Author: Susanna Cassam

The lovely people at The Band Project are running a junior band course during the Feb half term. They are looking for singers, guitarists, drummers and Keyboard players aged 8 – 10. Dates and prices will be confirmed asap. 

They are also looking for 3 singers aged 11 – 12 for a senior band workshop on February 7th 10am – 1pm at Brighton Electric, BN2. The workshop will cost £24 + VAT.

If you might be interested in the junior or senior band course you can find out more here: www.thebandproject.co.uk, or contact them here: [email protected].

SCMT are launching a new photo competition this month. We are looking for the best musical photo of our students. It can be the student on their own or with their tutor/sibling/parent. First prize is £50, second prize is £25 and third prize is £10, we will announce the winner on the 1st March. Send your entries to [email protected], before the 1st March. Please be aware that upon sending photos in reply, we will assume your permission to use them on our website and social media marketing. We can’t wait to see your pictures!

Susanna Cassam Music Tuition is now recruiting piano teachers to teach one to one private lessons in and around Brighton and Hove.

Tutors must have piano grade 8, teaching experience, references, a CV available… and will be subject to a detailed vetting process.

Great rates of pay.

Must be able to teach from your own home and travel to students home.

Own transport preferable, if you do not have your own transport you must be willing to travel across Brighton and Hove for lessons.

Flexible hours, from 3-20 hours a week.

If you do not have CRB that can be obtained through us.

Please contact us direct on 07720 770153 or email [email protected] for more information.

For all students wishing to take exams in March the deadline for entry through SCMT is this Friday (16th January).

Please let your tutor know if you would like to sit an exam and have not discussed it yet. Your tutor will then enter you through us.

Watch this space for exam hints and tips.

On the 22nd December our very own Susanna gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy named Arlo. What a fantastic Christmas present…. Welcome to the family Arlo!

Susanna will now be on maternity leave for the next few months, but fear not SCMT will still be business as usual. We can’t wait to see what musical adventures 2015 brings us.

From all of us here at SCMT we would just like to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We have had a brilliant year and it has just been topped of by an amazing set of exam results, so well done guys. Thanks to everyone for all their support and to all our lovely tutus for their on going hard work! See you in 2015!

A huge thank you and well done to all our lovely students who performed in this year’s SCMT Christmas Concert. We had some outstanding performances. It was great to see the little one’s who have only just begun and also the more experienced players side by side. What a great way to see in the Christmas holiday. We managed to take a picture of all performers in each concert too!

 Concert 3 Concert 2Concert 1

Eeek, only 2 days to go till our Christmas concert, excited is an understatement. By now all students taking part should be well prepared and know which concert they are in. All the details are below… we can’t wait to see you all there!

Date: Sunday 7th Dec

Venue: St Nicholas Church Brighton

Times: 

Concert 1 – 2pm
Concert 2 – 3.30pm
Concert 3 – 5pm

Adult tickets are £5 on the door and there will, as usual, be refreshments served.

Our lovely and very talented piano and clarinet tutor Jacqui has got a new band. It is a duo called Woodrock. You can hear them here https://soundcloud.com/woodrock-1. Here at SCMT we just love them, hopefully you will too! There are two websites at the bottom you can use to get in contact with the duo if you might like to book them.

Band Profile:

“Woodrock” is a newly formed collaborative duo with Tamás Rock, from Budapest, Hungary and Jacqui Attwood from Brighton.

Their music is a combination of self composed pieces and music from diverse lands including Bossa Nova from Brazil, Latin-Jazz, Tango from Argentinia as well as French Musette and Balkan Sevdalinka melodies from Bosnia.

Tamás plays classical guitar and Jacqui saxophone, clarinet and accordion. For more information on their careers and future gigs/bookings; please visit:

 www.cirkuszka.com and www.jacquelineattwoodmusic.com

If you’re looking for a music school in Brighton, SCMT might be just what you’re looking for. Get in touch and we’ll be happy to help.

November the 6th sees the birthday of not one but two very influential figures within the musical instrument world. Adolphe sax, inventor of the saxophone and John Philip Sousa, inventor of the sousaphone. So in honour of that, this month SCMT will be focusing on instrument inventors as part of our ‘Composer/Musician of the Month’ feature. Watch this space to find out more on the people who invented the musical instruments of today….

