The Open Talent Workshop


The Open Talent Workshop

The Open Talent Workshop

The Open Talent Workshop is a 5-day musical workshop run by the Talent Development Project and is open to singers and songwriters from the ages of 14 to 24 years. For over 20 years the TDP has been discovering and nurturing talented young musicians, many TDP graduates go on to have highly successful international careers.

The next workshop will run from the 12th – 16th January 2015 and the venue will be The Aspire Hotel, Ultimo.


Musical Director for the week is Francine Bell, arguably one of the most sought after vocal and motivational coaches in the country. Francine has starred in theatre, film, television, corporate videos and music clips. She has many international film credits including Superman Returns, The Matrix Revolutions and The Wilde Girls.has starred in theatre, films, television

The workshop will offer musicians from any music genre the opportunity to work with leading artists in group and one on one tuition in sessions including performance, song writing, styling, understanding repertoire, vocal technique and the importance of branding your style.


Celebrity photographer Scott Ehler will photograph each student and a final performance will be held at The Maritime Museum Performance space, which is open to the public.

Please book early as this workshop has strictly limited places.


A $100.00 deposit will secure your place, with payment in full on arrival on January 12th 2015.  

Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 17 December 2014.

Many now well-known artists have graduated from the TDP's core program, going on to highly-successful and rewarding careers. They all had to start somewhere and the TDP was the place for them. Just a few of our success stories are Human Nature (1992), The McClymonts (1998, 2002, 2004), Hi-5's Nathan Foley (1997), Felicity Urquhart (1993), Angus & Julia Stone (2002, 2005), and most notably winner of The Voice Australia 2014 Anja Nissen (2013).


All of these great musicians have a couple of things in common – they worked hard to get where they are today and all have taken the knowledge and experience they learned at the TDP with them, which has undoubtedly helped them in the pursuit of their dream.


Take a leaf out of their book and enrol for the TDP's next Open Talent Workshop by going to http://www.talentdevelopmentproject.org.au/forms/view.php?id=13160!and secure your place now! 

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