Instrumental Studies Tuition
CGGS Students Years 1-12
Instrumental Studies Tuition
CGGS Students Years 1-12
Individual Lessons
The Instrumental Studies Program comprises individual lessons held weekly and conducted by visiting specialist instrumental tutors. The Music Academy Administrator and Head of Junior School Music arrange instrumental lessons and allocate teaching studios. The specific scheduling of lessons is made between the Instrumental Studies Tutors, the student and their parents/caregivers. Instrumental Studies lesson operate on a rotating timetable so that students miss a different academic class lesson each week. There is an age restriction on some instruments due to the size and physical requirements needed to play them.
Weekly half hour lessons can be taken on the following instruments and are delivered by the following instrumental tutors:
Piano
(Available to students in Years 1-12)
Inessa Babajanov, Charlene Brighenti, Phillipa Candy, Lilian Hathorn, Suzanne Hewitt, Helen Lamour, Kylie Loveland, Elena Nikulina, Giselle Roberts, Elizabeth Silvey, Christine Thompson, Kerry Watson
Violin and Viola
(Available to students in Years 1-12)
Elizabeth Edward, Rowan Harvey-Martin, Olga Haydon, Eliana Piddington, Rebecca Smith, Tim Wickham
Cello
(Available to students in Years 1-12)
Voice
(Available to students in Years 2-12)
Flute/Fife
(Available to students in Years 2-12)
Guitar
(Available to students in Years 2-12)
Percussion/Drum Kit
(Available to students in Years 3-12)
Double Bass/Bass Guitar
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Oboe
(Available to students in Years 5-12)
Clarinet
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Bassoon
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Saxophone
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
French Horn
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Trombone and Euphonium
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Trumpet
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Tuba
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Organ
(Available to students in Years 4-12)
Harp
(Available to students in Years 5-12)
Instrumental Studies Tutors
All tutors who provide instrumental studies lessons at Canberra Girls Grammar School are professional musicians and are not employed by the School. Parents/caregivers are advised that the Music Department acts only as an intermediary, and that there is a legal obligation associated with any ‘Tuition Contract’ they enter into with their son/daughter’s tutor.
Enrol Now for 2018
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