We are now taking bookings for our Summer Performing and Fine Arts Programs!

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/summer-performing-and-fine-arts-camp-2019-tickets-51242785551

We also offer classes at our home studio at 13 Bishop st, Coburg

Pick up from Coburg North Primary also an option

The Melbourne Inner North Performing Arts Academy is a social enterprise community music school that provides a nurturing, student-centered, life enriching and musically challenging environment for students of all ages.

We provide community focussed performing arts experience for students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including asylum seekers, single parents and those in need. By intilling students with a life-long love for music, bridging communities through music and engagement with cultural diversity, we enrich the social and intellectual fabric of our local community
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We specialize in Individual Vocal & Instrumental Classes for Adults and Children as well as multi-instrumental classes for children from the age of 0 - 18.

Programs we offer include:

Baby Sensory Music Enrichment classes
Kindergarten multi-instrumental 2 hour drop-off sessions 6 days a week
The Melbourne Children’s Choir - as part of the Boite Children's Chorus
Individual instrumental and vocal tuition for adults and children of all ages
Kid's Rock Band
Kid's Songwriting
Parent & Child Musical Journeys

We follow the Australian Curriculum for Music Education and ensure the following standards are met in all lessons at the academy - Early Childhood - Grade 2

• become aware of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture
• explore sounds as they learn to listen to and make music
• learn to discriminate between sounds and silence, and loud and soft sounds
• learn to move and perform with beat and tempo
• learn to listen as performers and as audience

Grade 3-4

• extend their understanding of the elements of music as they develop their aural skills
• match pitch and show the direction of a tune with gesture or drawings
• recognise difference between notes moving by step and by leap
• recognise and discriminate between rhythm and beat
• explore meaning and interpretation, forms, and elements including rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture as they make and respond to music
• learn to listen as performers and as audience, extending their awareness of themselves and others as performers and as audience

Grades 4-5

• further their understanding of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music
• extend their understanding and use of aural skills as they sing and play independent parts against contrasting parts and recognise instrumental, vocal and digitally generated sounds
• explore and use rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music they perform and compose
• explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements of music as they make and respond to music.

Grades 5-6

• further their understanding of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music
• extend their understanding and use of aural skills as they sing and play independent parts against contrasting parts and recognise instrumental, vocal and digitally generated sounds
• explore and use rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture in music they perform and compose
• explore meaning and interpretation, forms and elements of music as they make and respond to music.

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Music gives a soul to the universe, flight to the imagination, and life to everything - Plato

WE BUILD MUSICANS OF THE FUTURE BY BUILDING BRIDGES

​THROUGH MUSIC EDUCATION

I acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal owners of country throughout Victoria and pay my respect to them, their culture and their Elders past, present and future

We support Music Victoria and Rainbow Families in our community