Rosewood Tutors for 2024
Every year at Rosewood we have a new team of highly talented professional tutors providing workshops for various musical instruments and different skill levels as well as for singing, dancing, arts and crafts, and children's activities. Tutors prepare a program for workshop participants for learning various tunes on their instruments, singing, dancing or creating artwork.
For example, we always have tutors for string instruments (violins, violas, cellos, basses) at both beginner and intermediate skill levels, tutors for guitarists at both the previous mentioned levels, tutors for whistles, tutors for ukulele's, tutors for the Youth band, tutors for dancing and for choral singing, and many more. We also provide a supervisor for craft activities and children's activities. Sometimes we have a tutor for instrument making!
On the Friday evening, when everyone has arrived, set up their campsites or moved into their bunkhouses and had dinner, our new team of tutors feature in a concert and one after the other they describe what will happen in their respective workshops. If they're musicians or singers they then entertain us with some wonderful music on their preferred instrument or by singing.
For example, we always have tutors for string instruments (violins, violas, cellos, basses) at both beginner and intermediate skill levels, tutors for guitarists at both the previous mentioned levels, tutors for whistles, tutors for ukulele's, tutors for the Youth band, tutors for dancing and for choral singing, and many more. We also provide a supervisor for craft activities and children's activities. Sometimes we have a tutor for instrument making!
On the Friday evening, when everyone has arrived, set up their campsites or moved into their bunkhouses and had dinner, our new team of tutors feature in a concert and one after the other they describe what will happen in their respective workshops. If they're musicians or singers they then entertain us with some wonderful music on their preferred instrument or by singing.
Be sure to check the Latest News page about two more tutors -
Dave Arden and King Bell!
Dave Arden and King Bell!
Bruce Watson - Beginner Guitars & Ukuleles
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Bruce's performances are joyful and engaging. He is a masterful craftsman of songs, from evocative and heart wrenching to side-splittingly funny. An Australian folk icon, he has performed at over 200 festivals and innumerable other venues throughout Australia, NZ & the UK. He has received many songwriting awards and had his songs covered by several prominent artists.He has produced eight albums of original songs, received radio airplay across Australia.
“Bruce is a wordsmith, a spinner of yarns with passion and integrity. An Australian folk hero!” (The Boite). “The best songwriter I have seen in a long time.” (Eric Bogle) |
Mickey O'Donnell - Beginner & Intermediate Strings
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Mickey O’Donnell is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator based in Geelong. Known for his distinctive left handed playing, he has performed all over Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Kenya. While he began his career in jazz violin, he was unable to resist the infectious groove of Celtic and American fiddle styles, and his compositions have become a glorious mix of the two. Expect to learn some outrageously fun tunes, and be pushed just a little bit out of your comfort zone.
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Oscar West - Whistles
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Born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised in New Zealand, Oscar is a fiddler, piper and whistle player based in Melbourne. He is the session leader at the popular “Chill” Sunday Tunes session at The Last Jar, a history enthusiast and a spirited performer of traditional music.
Oscar is also a passionate Scottish smallpiper, Irish whistle player and current secretary of the Victoria-based Celtic Piping Club. He has toured, recorded and performed as Polytropos with flute player Rennie Pearson, Irish dance show Celtica and Shakespearean company Pop-up Globe in New Zealand and Australia as a musician and actor. |
Sile Coleman - Songs for kids
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Join Sile for a fun and inclusive singing workshop (ages 5-12) where we will come together, share voices, make friends and learn a song to share. Sile’s approach is based on the values of accessibility and community, and most importantly, fostering the inherent creativity of children through song.
Sile has been part of Irish band, Saoirse, for over 16 years, singing up a storm at festivals in in Australia and overseas. Music education has always been at the heart of Sile’s teaching career with training in the Early Years, Primary and Secondary; teaching the love of music, singing, guitar, ukulele and choir. Sile facilitates a local all-age, all-ability choir, the All In Sing, in the North East of Victoria. |
OTHER TUTORS FOR ROSEWOOD 2024
Below is a list of the other Tutors booked for music, singing, dance and yoga workshops. This page will be updated with more photos and more information about these tutors.
Sam Lemann returns to lead intermediate ukulele and guitar classes. One of Australia’s most in-demand session musicians, and a lover of Hawaian music.
Maggie Rigby from the MAEs is a seasoned professional singer and songwriter who more or less grew up at our music camps along with her other sister, Elsie. She will lead the Big Sing.
Vincent and Tanya Bradley lead our massive ensemble this year. They are professional players of trumpet and fiddle respectively, and experienced teachers in schools and other places.
Suzi Mzuri returns to lead African dance with some of her Sudanese friends. Mzuri Dance has been a leading African dance school in Melbourne for decades. Suzi is a veteran of Roses Gap/Rosewood camps, and also works in schools and with African communities in Melbourne.
Tess and Lulu Hickey are members of the award-winning Celtic-style trio “Apolline” which is making big waves in the local music scene. For us this year, they combine their knowledge and love of strings, horns and singing to lead the Youth Band.
Jon Madin brings his famous trailer full of marimbas and other wacky instruments to camp. Reassess your ideas about “orchestration”!
Wendy Ashton returns...again! How else would we start off our days at camp, other than a serene yoga session with Wendy?
Below is a list of the other Tutors booked for music, singing, dance and yoga workshops. This page will be updated with more photos and more information about these tutors.
Sam Lemann returns to lead intermediate ukulele and guitar classes. One of Australia’s most in-demand session musicians, and a lover of Hawaian music.
Maggie Rigby from the MAEs is a seasoned professional singer and songwriter who more or less grew up at our music camps along with her other sister, Elsie. She will lead the Big Sing.
Vincent and Tanya Bradley lead our massive ensemble this year. They are professional players of trumpet and fiddle respectively, and experienced teachers in schools and other places.
Suzi Mzuri returns to lead African dance with some of her Sudanese friends. Mzuri Dance has been a leading African dance school in Melbourne for decades. Suzi is a veteran of Roses Gap/Rosewood camps, and also works in schools and with African communities in Melbourne.
Tess and Lulu Hickey are members of the award-winning Celtic-style trio “Apolline” which is making big waves in the local music scene. For us this year, they combine their knowledge and love of strings, horns and singing to lead the Youth Band.
Jon Madin brings his famous trailer full of marimbas and other wacky instruments to camp. Reassess your ideas about “orchestration”!
Wendy Ashton returns...again! How else would we start off our days at camp, other than a serene yoga session with Wendy?