INCLUSIVE & SPECIAL NEEDS WORKSHOP 2018

04 December 2018Wits Centre for Deaf Studies

TOPIC

Inclusive Music Education:Community Music

& Special Needs

Background• UWC Music Department (1975-2001)

Arts Faculty :B.A. (Music) & Diploma in Music Teaching

UWC Music Alumni –National & International footprint

• Centre for the Performing Arts (2005-2017)Rectorate:

Intermediate Programme in MusicAdvanced Programme in Music

Finding Relevance in an evolving education system

• UWC Music Department, under the Arts Faculty, was closed after 27 year history.

• WCED Music – posts closed, replaced by SGB posts Music included as Arts and Culture curriculumArts Focus Schools – starts at secondary, not primary education.

• CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS- FOCUS AREASCommunity EngagementLifelong learningDistance learning

• COMMUNITY MUSIC, for students from- Community Music Projects- UWC from various faculties- other tertiary institutions- primary and secondary schools not offering music

• (RE)THINKING & (RE)CREATING COMMUNITY MUSIC AT UWC- the re-positioning of Centre for the Performing Arts under a new management line.- to retain the community engagement focus in providing quality music education to community music practitioners in order to retain support for government partnership.

- providing extra-curricular, Continuing Education Courses which includes students from various faculties at UWC, other tertiary institutions, community music practitioners (without matric) ndschool learners

Intermediate & AdvancedProgrammes in Music(Continuing Education Courses approved by

UWC Senate on 25 May 2013)• Intermediate Programme (NQF 4 – 900 credits)Practical: Grades 1 - 4 (Instrument/Voice; Aural & Ensemble)General Musicianship: Grades 1-2 (Theory, History of Music)

• Advanced Programme (NQF 7 – 1100 credits)Practical: Grade 5 – Associate Diploma (ATCL) (Instrument/Voice; Aural , Improvisation & Ensemble)General Musicianship: Grades 3-5 (Theory, History of Music, Form)

Internal Assessments: June & NovemberExaminers: Instrumental specialists from neighbouring universities, music centres and professional orchestraModerator: Emeritus Professor Nicholas Basson

External examinations: Trinity College of Music, London Grades 1-8 & Associate Diploma (ATCL – examination is a 45 minute recital)

Practical Teaching Programme• Strings – Violin, viola, cello• Woodwinds – flute, clarinet, saxophones.• Brass – trumpet, trombone, french horn.• Percussion – drumkit, rhythmic percussion.• Steelpans• Piano – Classical & Jazz• Voice – Classical & Contemporary• Guitar - Jazz

Year Students

2011 10

2012 17

2013 27

2014 30

2015 52

2016 45

2017 45

Steelpans students travel from Riebeeck Kasteel to UWC, weekly, for lessons.

CPA Staff• ADMINISTRATIVE – Administrative

Assistant (Soraya Hofmeyer) & Community Engagement Coordinator (Nathan Lawrence)

• TEACHING – Prof Juergen Schwietering, Anel Galvin, Sean Kierman, Stephan Galvin, Dave Reynolds, George Werner Keith Jenneker, Anna-Marie Kotze, Marvin Kernelle, Phil Robinson, Alvin Dyers

• ENSEMBLES – George Werner, Sean Kierman, Peter Roux, Anel Galvin, Levi Alexander. Prof Juergen Schwietering.

‘…carefully selected teaching staff with high national and international pedagogical and performance profiles. External moderation is in place for all practical and theoretical examinations. Moderators are carefully selected from surrounding universities and music schools’. (Pamela Kierman, Course evaluation 2016)

Students’ Achievements

Muneeb Hermans (trumpet), will be doinghis ATCL recital performance (Diploma) on 14November 2017. Below photos taken at Joyof Jazz 2017 where Muneeb performed withand met legendary jazz musicians BranfordMarsalis & Joshua Redman. He has launchedhis band, MH Quartet this year and iscurrently on tour with Cape Town 7 StepsMinstrels in Seychelles.

Jeandre Gabriels’ debut at The Crypt with the Alvin Dyers Trio (2017)

Abubaker Petersen(tenor saxophone),signed a 3-yearcontract to performin Dubai. He left onWednesday 25October 2017 andhad his firstperformance onFriday, 27 October.

