Opportunities for Students and Alumni

Following on from the success of last year's exclusive Australian appearance, Jazzmeia Horn returns to Adelaide this October to captivate jazz lovers and mentor the next generation of South Australian musicians.

The three-time Grammy nominee will headline concerts at UKARIA and Adelaide Town Hall. In an Australian exclusive, Horn will collaborate with local hip-hop group DEM MOB – students from the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) – and our state's rising jazz musicians from the Elder Conservatorium, to write, record, and produce a new music track and video. During her time in Adelaide, Horn will mentor, educate and perform with the state's top jazz musicians at Helpmann Academy's annual A Night of Jazz event and awards ceremony at Adelaide Town Hall.

The Helpmann Academy is looking for two solo musicians or groups and one pianist to showcase their work at the annual A Night of Jazz with Jazzmeia Horn event on Thursday 31 October at the Adelaide Town Hall! Presented in partnership with the City of Adelaide and Adelaide City of Music, this paid opportunity has been created especially for emerging jazz musicians. These satellite music performances sit in parallel to the concert event, entertaining guests upon arrival and during the interval.

Artist Payment:

1 group of musicians: $1,000
1 solo musician: $500

Applications close on Sunday 22 September

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The Illuminate Adelaide Graduate Pathway Program is a professional development opportunity offered to recent graduates, supporting their transition from student to a career as a practicing artist. Made possible with thanks to the generous support from the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, recent South Australian based graduates (within five years of graduation) are invited to submit a creative proposal for a new commission to form part of the Illuminate Adelaide program in 2025. The Co-Founders and Creative Directors of Illuminate Adelaide will select up to three proposals for further pitch development, leading to a creative presentation. Selected recipients will be matched with mentors to support their practice and extend their ambition. In this way, the selected artists enhance their skills, but also grow their professional networks.

The Illuminate Adelaide Graduate Pathway Program offers recent graduates a fully-funded career and project development opportunity including possible presentation of their work within the highly visible Illuminate Adelaide 2025 event.

Applications close Sunday 22 September.

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The Washdog / Illuminate Adelaide Studio Residency offers a 12-month rent-free shared studio / office space for a South Australian artist at the Washdog artist studio in Kent Town. This opportunity is intended for artists who have a demonstrated commitment to their practice and are looking to extend their work and experiment with digital and new media art-making tools and processes.

As an open-plan shared space of artist studios across a range of media, Washdog is a generous and collaborative environment. This opportunity is open to eligible emerging or mid-career artists who may or may not already be making work with computer-based processes. This residency is intended for artists looking to learn new digital skills to expand on an already existing practice and ideas in a supportive space geared towards exchange of skills and knowledge.

The recipient of this residency has the freedom to direct their desired outcome of the opportunity and can expand on this in the application form. The creation of a new work is not a required outcome, however, Illuminate Adelaide will consider work developed and produced during this residency to be included in the 2025 or 2026 City Lights program.

Applications close Sunday 22 September

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Join leading international conductor and pedagogue Alice Farnham as she teaches the conducting students of the Elder Conservatorium of Music in this unique, open masterclass. This is a rare opportunity to see a conducting teacher of this calibre in action, working with high-level young conductors who are drawn from around the country.

This masterclass will be a great learning opportunity for conductors working with school and community groups, and eligible final-year students and graduates interested in learning more about the art and craft of conducting. A short Q&A session with Alice will follow the masterclass. This masterclass is free for final-year students and graduates (up to five years from final year of study). Places for this exclusive masterclass are strictly limited – bookings essential.

Presented in partnership with Helpmann Academy.

Wednesday 2 October 4.00–5.30pm
Hartley Concert Room

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Following on from the success of the inaugural Elise Ross Regional Award, the Helpmann Academy is thrilled to offer this opportunity for 2025.

'I am all too familiar with the obstacles young regional people face when trying to pursue their passion. There just isn't the same access to support or professional development as is available to creatives based in, or around major cities. We want to try and help change this and support emerging regional creatives to chase successful careers in the Arts'
– Elise Ross

In 2025 this award assists emerging visual and performing artists based in regional South Australia, to overcome barriers presented by distance and population size, with creative and professional development opportunities.

The award may also be used by emerging creatives living and working in Adelaide and surrounds, who plan to perform, exhibit, tour or study in regional South Australia. Projects should foster activity, build connections between emerging creatives or create audiences in regional South Australia. You must demonstrate a genuine connection to the region you plan to take your creative project to or undertake your professional development in.

You can pursue customised professional development programs, develop new creative projects, or do a combination of both. The self-directed programs may encompass a range of activities, such as engaging in residencies, receiving specialised training, participation in long-term workshops, or securing internships with recognised institutions or professional practitioners. Residencies, internships and/or training can be based interstate or internationally. You are encouraged to think big and go for it!

