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A new vocal school has opened in East Belfast. The Vox Rox Vocal Academy offers singing lessons and voice training to students of all ages and abilities, and covers aspects of live performance including presentation, confidence and voice maintenance. The new school specialises in singing lessons for rock, pop and musical theatre, performance coaching and [...]

Directed by singer and presenter Fil Campbell, Summersong 2009 is an intensive 5-day course for aspiring singers (minimum age 14) into any style of music. The goals of this annual course, now in its 10th year, are:  to build confidence; improve performance; prepare for auditions/exams; record a demo CD; and prepare a press pack. Applications [...]

Ballymena Chamber Orchestra holds a course for string players of grade five standard and above from Tuesday- Friday, July 15-18, 2008. The course will be headed by Rebekah Durston (violin) and Scott Heron (cello). Places are limited – e-mail for more details. Orchestra founder Rebekah Durston is one of Ulster’s leading violin teachers: many of her students [...]

Yamaha Music School Ireland is presently enroling students for its summer scheme which runs July through August. Based in Holywood, YMSI teaches vocal lessons, music theory, and piano to both children and adults – and music appreciation classes of younger children (aged 4 to 5 years). YMSI also offers tuition in drums, guitar, banjo and [...]

Edel Close reports: Formed only this year, the Kodaly Society of Northern Ireland (KSONI) plans to host its inaugural Kodaly Summer Course this July. Set up by local music teacher and soprano, Anne McCambridge, the course aims to help students solve the mysteries of music. Zoltan Kodaly was a Hungarian composer and educator who developed [...]

Now Play It is a new kind of music tutorial website that employs the original artist (for example Duke Special, KT Tunstall, Paul McCartney) to teach you how to play their hit song using proven learning techniques. This on-line video service has been developed to help offer an on-demand and personal means of learning [...]

NIMIC are hosting a high-profile Music: It’s the Business event on Monday, December 3 that looks specifically at the business of music for film, TV and multimedia. The potential incomes for writers, composers and recording artists from the use of their work in film, television, advertisements and multimedia are substantial. These ‘secondary’ incomes from recorded [...]

How does pop music have the power to convey emotion, express the inexplicable and defy time? Listen to this conversational duet and find out: http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/020201/text/conversations.html

The HOTPRESS MIX 07 (Music Industry Xplained) is a course designed for those seeking careers in the music industry and in the music media. MIX 07 is a 12-week series of lectures (one-a-week) by top professional exponents from the Irish and international music industry and is aimed at those seeking careers in the music [...]