Brendon Siemsen
Brendon is a very experienced classroom music teacher and guitar teacher. With over twenty years experience as a classroom music teacher, tutor and over thirty years experience as a guitar teacher.
Teaching and mentoring students from Primary school, High School, Tertiary level and beyond. He has been a state music examiner for pre tertiary grades 11 and 12 students and a guitar and ensemble teacher at the University of Tasmania.
His studies have included, but not limited to; composition, music and education, jazz arranging, musicology, sight reading, improvisation, classical theory, conducting, curriculum development, contemporary music, jazz guitar, improvisation concepts, Latin guitar, blues and rock guitar, odd meters, funk, Jazz theory, Advanced harmonic concepts.
Brendon has been the recipient of many Arts grants for recording, further study and performing.
Brendon has as Bachelor’s Degree in Music, Associate Diploma of Music, a Bachelor of Education and has studied at the renowned Musicians Institute in Hollywood USA, Berklee College of Music,Boston USA and privately with some of the world’s leading jazz and fusion players such as John Abercrombie, Pat Martino, Scott Henderson, Joe Diorio, Jeff Richman and Ron Eschete.
Brendon has been working as a professional guitarist for 30 years. He has had around 5000 live performance credits in all genres of music. Career highlights include MONA FOMA 2019, 2O20 and a regular performer at Paris Cat Jazz club in Melbourne 2018-2020. Brendon has been a force of energy in music education. This includes a 23-year career as a music teacher in Tasmanian Colleges. He was a guitar tutor and ensemble director in Contemporary Music – University of Tasmania 2004-2005.
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