Michelle Flint wins KBB Midwest Clinic Scholarship
Michelle Flint – teacher at St Paul’s Collegiate School – wins KBB Midwest Clinic Scholarship to attend the Annual International Band and Orchestra Festival Clinic in Chicago Illinois in December.
The KBB Music Midwest Scholarship is a professional development opportunity open to all teachers and directors of concert bands and orchestras in New Zealand. Strongest consideration for the scholarship is given to those whose attendance is likely to create the greatest benefit to Youth Music in New Zealand. This year KBB Music has announced that Michelle Flint, Director of Instrumental Music at St Paul’s Collegiate, is the lucky recipient. The selection panel had whittled the applicants down to three possibilities and Michelle’s application came out as the clear winner.
For over 60 years the Midwest Clinic has helped and inspired music educators in better pursuing their profession and it attracts some of the best music clinicians and groups from around the world. The conference is the largest of its kind and ‘exists’, exclusively, for educational purposes. It is a unique professional development opportunity for music teachers and directors of bands and orchestras around the world. The purpose of the clinic is to raise standards of music education, develop new teaching techniques, examine, analyse and appraise literature dealing with music and encourage teachers and directors to hold clinics, lectures and demonstrations for the ‘betterment’ of music education.
