Music education provides students with many opportunities for self-expression and assists them to develop their full potential. It helps students make sense of sound and to appreciate the aesthetic qualities in the sounds of natural and technological environments. In music, students also learn unique approaches to problem solving through the active and reflective processes of both listening to and making music.

 

Music education enables all students to contribute to the cultural life of their schools, families and communities through making and sharing music. It also makes available to students a wide range of future opportunities in arts-related employment.

 

 

 

Music enables students to participate in a variety of performance and composing situations and it allows students to continue to appreciate and enjoy music as an interest or as a career.

These industries have music as an important component:
Entertainment, Broadcasting, Multimedia production, Education, Music Therapy.

 

 

As well as opting to participate in the many music groups and courses that are offered, students can choose to also take music tuition at Howick College. We offer tuition in the following:

Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, French Horn, Euphonium, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drum kit and Voice.

The tuition is provided by professional teachers who come to the college each week. The lessons take place during school time in small groups on a rotating timetable so that students do not miss the same class each week. We have some instruments available for hire. Students taking Music as a subject get first priority for lessons and we welcome both beginner and experienced players. There is usually more demand for lessons than there are places available so a student's continued participation is dependant on their commitment and progress throughout the year. Enrolment takes place in the first two weeks of term one each year.

 

 

Itinerant Teachers:

Hamish Arthur - Brass/Jazz Band

Glen Child - Drums

Yih-Hsin Huang - Woodwind

Deanne Kathagen - Vocal

Alister Morrison - Guitar

Mary Sutton - Cello/Bass

John Seagar - Violin/Viola

Tony Webster - Woodwind

Anthony Young - Composition/Harmony/Aural