Music & Drama

Music - VCE students last recital

CSC Strings and Resonance String Orchestra -CSC string students have had a busy Term!

Highlights have been:

CSC VCE soloist Sally Freeman Smith entertaining the crowds at Castlemaine Community Lunch on September 13. We anticipate our year 10 Steiner Strings will be making an appearance performing a selection of gorgeous Telemann works in October.
Rehearsing weekly in Du Pre and Kreisler Strings, and in the newly formed CSC Symphony Orchestra!
Working hard towards Term 4 events, including the CSC Summer Concert and a workshop with Bendigo South East Secondary College students.
Under the Resonance String Orchestra partnership:

CSC string students Will Marney, Orvokki Britton and Thomasina Challender, with Resonance member Jane Dimsey and string tutors Libby and Heather, presented a music/art collaborative incursion at Chewton PS and performed in a Flashmob at The Mill.
Orvokki and Thomasina have taken part in a tutored quartet program with Flinders Quartet’s Zoe Knighton and Orvokki interviewed Zoe as part of her year 10 World of Work Unit. You can read the interview here: https://www.resonancestringorchestra.org.au/membernews
Heather and Libby’s group Castlemaine Chamber Players have a concert in the holidays – all welcome! https://castlemainechamberplayers.com/category/next-concerts/

Well done, everyone!

Heather Cummins and Libby Anderson, string tutors

DEEP TIME

Don’t miss the Resonance String Orchestra concert: Resonance String Orchestra will be back on the stage of Castlemaine Town Hall to present “Deep Time”, a profound musical feast for Mount Alexander Shire audiences, on Sunday 16 October at 3pm. Resonance is a vibrant community music institution with branches in Castlemaine and Woodend that combine to present performances as a full-bodied 50 piece string orchestra. Co-Artistic Director Heather Cummins says the Deep Time event will embody the Resonance Vision: “empowering regional communities to make great music”.

“Deep Time - a musical exploration of microbes, seasons, planets, humanity and beyond” will see Resonance traverse diverse terrain, including Vivaldi's "Spring" concerto (from the Four Seasons) with CSC soloist Thomasina Challender, the beloved Adagio from the ballet Spartacus by Khachaturian and a compelling string orchestra arrangement of Holst's "Mars" (The Planets Suite).

Also featured in the concerts will be the newly formed string quartets of the Woodend and Castlemaine Resonance branches, playing works by Mendelssohn and Nardini. These will be the debut performances for these quartets, which have been tutored by Resonance Artistic Patron Zoe Knighton under a partnership between Resonance and the acclaimed Flinders Quartet.

Castlemaine Town Hall

October 16th 3pm

Tickets: $25/$15/$60

Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/CCQDO

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