collected from Major Player (see Steve) before the day of the event so that details of attendees can be completed before handing in at the door on entry.
13.01.2022 Today's greeting is from Lily Morrison, reflecting on the implementation of on-line lessons in the last week of Term. https://vimeo.com/406089332
13.01.2022 2020 a year like no other! Finished in stye with our series of Celebration Day concerts.
13.01.2022 Following our Celebration Day Concert Series at the end of 2020 there will not be a Nancy Weir Awards Concert this year. Our highlighted photos are a reminder of what a diversity of performances we enjoyed on that day.
12.01.2022 NANCY WEIR AWARDS COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT! Due to the overwhelming response to the Live Streamed Event on Saturday we have decided to award 37 prizes (instead of just 5 in all) each of $25 to the following families: Bartsch, Bradshaw, Brown, Byrne, Carillo, Cavanagh, Clifton, Corbet, Crow, Faria, Foster, Goddard, Gunder, Harris, Holbeck, Jahnke, Jones (Isaac), Kalutara, Lawn, Lodewikus, Loughnan, Lovegrove, Morrison, McKenzie (Luke), Nguyen, Peters, Reif, Senior, Smith (Gene...vieve), Stewart, Tschirpig, Tweedy, Vea-Vea, Williams, Wiltshire, Wu, Xing Han. We will provide a credit of that $25 to the eldest member of the family within their Term Fee account to be forwarded over the next week. Thankyou for entering into the spirit of the afternoon last Saturday. You all helped to enhance the event. We hope you all are settling into your remote education and that it is not proving to stressful for everyone at home! Anyone who missed the event or would like to see it again may do so by visiting our website and using the Password NW49213772 within the tab of 'Nancy Weir Awards'. Regards Berna and Steve.
10.01.2022 New Group Junior Music class beginning Saturday 2pm with Miss Berna. The ideal keyboard start to music for 4-6 year olds. We have a couple of remaining places in this exciting new class. Many young people have been restricted in 2020 activities. This is an opportunity for them to begin a meaningful music education course. ... Give us a ring now on 0417621925. Regards to all, Steve and Berna.
10.01.2022 Congratulations! Every entered Piano, Music Theory, Strings and Speech student of Major Player has passed their AMEB exams for 2020 with most achieving Honours Grades and above. This is a magnitude achievement by students, families and teachers in a year with special challenges. We are immensely proud of everyone.
08.01.2022 Thankyou to all families who actively engaged with the live Nancy Weir Awards yesterday. We hope you all enjoyed it! If you happened to miss it then you are still able to view it by logging on to the website majorplayer.com.au, look for NW Awards and then use the Password NW49213772. Enjoy, or even re-enjoy the viewing.... There are some important messages at the end of the recording regarding our return to school tomorrow. Everyone should be progressively receiving their zoom meetings sign-ons for the week within 48 hours, with tomorrow and hopefully Tuesday by tonight. Regards to everyone, Steve and Berna.
08.01.2022 2020 Celebration Day at PILBEAM THEATRE Sunday 29th November. All Major Player students will be encouraged by their teachers to perform on stage at least once during this day. As there will not be a Yamaha Concert for Piano this year it is our chance to involve every student, not just Piano. All levels of students from our least experienced are strongly encouraged to be involved. Mature aged students are always a highlight at the Yamaha day and we look forward to seeing ...them involved too. Families will be able to book tickets at a very reduced price for the Pilbeam. Also, you will be able to indicate a general time preference for the day on an ‘Expressions of Interest’ form available from tomorrow. There will not be a limit on numbers of tickets for each family. We will run a series of performances during the day to allow this. We hope families and students will be motivated to take advantage of this significant opportunity for personal growth. Performing at The Pilbeam may be a once in lifetime chance for many. Further specifics will be provided as we plan for this exciting event.
08.01.2022 This is so inspirational & can display how music can enhance your life no matter what age. Worth viewing if you haven’t seen it.
08.01.2022 A review of our first week of on-line lessons in Week 10 of Term 1 from Ged. https://vimeo.com/406089276
07.01.2022 Please bring your facemarks this week! Lessons will be provided this week for all students at their normal times, but with the non-mandatory recommendation for facemarks where social distancing is more difficult, we would prefer teachers and students to observe mask wearing this week. Additionally could we please ask that parents and carers please drop students off and pick them up from directly outside the waiting room at their lesson time only without anyone congregatin...g inside. Fingers crossed that all families will then be able to enjoy a happy and fulfilling Holiday Break together.
07.01.2022 Zoom Meetings Bookings. Each student is now in Week 2 of Term on a recurring meeting basis. This means that your Meeting ID and Password will be the same throughout the Term. That is, you use your same details each week as advised in Week 1 of Term 2 (last week). If you have happened to delete last week's email then please do ask for us to send a further copy. Thankyou to everyone who has willingly transitioned to this method of engagement. We are all growing with this ...experience and becoming more and more familiar with what works best in this new environment! Remember to be early to the waiting room and be organised so that you get best value from your time. Regards to all, Steve and Berna.
06.01.2022 It is great to see all our families returning since Wednesday after a well earned break. Lessons have all restarted at your normal times and we will end the first week on Saturday afternoon.
06.01.2022 Upload your image here to enter the Nancy Weir Awards competition from the live feed today. Alfie is nearly ready!!
06.01.2022 Music has no boundaries!
06.01.2022 https://youtu.be/khOfSVULtsU Here is a bit of fun but still very musical! Thanks to Bec Kummerfeld. Alfie came running thinking his rubber chicken had been stolen!!... Happy Easter everybody.
05.01.2022 Another of our teachers is Esther Gale. Here is her reflection on the first week of zoom for students and families. https://vimeo.com/407464481
03.01.2022 Updated link to Berna's on-line instructional video. Happy Easter everyone! Stay safe.
