MUSIC NEWS

HOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL

The House Music Festival took place on Wednesday 11 March at 7pm in the School Hall. This has been the major focus of the students throughout this term, with rehearsals taking place before school, after school and during lunchtime every day since the beginning of February. The level of support for the students was amazing, as was the standard.

Thank you to our judges Ms Emily Bowman and Ms Jessica Earle for their enthusiastic deliberations. A huge thank you to Ms Katarina Vrisk for her fantastic organisation of this event.

Congratulations to all the House Captains for their amazing work throughout the term and on the night. Whilst there could only be one winner, we are incredibly impressed with the standard that was brought to the night. Congratulations to Flynn for their incredible win for 2020.

TOP CLASS PERFORMANCES

On Friday 13 March all VCE Music students went to Top Class Performances held at the Recital Centre. This performance was of the previous years highest achieving students in Music Performance, Music Investigation and VET music studies. It was fantastic that our current students were able to celebrate the amazing performances of last year's students Orr Zaacks (Music Performance Solo - Recorder) and Betty Wang (Music Investigation) who were selected to perform for this prestigious occasion. Thank you to Mr Baltazar Kurowski for his organisation of this excursion and to Ms Bernadette Russo who accompanied them.

TAKE INSTRUMENTS HOME

In preparation for the holidays and the likelihood of school closures, it is important that all instrumental students take their instruments home and use the opportunity to really spend time practicing. Teachers will be providing work for students to continue on with during this time.

For beginning students, you should be aiming to work on playing for about 15 minutes a day. If there are concerns about how long to practice etc, please do not hesitate in contacting your instrumental teacher for advice.

Wishing you all well over the next few weeks.

Megan Papworth

Head of Music