Having just returned from an extremely stimulating and hugely enjoyable week in Marlborough, I have to yet write up my notes and a review for both Tosini and AOTOS.  We were royally looked after and Penny Price Jones from AOTOS had organised a superb week for us.  There were over 50 participants from 12 European countries with English as the main language spoken and we shared a brilliant week of sharing and experiencing the diversity of teaching in singing. More to come...........

Jenny's lovely student, Aine Darnbrook has gone on to win the prestigious prize at Ballymena Music Festival - NI Singer with a cheque in the sum of £400.00.  Having recently heard Aine sing at Belfast Festival, she is a worthy winner and we wish her well in her musical future.  Congratulations to you, Jenny too - great work!

Tosini Chair travelled to Dublin last night to compete in the Nancy Calthorpe Memorial Prize at the Feis Ceoil.  Despite fierce competition, Mairead played a beautiful selection of music for voice and harp and walked off the 1st Prize and a cheque in the sum of Eur.650!  Well Done, Mairead - thanks for flying the Tosini flag in Dublin too!

Nancy Calthorpe Memorial Prize

Tosini will be represented by our Company Secretary, Marie O'Sullivan at the Vocal Pedagogy Week running from 21 - 28 March 2010.  The Classical Resource Teacher for the course will be Prof. Paul Deegan from AOTOS & Tosini. 

Ninety-one per cent of adults in Britain want children to have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument at school, according to research from the Incorporated Society of Musicians. The ISM research also looked at adults' own musical ambitions. It found that 19% of respondents said they already played an instrument or sang in a choir, and 43% said they would like to do so.

This was a very successful day with over 15 singing teachers in attendance thoroughly enjoying the interactive earlier part of the day, an informative AGM and fascinating presentation given by Paul Deegan.  When the workshop had finished, there were immediately requests for a full day with Paul, working in more depth on the breathing aspect of singing and teaching singing. As ever, Tosini trys to match your needs and requests and we are currently finalising diaries to try and set this up for you all.

Watch this space! (as they say).

Inaugural Training Course for Singing Teachers 2009 The last weekend in October 2009 saw the inaugural training course for singing teachers, which took place at the beautiful Dromantine Conference centre near Newry.

Heartiest congratulations to Ross Anderson on recently passing his Certified Master Teacher in Estill with Reeves & Moller.  Ross has been steadily working towards this qualification over the past few years and is one of the first to receive his licence from Reeve & Moller to practice Estill as a Master Teacher in Northern Ireland, if not Ireland.

Speaking to Ross, he acknowledged the role Tosini had played in introducing him to Estill Voice training........"it's thanks to you I was ever introduced to Estill, so thanks so much!"