The Miami High Contemporary Music Excellence Program is a unique music performance course. Students are offered a high-quality and challenging curriculum to maximise and develop skills beyond existing levels of their achievement and experience. The holistic nature of the course focused on performance excellence is designed to prepare students to thrive in a demanding music pathway to senior schooling and beyond.
Course structure and overview
The Contemporary Music Excellence Program provides for the development of each music student by exploring the potential of their ability by way of theoretical and practical tuition. Students will undertake classes designed to maximise and develop skills beyond existing levels of their achievement and experience.
Musicians will have access to the latest music pedagogical trends and performance frameworks through the practical engagement of industry professionals and teachers.
The program will include specific extension classes designed to strengthen Composition, Performance and Musicianship.
Regular musical assessment and reflection, recording and analysis workshops and music performance through specific skill and concept improvement are aimed at developing the whole musician.
Key Areas
As part of the Music Excellence program students will be required to compose, perform and analyse music. Students in the Music Excellence program are challenged to exceed all expectations in Music through:
- Intensive workshops with guest musicians and ‘musician in residence’ programs.
- The Miami High music department partners with institutions to develop our young musicians.
- Music technology including studio recording and composition software. Students engage with song writing in popular and traditional genres and composing for moving image.
- Live performance opportunities for the school and wider community.
Music Excellence students will also gain valuable experience via workshops with professional music providers as part of the ongoing learning environment offered to successful students.
Cost
An annual fee in addition to the school resource scheme fee is payable before a student commences in an Excellence Program and each subsequent year that the student is a part of a program. The cost for the Contemporary Music Excellence Program is $275 per semester.