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Basic Program
Whatever your musical tastes, Trinity College London has the music qualifications for you.
Every year Trinity College London supports the music education of thousands of students with assessments across a wide spectrum including Classical, Jazz and Rock & Pop music.
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Classical & Jazz Grades
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Our graded exams from Initial to Grade 8 allow learners to perform to their strengths; the flexible structure enables learners to gain recognition for their own unique skills as performers.
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Performance is at the heart of Trinity’s graded music assessments as we believe that musicianship is most effectively demonstrated through practical performance.
Our exams can be taken in Piano, Singing, Brass, Electronic Keyboard, Organ, Classical and Acoustic Guitar, Drum Kit & Percussion, Strings, Woodwind and Jazz Woodwind and Theory of Music.
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Piano
Singing
Strings
Guitar - Classical
Guitar
Woodwind & Jazz
Brass
Drum Kit & Percussion
Electronic Keyboard & Organ
Theory of Music
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Rock & Pop
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REAL SONGS.
REAL SKILLS.
REAL PROGRESS.
Rock & Pop graded exams for guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and vocals - from Initial to Grade 8.
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REAL SONGS
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Play the music you love with our huge range of hit songs spanning all contemporary styles. Choose your set list from the eight songs in our new graded songbooks, play a song of your own choice, or perform one you've written yourself.
REAL SKILLS
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Develop the improvisation and playback session skills that professional musicians need. Showcase your technical skills in a real-life context through our technical focus songs, and demonstrate your ability to deliver a compelling live performance.
REAL PROGRESS
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Achieve your goals with an externally regulated and internationally recognised qualification. Trust the 140-year heritage Trinity brings to contemporary music, and benefit from marks and comments on your performance from Trinity's expert examiners.
Work Shops
We will be hosting Worshops with the following Groups, Artists and Organisations
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National Youth Choir Academy and Productions South Africa ( NYCC)
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An academy providing both a choral and musical education and enriching awareness and musical skill in the youth of South Africa
An Academy providing music education to the youth of South Africa. Teaching by choral practices and music workshops covering all kinds of topics. Visits to all genres of local and international music acts as well as musical theatre are arranged.
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To expose and educate the youth of South Africa providing a unique choral and music experience in order to enable them to practice singing or anything involved with music production as a hobby or as a career .
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The NYCCis currently performing with the Parletones .
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North West University
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Background
Bertha Spies was an associate professor in music theory at the NWU School of Music from 1993 until 2003. During the early years of her tenure, Prof Spies recognized a serious need to improve and enrich the lives of children from low socio-economic communities in Potchefstroom. In her view, the method to accomplish this aim was through music making and formal music training. During the last two decades Ms Dirkie Nell and Ms Annette Massyn provided valuable leadership in the Musikhane Community Music Engagement Programme.
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Current configuration
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In response to changing social and economic circumstances, the Musikhane Community Music Engagement Programme has taken on various guises. Currently Musikhane partners with:
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Mosaic to provide approximately 20 participants with beginner instrumental education;
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Vyfhoek Primary School to provide musical experiences to Grade R learners;
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Huis Anna Viljoen to facilitate Dalcroze inspired musical experiences to the elderly;
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Potchefstroom Primary School to engage approximately 50 intermediate phase learners in music learning and ensemble activites.
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Ridgewood College : New Upcoming programme for 2020
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These partnerships serve as valuable relationships with the community, since students get real-time critical feedback on their teaching practice from members of staff and community partners. To enhance the critical service learning possibilities of Musikhane, participation in the programme is integrated as practical experience in the music education and community music modules in the Diploma and BA programmes at the School of Music.
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Purpose
The Musikhane Community Music Engagement Programme strives to create opportunities for meaningful musical experiences for learners and student-teachers involved in the community music programme.
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Vision
Creating opportunities to care for one another through musicing.
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Mission
Musikhane improves the lives of members of the community by providing greater access to meaningful music educational experiences. Through music and movement participants explore what it means to be part of a community of learners, developing their musical and social skills along the way. Student-teachers experience the ecstasy and frustrations of teaching in a real-world setting, equipping them to become future music educators and community music practitioners.
For further information about the Musikhane Community Music Engagement Programme, please contact Dr Janelize van der Merwe.
School Program
Ridgewood College Music is proud to present the Following Programmes as part of Ridgewood Colleges' School Curriculum:
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Choir
Revue
Eisteddfod
Kingdom of Sound | The Adventures of Little Zee
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The Kingdom Of Sound
Early Childhood Music Program
(From 3 years old - Introduction to Music)
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The Kingdom of Sound is a music program designed to take young first time music explorers on an interactive journey into the world of music. The program has been created to first and foremost instil a love and appreciation for music while introducing young students to key foundational music concepts. By means of interactive games, songs, stories, and activities each lesson takes the students on a fantastical journey through the ‘Kingdom Of Sound’ where the students explore foundational music theory, ear training and rhythm development.
In this first of its kind early childhood music program the students will discover the world of music alongside Little Zee, the protagonist from our accompanying storybook: “The Adventures of Little Zee in the Kingdom of Sound”.
Little Zee’s epic adventures across imaginative landscapes will equip the students with foundational music knowledge and skills while diving deep into the mesmerizing history of music, as well as the exciting new world of todays music across all genres and cultures. With our colourful entourage of whacky musical friends from ‘The Kingdom of Sound’, we will embark on a voyage around the world to visit kids just like us to learn more about them and how music fits into their world.
Music lives in all of us and unites us across our differences - Lets teach our kids to love, and how to love and enjoy music while we equip them with the knowledge to become the next generation of songwriters, performers, producers, composers, entertainers, and incredible human beings.
About the program creator
Francois Klark (Mulder) is a Canadian based, South African native, music educator/songwriter/singer/producer. He completed his Bachelors in Music at Thompson Rivers University (British Columbia) and is also a graduate of the Humber College Jazz Diploma Program (Toronto). Francois has been a music educator for just over 9 years and currently teaches at The Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music where he built and spearheads the early childhood music program.
Klark has worked on projects with Universal Music Group UK and is a Universal Music Award winner. He has collected a number of awards including the Oscar Peterson Award, Standard Bank Award for best original composition, Most Promising Performing Solo Artist and he has also been awarded finalist in several international songwriting competitions.
