Aeyons - World leading platform for online instrumental teaching

Aeyons

World leading platform for online instrumental teaching

A new music platform has brought work to hundreds of musicians globally who have suffered dramatic income losses due to COVID-19. The online platform, Aeyons, has connected worldclass musicians with students of all ages across 17 countries for hundreds of real-time private tutorials since its launch. It is the creation of musician and former Drummond resident Geoff Collinson. In 2006, Geoff saw a need and an opportunity to create an online learning hub for music education. It needed outstanding audio and picture quality and a collection of the world’s most dedicated and celebrated teachers. Fast forward to today and Aeyons, founded in 2019 is now leading the world in the digital technology, making it possible to have a music lesson with a teacher from the other side of the world and experiencing an almost synonymous-like quality as with being there in person. Collinson was on the verge of launching the online music teaching platform in China at the beginning of 2020 but said he had a “complete other opportunity to help musicians around the world when COVID struck”. “We decided to make a change to help right now,” he said. Throughout the pandemic, Collinson has seen dozens of talented musicians and friends lose everything as events and venues shut down overnight. “COVID has impacted the music sector in a devastating way,” he said. “There have been no gigs since March and sadly being out of work has become a common story. We know there are musicians out there who need something like this.” His business pivot has been exactly that for at least 170 musicians now connecting and sharing their talents across the globe, including 40 Australian professionals with room for more. Award-winning percussionist David Jones is one of those who came on board and described Aeyons as a “lifeline” during the Melbourne lockdown period. Aeyons, which stands for Another Eight Year Overnight Success is a platform that can be used on its own or in conjunction with booking and payment facilities. It allows musicians from anywhere in the world to connect with their ideal teacher - imagine being able to communicate directly with your hero, or simply cutting down your commute time by having a mix of online and in-person lessons with your current teacher. The one-on-one tutorials are on AEYONS’ own video conferencing platform and each tutor (more than 150 of them from 17 countries around the world) sets their own price. The tutors are from the London, Chicago, Los Angeles and Sydney symphonies, platinum-selling recording artists, conservatoriums and festivals. The exemplary quality has even attracted high profile businesses to use the platform as their online meeting tool, relishing in the ease of conversation and the increased connectedness experienced over other meeting platforms. “The response has been incredible. It just boomed! We have now partnered with global investors. The whole thing has kind of gone ballistic,” Collinson said.

Geoff Collinson, creator of a music platform, Aeyons to bring work to musicians around the world.

Aeyons is partnering with musicians from the world’s great orchestras such as Australian World Orchestra, LA PHIL, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Collinson himself has more than 30 years of professional industry experience including principal horn of Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, head of brass at the University of Melbourne and co-founder of the Melbourne International Festival of Brass. Aeyons has an exclusive partnership with the Australian Music Examinations Board including a Chinese distribution licence. The burgeoning Chinese classical music instrument education sector will be a key component. More recent connections have formed with the Be Earth Foundation: an organisation working closely with the UN and private sector to improve sustainability. The foundation will work with partners like Aeyons to replicate the Recycled Orchestra Project by transforming household waste into musical instruments for those with otherwise limited access who will also be linked to lessons. Collinson said the idea behind Aeyons was to make the highest level of music education accessible to everyone and inspire sharing musical talent. “Music has been my life and music education is incredibly important to me,” Collinson said. “Music is one of our greatest learning resources and can make so much difference to our other learning experience.” Says Gérard Patacca, who took over as CEO of the company in September 2020, “We built the platform with musicians in mind so both the visuals and audio are of a very high quality as needed for music lessons online.” Collinson and Patacca met as students at the Canberra School of Music, studying under the legendary Hector McDonald who’d just returned from Europe playing in the Berlin Philharmonic. “Hector embodied the ideals of teaching and mentoring. We learnt what it was like to learn from a true master. Hector inspired us on a path of lifelong learning.” With the capability of creating a bespoke hub for any business and their needs, what began as a tool created by musicians for musicians has fast become the one stop shop for online meeting needs. The platform also offers a feature called the Learning Hub that enables a fully password protected environment to operate all teaching or other activities incorporating the capacity to store multimedia resources with peace-of-mind security. https://aeyons.com/learning-hub If you are interested to learn more, please contact the founder, Geoff Collinson at gcollinson@aeyons.com or 0413806224 and if you are in Sydney, CEO Gerard Patacca at gpatacca@aeyons.com would love to be in contact. Story source: Geoff Collinson