Songwriting Workshop with Paul Jarman
Experience the magic of songwriting with one of Australia’s leading choral composers
This workshop has sold out.
To be added to the waitlist, please send an email to [email protected]
Fri 28 June – Sun 30 June
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
See schedule below for details
$215
Delve into the wonderful world of songwriting with your mentor, nationally respected composer and musical storyteller Paul Jarman. In this intimate and creative songwriting workshop, you will be encouraged create and share stories and songs with new friends.
This workshop will include an open dialogue of how we write songs. Paul will look at the elements in the songwriters’ toolbox including the nuts and bolts of composing, melodic nuances, finding inspiration and mind set, and integrity in storytelling.
The workshop schedule will include a preliminary meet-and-greet session in the Singers’ Lounge with Paul and your fellow songwriters.
Please note that this workshop has limited capacity, to ensure a personal and in-depth experience for participants.
What's included?
The fee will cover Paul’s tuition, festival accreditation and specially negotiated accommodation rates.
Who should register?
Anyone with an interest in the craft of songwriting will find inspiration in this workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring instruments with them to the venue.
Paul Jarman is a composer, lyricist, performer, musical director, and sought-after conductor, presenter, and adjudicator. He has been commissioned over two hundred times by ensembles in Australia and abroad. Many of Paul’s works have become modern choral standards and his music has been published worldwide.
As a cultural ambassador he has worked extensively throughout Australia, Europe, Asia, North America, the Indian and Pacific Ocean in festivals and special events with theatre productions, Aboriginal-Anglo Celtic performance groups, choirs, and orchestras, and as a multi-instrumentalist in Australia’s pioneering ‘world music’ ensemble Sirocco since 1996, representing Australia for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Musica Viva. He has also performed on various Australian movies and composed the music to Mike Dillon’s award-winning adventure documentary films.
In 2010, Paul’s piece for the 40th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jnr was performed for President Barack Obama in the White House, and in 2016, Paul was the only composer from the Southern Hemisphere among a group of some of todays most accomplished choral composers, commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a piece for the 400th Anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
Paul has composed and conducted the music for Australian special events including the Centenary of Federations, the Bicentenary of the Battle of Vinegar Hill, Year of the Outback, The Olympic Arts Festival, The Rugby World Cup Opening Ceremony, United Nations Year of the Mountain, The Queensland 150th and the Australia Day Spectacular. Paul has also composed over one hundred school anthems and is continually active in the development and promotion of choirs and music institutions across Australia and Asia. He has been the artist in residence at many of Australia’s leading schools. Paul is also the patron of the Orange Male Voice Choir.
"By nature, he can’t help but inspire, not only with his compositions which have a way of challenging every singer to be a better person; but also with his contagious passion, his sincere love of people from all walks of life and his limitless energy."
Julie Christiansen OAM – Founder, Voices of Birralee
Photo credit: Alastair Bett
REGISTRATIONS
This workshop has sold out.
To be added to the waitlist, please send an email to [email protected]
General admission – $215
Booking fee
- For bookings with a total value of $15 or less, a booking fee of $3 will be added upon check-out.
- For bookings with a total value between $15.01 and $199.99, a booking fee of $5 will be added upon
check-out. - For bookings with a total value of $200 or more, a booking fee of $10 will be added upon check-out.
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