Music Heartland Project
Musically gifted and talented children from Otago schools travelled similar pathways, bonding across schools and responding with enormous enthusiasm to the Music Heartland Project and being part of an active and informed musical community.
In addition, diverse models of excellence generated wide and positive acceptance of what it is to be musical for the children.
The Music Heartland Project received funding from the contestable Talent Development Initiative Funding Pool for 2003–2005. The supporting elements in the realisation of children's musical potential were:
- the enthusiasm, commitment and music facilitation skills of the tutors, who were freelance music specialist teachers and local musicians
- the goodwill and energy of school management teams and liaison teachers across eight South Dunedin schools
- quality music leadership, a gifted and talented theory base, and administrative services provided by Queens High School and the Dunedin College of Education
- the classroom music equipment and other instrumental resources made available by the wider Dunedin community.