Adolphe Sax                                                     John Philip Sousa

Our lovely sax/clarinet teacher, Vicky (pictured) and her brilliant band Neon Saints Brass Band will be putting on a free show in Brighton this Friday. This is of course Halloween, so we should all get our costumes on and hit the town (over 18s only I’m afraid). Details are as follows:

Date: Friday 31st October

Venue: The Worlds End, London Road, Brighton

Time: 9pm onwards

Price: FREE!

You can find out all the details, here on their Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/861163430569180/?ref=22

If you are stuck for something to do this half term why not try this workshop, hosted by The Band Workshop. They have got a guest vocal coach in on Thursday 30th October at the Brighton Electric music studios. Well worth looking into if you are interested in singing or already taking singing lessons.

For more information on The Band Project or to register for workshop visit www.thebandproject.co.uk, email [email protected] or call 07771 456955.

Our amazingly talented piano and trumpet teacher Ian plays in a brilliant function band called Shine On. They are available for all sorts of functions/parties. Here at SCMT we love their music!

Here’s what the band have to say about themselves on their website:

‘We are an experienced 5-piece rock, pop, britpop and indie band regining from Brighton in East Sussex. We all met while studying music at Brighton’s Institute of Modern Music college. Since then we have gone professional and have played at loads of private events, weddings and corporate events, both in the UK and overseas in Germany & Sweden.’

‘We’ll provide you and your guests with 2 hours of live music as standard, along with party music between sets via our pre-made playlists on our laptop. The PA and lighting we use is suitable for up to 350 people. We also offer the option to upgrade some services, but you can get all the essential services at the lower price range. ‘

‘Our repertoire is brimming with rock, pop, britpop and indie covers. You can expect to hear tracks from: Arctic Monkeys, Blur, The Clash, The Beatles, Kasabian, Kings of Leon and many more.’

For more information or to book this band please check out their website: https://www.shineonband.co.uk/.

You can also catch them in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-1TW-g2_VQ

William is one of our most engaging, inspired and talented young piano teachers. Have you seen his profile yet? Check it out below! He travels out to lessons within Brighton and Hove and has some spaces left.  What are you waiting for?  A brilliant choice of teacher for young beginners and teens…

Profile:

William was classically trained in both Piano and Jazz Clarinet from an early age, but soon discovered that his passion was to become an all-round musician. He loves to constantly challenge himself and extend his knowledge about music at all levels, and spends a lot of time composing, both with the piano and using synthesizers.

Will recently graduated with an upper class honours degree in Music from the University of Sussex, where he ventured into the areas of music and visual programming, musicology and music technology. In the past year, Will has worked as an intern at Brownswood Records, an international record label managed by Radio One DJ, Gilles Peterson, whom he worked with closely. There he learned critical skills in marketing, artists and repertoire, and data management.

Will’s lessons will be designed around each student’s needs and he has a reputation for spotting areas of talent and strength in a student. William’s arrangements are flexible, he is able to come to the students house or make arrangements elsewhere.

As you may already know SCMT have an ongoing feature, whereby we will be promoting gigs, bands, albums and much more from the SCMT musicians….

Next Friday (17th October) our lovely singing teacher Zara (pictured), will be performing at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton. Doors open at 19:00 and there is an age restriction: Over 18s only. Tickets cost £5 and can be purchased here: https://lout.gigantic.com/brighton-rocks/sticky-mikes-frog-bar/2014-10-17-19-00. It should be a brilliant night, well worth checking it out!

Zara is a solo artist, you can find out more on her website here: www.zarakershaw.com and on her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/zarakershawmusic.

This month we’re celebrating the great institution that is ABRSM. ABRSM stands for Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. I’m sure that a lot of our students will be familiar with ABRSM as they are the main exam board that we use for students wanting to take graded music exams.

This year ABRSM are celebrating 125 years of music their music exams. In recognition of this, throughout October, we will be featuring this exam board in depth, more information and history. Even some exam practice and performance tips…. this will come in handy for all our students taking exams in November! Watch this space…

Here at SCMT we are so excited about our new feature we have named ‘ Music in Brighton and Hove from the SCMT community’. In the SCMT ranks we have some fantastic musicians, they perform all over the country in all different types of groups or on their own and we want everyone to know about it. So we will be promoting gigs, bands, albums and much more from the SCMT musicians….

Starting with a gig from one of our brilliantly talented piano teachers happening today. Al Scott and his jazz band will be performing tonight at the Bristol Arms in Brighton from 8pm. You can find all of the details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/720415844673734/

Please watch this space for more on Al Scott and his band and the rest of the amazing musicians we have working with us!