Teaching
I love to teach music as a living, creative art form. I'm able to give lessons on composition & alto saxophone.
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Composition lessons engage with current developments in music around the world at a high level, suitable if you’d like to challenge yourself to incorporate new ideas into your songwriting or composition, or if you or your child would like to learn to make music in a way that encourages you to explore your own voice.

Topics can include:
  • Modern, contemporary & experimental composition techniques, forms & materials
  • Analysis of modern, contemporary & experimental music
  • Electronic music techniques (DAW, synthesis, processing, software programming in Max/MSP, networking, recording & mixing)
  • Composer-performer concepts
  • Improvisation
  • Field recording
  • Tuning systems
  • Re-imagining your instrument(s)
  • Musical & professional life (arts management, grant-writing, touring etc.)
  • Engagement with alternative, marginalised or buried histories or bodies of work

This can be coupled with more conventional approaches to ear training, harmony & counterpoint, voice-leading, orchestration, etcetera.

I charge $80/hour. The rate is negotiable for those experiencing financial hardship or structural disadvantages.
Contact
 ​Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. My email address is jostenmyburgh [at] protonmail [dot] com.
Qualifications & Experience
I received my Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours in 2015, specialising in Composition & Music Technology. I have a current WWC and Police Clearance.
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Other training & experience: Workshops and intensives with Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger, Australian Art Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Francisco Lopez, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Pierluigi Billone, Richard Barrett, Speak Percussion, Radu Malfatti, Kira O'Reilly, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Alessandro Bosetti, Will Guthrie.

Professional experience for projects as part of Perth Festival, Fremantle Biennale, Supersense Festival of the Ecstatic, and Perth International Jazz Festival, and at venues such as Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart), amongst many others. Multiple national and international tours both solo and in collaborative projects including contemporary dance productions, concert music and improvised music. Releases on labels of significance within the disciplines of contemporary art music and experimental improvised music such as Another Timbre (UK) and Flaming Pines (UK).

​Awardee of the Schenberg Fellowship and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.