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Teacher Resource Kits

Engaging Lesson Plans and Easy Online Access For Your Concerts

Our free Teacher Resource Kits are designed to help you explain and explore what your students see, hear and feel after your concerts.

Music appreciation and performing excellence begins in the classroom. Designed to spark creativity and inspiration, our 2023 Teacher Resource Kits offer lesson plans and activities that directly relate to your concerts.

These are free for all teachers and each commissioned kit includes:

• Detailed background information about key works
• New and engaging lesson plans and activities
• Listening guides and exploration notes
• Relevant excerpts from the scores for key works
• Easy online access to recordings for use during lessons.

All Teacher Resource Kits are created by professional music teachers and are designed to deliver targeted and adaptable pedagogical approaches relevant to specific educational stages.

Your 2023 Teacher Resource Kits will be available to download starting the first week of Term 1.

2022 Season Teaching Resources

Stages 1–4: Schools Concerts & Regional Tour

Music That Makes You Move
Show Us Your Moves!

Drop, pop and shuffle with Sydney Symphony musicians in a rip-roaring start to the new year. For this high energy one hour concert, we will explore lively musical rhythms that make you want to jump up and bust a move.

DOWNLOAD K-6 TEACHING RESOURCE KIT
DOWNLOAD YEARS 7-8 TEACHING RESOURCE KIT

Hear It, Feel It
How Composers Speak Through Music

Musical notes played individually may just be sounds – though artfully string them together in a sequence and they form colourful melodies that convey feelings of joy, sadness, fear and anger: basic emotions we all share. Discover how composers harness the power of music to describe our emotions and tell stories of being human.

DOWNLOAD K-6 TEACHING RESOURCE KIT
DOWNLOAD YEARS 7-8 TEACHING RESOURCE KIT

Stages 5 & 6: Meet the Music

MTM 1: POWER & PASSION
BRAHMS & TCHAIKOVSKY
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 2: INSPIRED
ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK PERFORMS RACHMANINOV 2
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No.1: DOWNLOAD KIT
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 3: BOLD & BRILLIANT
THE ITALIAN BAROQUE
Vivaldi Concerto for Four Violins: DOWNLOAD KIT
JF Rebel Les Élémens: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 4: SHINING BRIGHTLY
INSPIRED BY BACH
CPE Bach Symphony in A: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 5: CELEBRATING THE CONCERT HALL
SIMONE YOUNG & HILARY HAHN
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, Pathétique: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 7: TOWARDS SERENITY
DEBUSSY, COPLAND & VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Debussy La Mer: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 8: CELEBRATING MOZART
MOZART'S HAFFNER SERENADE
March in D, K.249: DOWNLOAD KIT

MTM 9: HEART TO HEART
DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT PERFORMS DVOŘÁK:
Dvořák Cello Concerto: DOWNLOAD KIT

Stages 5 & 6: Meet the Music Topic Areas

19th Century Music

• BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.1
• GRIEG Peer Gynt: Suite No.1
• TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6, Pathétique
• DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto

Music 1900 – 1945

• RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2
• DEBUSSY La mer

Classical Period

• CPE BACH Symphony in A Major
• MOZART Serenade No. 7, Haffner

Baroque Period

• VIVALDI Concerto for four violins
  
• JF REBEL Les élémens