UMSAEP 2011 & 2013

• Celebrating the 25th AnniversaryPartnership between UWC and UMSL withthe Arianna String Quartet

• UMSAEP Grant – 3 week programme ofworkshops, masterclasses and concerts.Launched the UWC accredited courses andChamber Music Institute.

2011

2013

Arianna String Quartet, University of Missouri St Louis

Partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport (DCAS)

• Partnership Agreement signed by Prof Tyrone Pretorius & Brent Walters (DCAS, HOD) in July 2015

• 3-year partnership, 20 students tuition fees sponsored in full (2015-2017)

• DCAS selects students from community music initiatives they support annually, as far as West Coast and Overberg

• UWC CPA contracts the relevant staff members for individual instrumental tuition, theory, aural, ensemble and improvisation.

• DCAS selected students registered in the Intermediate and Advanced Programmes in Music.

• Adjudicate Annual Funding Applications (2016 & 2017)

Certification Ceremony

DEAN SNYMAN receiving his certificate. Dean completed Grade 8 in 2016

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Prof Vivienne Lawack, addresses the audience and students and presents certificates to the successful students.

Anel Galvin, Reeds teacher, with her saxophone students who received their certificate for completing the Intermediate Programme in Music.

Course Evaluationby Pamela Kierman,

Head of Brass, Stellenbosch University • CONCLUDING NOTES:• ‘The former Music Department of UWC has a long history of musical excellence; indeed, many graduates from this Department

occupy leading positions in the music world of South Africa today at ArtsCape, the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town and many more throughout the country, and further afield.

• …the CPA is extremely under-resourced; the university occupies an incredibly important niche in music education in South Africa today. It is providing access to community musicians who would otherwise not have access to formal music education. The Western Cape has huge numbers of community musicians participating in community music activities; the Christmas Choirs, Klopse, Brass Bands of the Moravian Church and the Salvation Army, the Brigade Bands of the Calvinist Protestant, Methodist, Anglican, and Uniting Reformed Churches, the Bands of the Old Apostolic Church, and the orchestral programmes of the New Apostolic Church are all community music organisations, which have immeasurable amounts of musical talent waiting to be realised.

• My Masters was focussed on the many community music organisations (largely brass-based), which are prevalent in the Western Cape, and the role that community music or non-formal music education plays in the development of professional musicians.

• In the concluding paragraphs of my research I noted the following: • …I approached this research with an open mind, but with the preconception that the formal sector in teaching was more important

in the greater scheme of music education in the Western Cape. I need to reiterate that this is not the case, and that non-formalstructures, i.e. those associated with community music, far outweigh what is done formally. This dissertation points out thatcommunity music, as such, is the supervening music-cultural influence in the Western Cape.

• It is thus indeed of great importance that the CPA is in a phase of rejuvenation and development; community musicians by far outnumber professional musicians in this province, and nationally, and the courses established and presented at the CPA, UWC, isan acknowledgement of the immense potential of this “supervening cultural influence”.

• Music education is not only a means to acquire musical skills in order to have access to possibilities for future employment in the Service Bands (Military and Police), orchestras and other ensembles of the country, but is also an important skills development and social transformation tool for communities that are plagued by the social pathologies that abound in South Africa today. Music education has an enormous impact on cognitive skills, and provides constructive leisure time activities for the youth of today – the CPA is a major role player in this arena and I would urge the university to assist in the acquisition of the necessary resources to allow this programme to become the leading programme of its kind on the African continent. It is headed up by a visionary, vibrant Director, who has taken many other programmes to great heights in South Africa and she is a valuable asset to UWC.

