FOBISIA MUSIC TEACHERS' CONFERENCE 2023 Rob Hall Director of Music, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
This year’s FOBISIA Music Teachers’ Conference, hosted by Tanglin Trust School, took place in early October, with more than 100 delegates from over 60 schools. There was a stellar line-up of presenters from across the globe with interactive keynote ‘speeches’ by composer, presenter, and animateur Rachel Leach, and Oliver Tarney, Head of Academic Music and Composition at Winchester College in the UK. The focus of the Conference was ‘thinking creatively’ and the broad range of interactive break-out sessions covered an array of pertinent topics including curriculum-based discussions, use of music technology, songwriting, developing a jazz culture, and the use of AI in music education. Alongside these were further sessions based around percussion in the classroom and sessions focused on music from across Asia with Gamelan, Taiko Drumming, and Chinese Traditional Instruments featuring. During the three-day conference there were also two short recitals by students from Tanglin Trust School, and the Conference Dinner and Jazz Evening, with musical entertainment by the Australian jazz ensemble Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys.
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