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COTTAGE SCHOOL of MUSIC - Senior |
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COTTAGE CHILDREN'S CHOIR |
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Cottage Children's Choir offers the highest level of choral training for children aged 5-16 years. Cottage Children's Choir is under the direction of Micheál McCarthy. Cottage's Choral Programme provides training for people of all ages interested in developing Performance, Communication and Musicianship skills, as well as performance-related skills such as stage presence and confidence. Cottage Children's Choir maintains strong community links through its ongoing association with MosArts. Cottage’s Choral Program is closely linked to Cottage School of Music's Musicianship Programme. This exceptional program offers highly specialised classes to pre-school children, primary school children, high school students, parents and music teachers. The music school, which was established in Perth in 1998, is regarded by many professional musicians as having one of the finest programmes in Australia. |
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The Choral Programme offers experience in high-quality choral performance for talented musicians from as young as 5 years of age. Various levels of choir are offered through the programme, catering for a wide range of ages and interests. All of the choirs share a common purpose in their pursuit of artistic quality. The Cottage Holiday Music Programme also provides children with the opportuniy of experiencing our programme during the school holiday period. |
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Within our choral program we encourage independent thinking and individual creativity. Members are encouraged to be actively involved in all aspects of the presentation of the choir - instrumentalists are encouraged to play with the choir and to accompany the choir occasionally in concerts. |
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Benefits of a high-quality choral programme The voice is the instrument that is accessible to all children. Numerous studies have shown that children who study music through a highly structured programme such as ours develop creative skills that benefit them in a range of subject areas including mathematics, sciences and languages, as well as skill areas such as interpersonal, extra-personal, kinaesthetic and logical skills. Over the longer term, music becomes a second language for these students; once acquired, this language remains with them, central to their being, hence our motto that 'Music is for Life'. |
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See the children perform in Benjamin Britten's Opera 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' |
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"We put up the fancy spires first. When we saw that the whole edifice was shaky, we set to building the walls. We have still to make a cellar. This has been the situation, particularly in our musical culture. If in 1875 instead of establishing the Academy of Music, we had laid the foundations for the teaching of singing in schools, today's musical culture would be greater and more general." (Zoltán Kodály, Hungary, 1941/1957) |
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