Music teachers - New Zealand - Wellington Region

Date: 1940 - 1950

By: Hornblow Print

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Staffan

Description: Includes three differently coloured copies of a flier and one card advertising Charles Staffan's School of Music, at 359 Adelaide Road Newtown, Wellington, where violin, piano and mandolin playing were taught. Staffan was also a piano tuner. Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, on card and paper, sizes varying around 200 x 130 mm. Provenance: Donated by Jan Staffan from the Staffan family papers, in 2009. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here..

Date: [ca 1880s or 1890s] and 1910-2012

By: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014

Reference: PA-Group-01022

Description: Photographs collected by, and relating to, Judith Clark and her family, taken between circa 1880 and circa 2012 by a range of photographers. The collection is mainly images of people, many of Judith Clark over the course of her lifetime, as well as friends, family, students, colleagues, and other people in the music world. The collection is in two distinct sets: family photographs, and photographs from her professional and social life. Many images show Judith Clark with her mother Ivy Clark (nee Martis). They also feature various extended Martis family members including Judith Clark's aunts, cousins, and maternal grandmother. One image shows Charles Suckling, Judith Clark's great grandfather. Photographs relating to Judith Clark's work as a piano teacher include images of her students and images relating to her work with The Institute of Registered Music Teachers (IMRT). She is also photographed with other musicians, with identified people including Michael Houstoun, Richard Mapp, Deidre Irons, Lili Krause, Douglas Lilburn, and Carlo Zecchi. Some images (prints and 35mm negatives) show Judith Clark being made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1998 for her significant contribution to music in New Zealand. Quarter plate negatives include images featuring Judith Clark as a child; she is pictured in costume and with two young boys. Negatives also show Ivy Clark, Dorothy Martis, unidentified women with houses and gardens, an unidentified woman at the beach with a camera around her neck, a view of a beach from high above, and a brick house with a circular window in the door. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Title supplied by Library Clark left New Zealand in 1955 to study music in London, Geneva, Paris, Salzburg, and Rome. She returned in 1963 to establish a private teaching practice in Wellington, was appointed lecturer in piano performance at Victoria University in 1976, and worked with the Society, later Institute, of Registered Music Teachers. Quantity: 364 colour original photographic print(s). 221 b&w original photographic print(s). 28 b&w original negative(s). 10 b&w copy photographic print(s). 5 album(s). 2 colour original negative(s) strips, with 7 images. 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints, negatives, and albums Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2337 - Photographs from the archive of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra were returned to that collection at Archives New Zealand. Photocopies of the images were kept at MS-Papers-12064..

Date: 1908-2014

By: Clark, Judith Ann, 1931-2014

Reference: MS-Group-2337

Description: Comprises papers of piano teacher Judith Clark. Includes both personal papers and material relating to her career as a music teacher. Personal papers include correspondence, appointment books, family history, and material relating to Clark's 80th birthday and retirement celebrations. Papers relating to her time spent studying at Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, and her career as a music teacher in Wellington, include teaching notebooks, correspondence, programmes for student concerts, and collected musical scores (some with autographs or annotations). Also includes a folder of certificates dated between 1908 and 1930 which were awarded to Hilda Elizabeth Howard. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Source of title - Supplied by Library Clark left New Zealand in 1955 to study music in London, Geneva, Paris, Salzburg and Rome. Returned in 1963 to establish a private teaching practice in Wellington, appointed lecturer in piano performance at Victoria University in 1976, and worked with the Society, later Institute, of Registered Music Teachers. Quantity: 44 folder(s). 4 volume(s). 5 compact disc(s). 0.75 Linear Metres. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Archive of New Zealand Music, transfers made from there - To Published Sound Collection - 1 video (PR-15-0021) - To Photographic Archive - Two wax boxes of photographs (PA-Group-01022).