TMTA North & North West branches invites all instrumental and vocal students of TMTA members to participate in an afternoon of music making and performances at the 2025 TMTA Music Awards.
A friendly and supportive environment, the TMTA Music Awards is a great opportunity for students to perform to a small audience and share in live performances together. Adjudicator, Dr Rae De Lisle will provide feedback and adjudicate the awards in three sections on the day:
- Mme. Helen George Awards (Grades 3-5)
- Ann McGarry Award (Grade 6-8)
- Graeme Buchanan Award (Diploma)
Students need not have completed an exam to participate in the sections/awards. A copy of the music should be provided for the adjudicator on the day and entries must be received prior to the performance day.
Audience entry is $10 per adult (children are free) or $20 per group. Student entry fees are $5 student (Prelim-Grade2), and (Grade 3 and above) $10 student, to be paid to their teacher by the due date.
In addition to the three Awards above, additional awards are announced for each grade level.
Entries close Friday 8th August and must be emailed to Ruth Parsons.
For event enquiries, please contact Dominique Baker.
Dr Rae De Lisle will give a teacher workshop-seminar the day prior. Tickets for the recital may be purchased separately via the TMTA website.
DOWNLOAD THE 2025 GUIDELINES HERE
RAE DE LISLE
Dr Rae de Lisle, MNZM is one of New Zealand’s foremost piano pedagogues. Formerly Associate Professor and Head of Piano at the University of Auckland, she has produced many outstanding students, most notably John Chen, first prizewinner of the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition. Since then her students have won all the major piano competitions in New Zealand and have also been prizewinners internationally in the Lev Vlassenko Australasian Piano Competition, the Bradshaw and Buono Competition in New York, and the Perrenoud Foundation International Piano Competition.
Rae is Artistic Director of the Lewis Eady National Piano Competition and the Lewis Eady International Piano Festival. She is respected as as an adjudicator and has been on international competition juries which include the Dublin International Piano Competition and the Gina Bachauer International Junior and Young Artists Competition, as well as juries in Australia and Singapore. She is also an examiner for the New Zealand Music Examination Board.
Rae’s groundbreaking PhD research into focal dystonia, the most devastating of musician’s injuries, has resulted in specific concepts about instrumental retraining which has led to presentations and keynote speeches throughout the world. Her PhD has has received international recognition and is published by Paladinomedia.
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