Brendan Godfrey is the inaugural recipient of this unique award. Brendan is a writer and director living and working in Port Augusta West. He completed a Bachelor of Media Arts (Film and Television) at the University of South Australia. He currently works producing television commercials for regional broadcast. The award assisted Brendan to attend the AFTRS Directing Intensive in Sydney, The Director's Role Mercury Launch Lab, and Marketing & Festivals Mercury Launch Lab.

'The Elise Ross Regional Award was a great way for me to really elevate my practice as a director. It helped me develop new skills, techniques and gain invaluable insight into what it takes to be a working and successful director. The award allowed me to access opportunities as a regional artist that otherwise might have been out of my reach and helped me connect to both the Adelaide and wider Australian filmmaking community.'
– Brendan Godfrey, 2024 Recipient

This award aims to fund meaningful opportunities, that are not currently available in your town or regional hub, and for emerging artists wishing to engage with regional South Australia.

Whatever direction you take, the opportunity should have a meaningful and vital impact on the development of your artistic practice and/or the community you're engaging with, while empowering you to profess your career.

Key Dates

Applications open Monday 19 August 2024
Applications close Tuesday 8 October at 11.59pm
For activity occurring between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025

For more information
Contact Helpmann Academy (08) 7089 0720 / info@helpmannacademy.com.au

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We are thrilled to announce the MSA 3-Minute Thesis (3MT Competition 2024). The competition will be held in conjunction with the MSA's 47th National Conference, to be held online this year from Thursday 28–Saturday 30 November 2024. All postgraduate and Honours students working on any area of music research are welcome to submit 3MT entries! There will be prizes available, sponsored by the MSA.

Although the traditional 3MT competition is exclusive to postgraduates, the MSA is pleased to introduce a special Honours category designed to encourage and spotlight the next generation of budding musicologists.

Registration Deadline: Friday 31 August 2024
Title and full name to be submitted via email to Rabiya Plush-Noad (rabiya.plush-noad@research.uwa.edu.au).


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MSA/SA members and other music scholars in the community are invited to present their work at the MSA/SA Chapter's Research Day, which will be held from 10.00am on Saturday 16 November in the Madley Rehearsal Studio.

20-minute presentations on any music research-related topic are invited. To present your work please provide an abstract of no more than 250 words to Gillian Dooley (gillian.dooley@flinders.edu.au) by Monday 4 November.

If you are a postgraduate student at any SA institution, you may also elect to be considered for the 2024 Naomi Cumming Prize. If you are a postgraduate student at the Elder Conservatorium, you may also elect to be considered for the 2024 Elder Conservatorium Prize for Excellence in Postgraduate Research.
 

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Transnational and Transcultural Exchange

A Special Issue of Journal of Musicological Research

Abstract Deadline: 1 October 2024

Edited by Rachel Orzech, John Gabriel, and Paul Watt

Transnational and transcultural exchange have long attracted scholarly investigation, but how to frame and analyse such contact has proved an ongoing challenge. Recently, the idea of 'global music history' has attracted music scholars as a new framework to explore the complex issues surrounding cultural contact, exchange, and entanglement from a decentred, non-hierarchical perspective, but it has also attracted criticism for reviving the problematic legacy of comparative musicology and appropriating approaches long used outside the Anglosphere.

This special-issue journal welcomes proposals of previously unpublished material that ask what research on Australian music and musicians can contribute to these discussions. For instance:

• How do Australia's histories of European settlement, racial nationalism, restrictive immigration, forced labour, and multiculturalism expand existing narratives of music, race, migration, and diaspora in other settler-colonial societies, especially the United States and Canada?
   
• How does music's role in relations between Australia's First Peoples and their Southeast Asian and Pacific neighbours contribute to explorations of global networks not centred on or driven by the West?
   
• How has the growth and development of musical life in Australia been fostered or impeded by its status as a British colony and/or a belief in British/European cultural authority, particularly in relation to notions of insularity, progress and parochialism?
   
• What can Australia's position as a British colony that itself engaged in colonialism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific tell us about music and colonialism?
   
• How does Australia's some-time self-image as an Anglo-Western society located in geographic networks of Southeast Asia and the Indian and South Pacific Oceans disrupt narratives of Western and non-Western cultural contact that centre the West on Europe and North America? How does it disrupt the very concept of 'Western music'?
   
• What styles, idioms, or genres of music have arisen from transnational and transcultural exchange?

New scholarship that explores new and emerging concepts and frames of thinking relating to Indigenous music, female participation, popular music, minority groups, and interdisciplinary research are especially welcomed.

Abstracts of 350 words, due by 1 October 2024, should be emailed to

Paul Watt, paul.watt@adelaide.edu.au

Or

Rachel Orzech, orzechr@unimelb.edu.au