Ensembles

• Chamber Choir• String Quartet• Jazz Combo• Brass Ensemble• Clarinet Choir• Saxophone

Ensemble• Wind Orchestra

UWC String Quartet with Harlem String Quartet (2013)

UWC Brass Ensemble (2014)

Chamber Choir

UWC Chamber Choir –St. George’s Cathedral

Mandela Day 2011 with Boston City Singers & Fezeka Alumni Choir – UWC CPA

University of Namibia (2014)

Village Harmony (2013)

Williams College Choir , Hyde Park Primary, Parkwood (2012)

BCS – Hlengisa P.S., Nyanga

BCS – Montevideo PS, Montana (2017)

MALMO

UNIV2016

Jazz Combo

Sport Function, Parliament (2013)

2016

2017

Jazz Vespers – St. George’s Cathedral 2014)

EduJazz Debut – Baxter (2012)

Montague Museum (2017)

CEU Mandela Days 2017

Wind OrchestraEDUJAZZ

2014

A R T S C A P E

JAZZ

VESPERS

ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL

Performances

• Orientation Programme/Welcome• Graduation Ceremonies• Faculty Award Ceremonies• CEU Substance Abuse Awards

Ceremonies• UWC Open Day• UWC Events & Conferences

International CollaborationsBoston City Singers, USA (2011, 2017)Greifswald Choir, Germany (2012)Bingham Young University, USA (2012)Williams College Choir, USA (2012)Village Harmony, International (2013)Harlem String Quartet, USA (2013)University of Namibia Choir, Namibia (2014)Steinkjer Chamber Choir, Norway (2014)University of Stuttgart Orchestra, Germany (2015)Malmo University Orchestra & Choir, Sweden (2016)

UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART ORCHESTRA –UWC WIND ORCHESTRA, ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL 2015

Awards

2015 Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport: Minister’s Award for Outstanding Achievement for Youth in the Arts (Music).2016 Department of Social Development: Ministerial Award for Service and Leadership

‘Henriette Weber,…. In 2007 she was awarded the DCAS Minister’s Special Award for Outstanding Achievement of Youth in the Arts (for her work in the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra= CPO Outreach and Education Programme). In 2015 she received the DCAS Minister’s Special Award for Youth in the Arts and Culture Field (for the establishment of accredited courses for Community Music Practitioners) and in 2016 was awarded the Department of Social Development Ministerial Award for Service and Leadership (for the impact of the UWC CPA courses in the community’ (Pamela Kieran, Course review 2016)

UWC DVC Academic Excellence AwardsExcellent Partner Award – Athlone School for the Blind AssociationHenriette Weber – Individual: Community Engagement

CPO Outreach and EducationSchool’s Concerts

• Carel du Toit Centre, Tygerberg Hospital(Three Little Pigs, Time Machine)• Dominican School for Deaf Learners, Wynberg

ECD MUSIC PROGRAMMEAthlone School for the Blind, Glenhaven

• DCAS Funding Teacher & equipment

• Teaching Tues, Wed & Fri 09:00-11:00

• Instruments: Orff Percussion & Recorder• ASBA: ECD students,

upgraded facilities

Music Programme for Special Needs Learners

Athlone School for the Blind Association• Music Programme for Early Childhood

Development (ECD) learners (2017)• ECD, Gr R & Gr 1 Learners – Music Programme

& Reeds & Brass Programme – Senior Phase (2018)

• Student Intern – Tory Gilligan (Boston, USA)• International Guest – Rik Guesquiere

(Belgium)

Henriette Weber, UWC CPA

Music Programme – Special Needs

Henriette Weber, UWC CPA

DONORSMyra Chapman Education Trust (MCET)Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development TrustMrs Wendy Ackerman

Prof. & Mrs Brian O’ConnellAnonymous Donor

Donor 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

MCET 60 000 80000 100 000 120 000 140 000 160 000 180 000

DCAS ECD Music

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ATMDT - - 20 000 20 000 20 000 - -

Wendy Ackerman

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Prof O’Connell

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Anonymous 20 000 20 000 20 000 20 000 - -

Service Learning / Internships

• Donor Funding

• Community Music Projects

• Music Programmes for Special Needs

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Henriette Weber, UWC CPA

Oasis Special Needs School

KIMBERLEY SATELLITE CAMPUS

• Venue: CBC St Patrick’s

• Collaboration Agreement with CBC St. Patrick’s

• Participants/Students:CBC St Patrick’s Staff and matriculantsSouth African Police Band, KimberleyAmandla Danca Teatro, Galeshewe

• 21 Students registered for 2019 intake

• Teaching Staff from Kimberley and Bloemfontein

THANK YOU