This is the home page of the Dandenong
Ranges Music Council Incorporated, an arts organisation
located in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.
The DRMC has been funding, facilitating and teaching community
music for over thirty years. The Dandenong Ranges Music Council
Inc. is assisted by the Yarra Ranges
Council.
Community music is for everyone, beginner
to professional. It enriches our lives and gives us opportunities locally to sing, play, perform,
jam, create and listen.
2013
EDUCATION WEEK 23 MAY @ BURRINJA
MUSIC SPEAKS
DRMC will host workshops and a performance for concert band musicians on Thursday 23rd May at 7.30pm at Burrinja as part of EDUCATION WEEK. Musicians from Lilydale, Upwey and Norwood High Schools and the New Horizons Band will perform under the musical direction of Brian Hogg.
The Dandenong Ranges Music Council invites all young string players to attend Monday afternoon rehearsals at 4pm commencing 15 April at the Community Music Centre Upwey High School. The new orchestra will be part of the education week concert on 23 May at Burrinja Theatre. Instrument scholarships for viola, cello and couble bass are available for suitable and very lucky young musicians. Please contact Musical Director Rosie Burns 9754 8060.
'HEAR ME OUT' is an interactive sound art & music making project for disadvantaged young people working with sound artist/composer Jessica Pinney, Rap artist Grant Gronewold and African Master Drummer Kofi Kunkpe in partnership with Yarra Ranges Council Youth Services and Dandenong Ranges Music Council and supported by the Harold Mitchell Foundation.
Over 7 x 2hr weekly sessions and 1 x 4hr session you will explore the world around us through sound, listening to, playing with and creating spoken word, vocal sounds & lyrics, percussion, rhythms & beats and putting these together with a collection of recorded sounds that will be gathered during small field trips in and around the surrounding area.
No previous experience required and there is no cost to participate.
Places are limited so please show your interest by contacting
Angie, Sharon or Sean at Yarra Ranges Council Youth Services on
For further information contact: Pauline Derrick 0417 552 863
NICHOLAS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CD $25
To order: http://www.trybooking.com/BZTV
* Peter and The Wolf op67 by Sergei Prokofiev
narrated by Derek Guille
* Clarinet Concerto No.1 in C minor by Louis Spohr
Ashley Sutherland soloist
* Sacrae Symphoniae No.1: Canzon Duodecimitony
Giovanni Gabrieli
* Past Live Melodies
Sarah Hopkins
* Stax the Didgeman
* Dean Fenkel
* Singularity
Cost includes Postage and Handling.
What's happening in 2013?
The DRMC wants to hear from musicians, composers, community groups, schools and individuals about new music ideas and projects for 2013. Does the community need a composers' collective, a hurey gurdey orchestra or even a kerosene tin percussion group? Perhaps there are hidden bassoons, oboes and cor anglais players just waiting for an opportunity. Tell us at drmc.org.au or phone: Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays 9754 6566