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About Soundhouse®

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Soundhouse® is about music, students and teachers.

Soundhouse® Music Alliance oversees and promotes multi-media, music making and education for teachers and students. Its contemporary focus engages those interested in modern music-making. Each Soundhouse® enhances the curriculum of a school and provides a learning opportunity that is respected and admired. Soundhouse® facilities are specially equipped classrooms where students and teachers can learn, explore and experiment with their own music-making. Soundhouse® has individual studios equipped with modern multi-media equipment and digital technology enabling experienced and novice musicians to create their own composition or learn from prepared recordings. The Soundhouse® Music Alliance is a Registered Charitable Foundation.

Soundhouse® Mission Statement

Soundhouse® actively encourages and facilitates integrated music-making and technology in schools.

Soundhouse® History

The first Soundhouse® was established in 1986 at the Victorian Arts Centre and was the brainchild of the Brash Foundation.

The founders, Geoff Brash, AM and Martin Carlson, OAM, saw the potential for young people to integrate their music with emerging technologies.

Since the beginning, successful ventures and partnerships enabled new Soundhouse® facilities to be established. The first were in Victoria but soon afterwards, other Soundhouse® facilities were created interstate and overseas.

In 2010 a committed Board of Directors continues to focus on ensuring modern music making is a lively component of the modern educational landscape.

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Soundhouse Patron, John Foreman

Soundhouse® Patron, John Foreman

John Foreman is a musical director, pianist and composer, plus is a well recognised face on Australian television.

John wrote The Flame, which was performed by Tina Arena and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening 

Ceremony. His compositions have also been performed by artists such as 

Vanessa Amorosi and Jose Carreras.

After many years tickling Bert Newton’s ivories on Good Morning Australia, John joined Australian Idol as musical director in 2003. He’s musical director and producer for Vision Australia’s Carols by Candlelight® and the TV Week Logie Awards, and an occasional contributor to the Nine Network’s 20 to 1. He hosted The Big Night In with John Foreman, and a Ten Network special, John Foreman Presents Burt Bacharach, which featured Bacharach performing live and being interviewed by John.

John has also worked with Chris Isaak, Reba McEntire, Joe Williams, James Galway and Shirley Bassey.

He’s also a jazz pianist. He has performed at jazz festivals in Montreal, Canada, Santa Barbara, USA and jazz venues in London. 

He’s also the ambassador for Music. Count Us In, an initiative of the Australian Music Council, to encourage music education in schools, and he hosts the annual School Spectacular on ABC television. 
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