CoMA Festival Summer School

The CoMA Contemporary Music Festival Summer School opens its doors for the last time from 20-26 July 2008 at Doncaster College's High Melton Campus. It offers a chance for everyone, from amateur musicians to students, teachers and professionals, to deepen their understanding of everything new in music today.

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Yamaha Explores New Dimensions with Acoustic Triangle

Yamaha Music UK has teamed up with pioneering jazz outfit, Acoustic Triangle, for a ground breaking national tour of some of England's most inspiring spaces, with joint plans for future education projects. The '3 Dimensions' tour takes new works, composed specifically for cathedrals and abbeys, across the country.

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Yamaha Presents Quality & Breadth At LIMS Education Day

Yamaha's core aim of broadening access to music across a wide range of musical activites was strongly in evidence at Education Day, 13th June, at the London International Music Show in London's Docklands, with educators and pupils enjoying Yamaha sessions spanning rock, classical and jazz.

Fife Summer Jazz Course Tunes Up Before The Event

The acclaimed Fife Summer Jazz Course opens its doors again in St Andrews from 7-11 July 2008. It comprises a series sessions where you will have the opportunity to work with some of the best jazz tutors in the country with a view to improving and developing standards of playing, public performance and improvisation.

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Teachers: Win a Pocketrak 2G mp3 Recorder at Doncaster College's July Conference

Doncaster College, which runs a highly successful music technology degree course, is running its conference, 'Music & Sound Technology in Education', in July. Yamaha's Music Production section will be there on Mon 7th & Tue 8th July when participating teachers could win a Pocketrak 2G to take home with them!

Jazz Winner of Amateur Pianist Competition Dies

Will Michael, who won the jazz category of last year's Yamaha/The Pianist magazine Amateur Pianist competition in November 2007, died peacefully of Leukemia, in May. He had been looking forward to his competition prize: appearing as a guest at jazz pianist Julian Joseph's November 2008 concert at Ronnie Scott's in London.

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Yamaha Integrates Yamaha Music Schools With Its Broader Educational Activities

Yamaha Music UK has announced internal changes that see the Yamaha Music School network integrating with the company's acclaimed and award-winning mainstream educational initiatives, which include its education magazine YES, education websites and its work with schools, colleges & conservatoires.

Yamaha's Advanced Jazzwise Concessions Going Fast

Enrolments have been pouring in for the Jazzwise Summer School 2008, Europe’s biggest annual short jazz course that runs from 27 July to 1 August 2008, Richmond Surrey. Directed by acclaimed jazz educator Jamey Aebersold, the Jazzwise course is supported by Yamaha. Hurry for the last few Yamaha 'Earlybird' concessions!

Yamaha Announces 2009 Wigmore Hall Debut for YMFE 2008 Piano Competition Winners

Following a staggeringly high performance standard from all 10 finalists at February's Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Piano finals, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Yamaha is to offer the three winners a Wigmore Hall concert during 2009, to help launch their professional careers.

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MIBI Winners Get Gigs & Recording Sessions

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and Yamaha Music announce plans for this year’s acclaimed Make It Break It (MIBI) awards. Entries are now being sought from songwriters between the ages of 14 and 19. The MIBIs provide a high profile professional platform to for the UK's hottest, innovative, up coming songwriters.

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