Quality music education being central to our agenda, we hosted a number of events that gave our students opportunities to perform, such as the Canada Music Week and many monthly Sunday recitals. Scholarships, trophies and medals were awarded to students … Read More
The Teaching Autistic Students with Emily Naccarato in April explored the special challenges of the students and ideas to teach them effectively.
For the second year the North Shore Music Festival (February 23 – March 8) invited students of RMTs from other branches to participate. This year it offered competitive and non-competitive classes in piano, voice, strings, wind and guitar.
This year, in an effort to give back to our community, we dedicated a recital in February as a fundraiser for a charity that promotes music as a social benefit. We selected as our beneficiary the Eagle Music School at … Read More
A Baroque Dance Workshop took place on February 16, 2019. Catherine Lee, the Artistic Director of Historical Performance Ensemble, engaged us all in the history and influences of this period. We learned the rhythm and steps of the Minuet, Bourree … Read More
An informative and dynamic workshop, Jazz Tidbits, was presented by our member and jazz musician Marcia Meyer in January. Marcia demonstrated how to use jazz elements in our everyday teaching while engaging students in music theory.
For the second year we decorated a Christmas Tree for the Lynn Valley Parade of the Trees.
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We also had a very informative session with Sean Nazareth, CFP&BBA, who explained the group benefits provided by CFMTA to RMTs. The conclusion was that the benefit package is of very high quality and worth exploring by individual members.
With the idea of promoting music and art in the community, the branch participated in BC Culture Days in September 2018. We presented a diverse program at Lynn Valley Centre featuring students and teachers on different instruments – piano, saxophone, … Read More