James Humberstone – EDUCATOR | COMPOSER-PRODUCER | RESEARCHER | TECHNO...

Last week I was lucky enough to meet Anna Bull, the author of Class, Control, and Classical Music (Oxford University Press, 2019: Kindle | OUP). We had a great chat over a long lunch and I know her work is going to make a huge impact on my own, both...

We’ve just had three wonderful days with our Maker-in-Residence, Linsey Pollak! In this episode, I reflect on the learning that went on, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Good, and we hear from my students who were involved in the residency at the Sydney Conservatorium...

A week ago I gave the keynote speech on the opening day of New Zealand’s national music education MENZA conference. I’ll write more about what I shared in a podcast later this year but I wanted to share a quick thought in a blog this morning.
Before the keynote they were the usual opening bits and bobs that you get it every conference. In Australian conferences we should always acknowledge the traditional (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) owners of the land on which we meet, something...

In this week’s podcast, I interview Brad Fuller, director of music at Northern Beaches Christian School, about his pedagogical approach to teaching the class that I described in Episode 6, where our undergraduate pre-service Music Teachers wrestle with...