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Why was the Australian Keyboard
Academy created?
The Australian Keyboard Academy was created by
Lorenzo Capitanio to provide
expert tuition in piano-keyboard music education and to improve the quality of
music education in the private sector.
For decades the private music teaching
sector in Australia has been, and still is, an unregulated industry. Anyone,
regardless of their experience, ability and qualifications can proclaim
themselves a music teacher outside of the mainstream education. Many also
misrepresent music examination grades such as the Australian Music
Examination Board as a formal qualification to teach music.
The Australian Keyboard Academy
believes this lack in the ability to regulate the private music teaching
industry could be a contributing factor as to why so many children give up learning music. Pascoe al et 2005
indicate that,
the most common reason students gave up learning music is that they felt their
lessons have become boring. Although a number of factors can contribute to
students boredom with music lessons, the Australian Keyboard Academy believes the primary reason is that the private music
teaching sector is out-of-date in terms of delivering an engaging contemporary
creative music curriculum and fails to adequately promote music creativity
and current innovations in music pedagogy.
Central to the Australian Keyboard
Academy's philosophy is creating music. A curriculum that engages students
through activities involving composition, improvisation
and working with music technology. The Australian Keyboard Academy's view is echoed in the 2005 National
Review of Music Education reporting that not enough is being done to promote
music creativity, composition, improvisation and music technology in Australian
Schools. The review continues to state that, "it
is possible that students may progress through the different levels of
achievement without ever having a truly creative musical experience that a
student may call his or her own" (Pascoe et al;
2005:47).
The Australian Keyboard academy
is
extremely passionate about promoting a creative music education of the highest
standard for all Australian children and raising the status of music education
in the private sector and
within
Australian schools.
Lorenzo Capitanio has dedicated more than
half his life to the study of keyboards and music, and now, Lorenzo is a highly
regarded music lecturer at three of Melbourne's tertiary music institutions. It has been a life long dream of
Lorenzo to establish his own music school. The Australian Keyboard Academy is
truly the fruits of his labour. Lorenzo has experienced and understands the profound
influence music can make to a child's life and his goal is for all in the
community regardless of their socio-economic circumstances to have access and
the opportunity to learn music, and to experience the joy in creating music.
Lorenzo is very excited about the
Australian Keyboard Academy and invites everyone to come and experience the
creative world of music.
Pascoe, R., Leong, S., MacCallum, J.,
Mackinlay, E., Marsh, K., Smith, B., Church, T., and Winterton, A. (2005).
National Review of School Music Education: Augmenting the diminshed. Australian Government Department
of Education, Science and Training.
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