Are Tonalis Music Courses and Workshops open to everyone? The unequivocal answer to this is - YES!

Tonalis Foundation Trainings are for people who are:
  • seeking to go beyond traditional paradigms in musicing in their quest for
    deeper levels of musical meaning and understanding
  • creative, open-minded and ready to challenge their existing musical knowledge and values
  • searching for a wider range of music training leading to new music career pathways (e.g. Community Musicing).

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    seeking Continuing Professional Development
    Our courses will broaden the expertise you already have, to include new skills and forms of music making that have often been neglected in people’s first music training - often undertaken in an earlier pedagogical climate.

    e.g: Improvisation              World Musics
            Comunity Musicing     Music as a Therapeutic Art
            Research into Children’s Musical Development
            Multi-modal Teaching Methods, (e.g. kinaesthetic ones)
    Through this reorientation New Perspectives will be gained
    to deepen and develop your musical work.
    		 Cello student playing a Knee Viola (Choroi)
    Tonalis Community Music Training in Drum Circle work using Bugarabus

    searching for a new vision of music training
    Everyone can awaken their musicianship given the right opportunity. Tonalis Courses empower non-specialists (e.g. Class Teachers) with new found confidence in their music self so that they can bring high quality singing, instrumental work and creative musicing into their life and work. In addition, our courses will help you develop your practical musicianship skills - which will lead you to a greater understanding of the elements of music, enhanced aural awareness and improved music reading skills - as well as empower your musical creativity.

    N.B. When necessary courses are STREAMED into different groups
    to meet the different needs and skills of non-specialists and trained musicians.
         
         

    These Courses are for all those people interested in improving the quality of music education and who want to prepare themselves to accompany children on a wonderful and exciting musical journey, including:
    Class/Generalist Teachers
    Singing and Instrumental Teachers
    After School Music Club Leaders
    Pre-school Teachers     Education Students     		Music Specialists/Co-ordinators
    Remedial Teachers and Music Therapists
    Composers of Music for Children
    Eurythmists               Parents
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    These Courses are for:
    Performers
    Singing Teachers for: i) Adults    ii) Children
                                         iii) Classroom Teachers
    Teachers for Uncertain Singers     		Healing Voice Therapists
    School Voice Animateurs/Co-ordinators
    Choir Trainers
    Community Voice Animateurs
         (e.g. those people who find it difficult to Pitch Match)
         

    These Courses will equip you to meet the following needs:
    Music for Special Needs: the elderly the handicapped the dying
                                          people in hospitals and prisons
    Music in the Soundscape (and the Streets)
    Outreach Workers for Choirs, etc     		Music as a Community/Team Building Tool
    Singing Animateurs for Uncertain Singers
    Community Composers         Community Choirs Leaders          Music in the Workplace
    Music to Celebrate Festivals e.g. Co-creating festivals for participation in the Cycle of the Year
         
    Drum Circle instruments
         

    These Courses are for people who want to explore the nature of music as a healing art.
    In particular they are designed to meet the need for continuing professional development for:
    Special Needs Teachers Social & Curative Workers Music & Voice Therapists
    Community Musicians Class & Music Teachers Doctors & Health Professionals
         

    Choir Leading is for everyone who wants to cultivate choral singing whether at amateur or professional levels.
    It will address the needs of:
    Children’s and Youth Choirs Church Choirs/Worship Groups
    Community Gospel & World Music Choirs  
    Chamber Music and Early Music Choirs Symphony Choruses & Choral Societies

    Plus, it will also prepare you for working with NON-TRADITIONAL CHOIRS
    e.g. Inter-generational Choirs (e.g. parents with children) Choirs for the Disabled Seniors Choirs.
         

    These Courses offer you the opportunity to explore all the issues concerning music as a sacred practice,
    and meets the emerging need for training sacred music animateurs, e.g.
    Choir Leaders (church & otherwise) Leaders of Prayer Groups and Meditation Circles
    People who Facilitate Music for Celebrations, Rites of Passage, Seasonal and Religious Festivals
    People Interested in Theology through the Arts
     
    		 
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