Welcome to the Carmel College Music Department Site
Music Lessons
Please make sure you SIGN UP for lessons by completing the registration form.
Lesson timetables will be emailed home and posted on the Music Department Noticeboard outside the practice rooms.
Please make sure you join the Google Classroom page for your instrument to keep up to date with any news and timetable changes. The code is on the timetable.
You will be given a lesson pass to excuse you from class.
If you need a music locker to store your instrument (for instruments larger than a clarinet), download and print off the Music Locker Contract, and return it to the Music Department.
To register online for Music Tuition in 2026 please click HERE. Regisitrations will open at the end of January for the year ahead - look out in the school Newsletter for the link and information.
The Music Department encourages students to widen their horizons by learning a musical instrument or training their voice. The discipline, team spirit and pleasure both given and received are obvious benefits from being involved in musical activities.
Carmel’s musicians are able to take their skills beyond the music lesson and meet together in all manner of music groups from choirs to orchestras and chamber, jazz and Barbershop groups to rock bands. The standard of performance achieved by pupils here is evidence enough that this work is invaluable both educationally and socially.
Tuition is offered in the following instruments: voice, violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, French horn, guitar, bass guitar and drum kit.
The HOD Music monitors and guarantees standards and any concerns should be directed to her as well as to the teacher concerned.
Fees are charged at $140.00 per year – fees will be billed to your school account.
Lessons are on a weekly basis during school hours and unattended lessons will be charged for.
It is expected that the student will learn for a full year but in the event that tuition is terminated four weeks’ notice is required. Notification should be sent to the HOD Music (hbarker@carmel.school.nz) and the teacher concerned.
Timetables are posted on the Music Department notice board, students can also check their times on the Music Department Site.
Students require their own instruments for their lessons except for double bass and drum kit. The school has a very limited number of orchestral instruments for hire at a fee of $150.00 per year. These include trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon and flute. Please collect a hire form from the Music Department. Students wishing to hire over the summer school holidays will be charged an additional $40. Information can also be supplied about hiring instruments from local suppliers.
Current Music Groups available, click here for more information on each group
Senior Choir (Carmelites)
Carmini (Carmel and Rosmini Combined Choir)
Carmel College Itinerant Music Tuition Staff
Ms Hayley Barker BMus (Jazz), GradDipTchg – HOD Music, Jazz Band, Liturgy Band
Ms Pene Brawn-Douglas BA Dip Tchg – Flute
Mrs Beverley Brockelbank BMus LTCL Dip Tchg – Oboe, Bassoon, Orchestra
Mrs Julia Cornfield LTCL GTCM (Hons) – Clarinet, Saxophone
Mr Robert Howell – Choir Director, Piano, Singing
Ms Maya Koster - Guitar, Bass
Mr Robert Lovie - Violin, Viola
Mr Mark Pinto De Menezes – Drums
Mrs Kate Webber – Singing
