Here is the latest schedule for ANBOC2012. It is shaping up to be one of the best conferences and professional development opportunities that we have seen in a long time. To register for the conference, click in the menu bar above.

Wednesday 4 July

8.00am-6.00pm — Delegate Band rehearsal with Professor Craig Kirchhoff

Thursday 5 July
8.00am-12.00pm — Delegate Band rehearsal with Professor Craig Kirchhoff
1.00pm – Registration
2.00pm – Welcome and Mini-Keynotes: Professor Craig Kirchhoff, Dr Richard Miles and Dr Joanne Erwin
3.30pm – Afternoon break
4.00pm – Jodie Blackshaw I
Andrew Butt
Dr Peter Morris I
Monte Mumford I
Delegate Band rehearsal
5.15pm – Break
6.00pm – Concert I: ANBOC2012 Delegate Band – Craig Kirchhoff, conductor
Including World Premiere of “Belah Sun Woman” by Jodie Blackshaw
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Day Rates now available. Student Rates now available. Early Bird Closing Soon!

ABODA QLD is host­ing the Australian National Band and Orchestra Conference in 2012 (ANBOC2012). Plan­ning is well under­way for this major con­fer­ence which is being held from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 July 2012 at the Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane. The pro­gram is designed for school and com­munity band and orches­tra dir­ect­ors of all levels and will include con­duct­ing mas­ter classes, for­ums to explore rep­er­toire, rehearsal tech­niques, instru­ment ped­agogy and addi­tional oppor­tun­it­ies to dis­cover the latest in music technology. The conference will be led by international and Australian clinicians including Craig Kirchhoff (University of Minnesota), Richard Miles (Morehead State University and editor of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band books) and Joanne Irwin (Oberlin Conservatory). There will also be performances by some of the countries lead­ing ensembles including the Elder Conservatorium Wind Symphony and the Queensland Wind Orchestra.