Senior School Performing Arts

Music Camp

Friday 25 March to Sunday 27 March

Music Camp will be held at School from Friday 25 March to Sunday 27 March 2022. Students will attend camp at school each day.  Music Camp runs outside Camps Week, which means that all students will then be able to participate in regular Camps Week activities. All students in Orchestra, Concert Band, Chamber Strings and Stage Band will be expected to participate in Music camp during these dates. This is an exciting opportunity to get to know other musicians, have lots of fun and learn great repertoire for the year! Further information regarding Music Camp will be emailed to families this week.

Camerata Competition: Applications now open!

Senior School Music Students who are AMEB Grade 4 or equivalent and above are encouraged to enter this year’s Camerata Competition, held on Friday 18 March, in room 68. External adjudicators will oversee both the Junior and Senior divisions of the competition. Camerata provides our students with performance practice and the opportunity to benefit from feedback given by an expert panel.

All students who participate in the Camerata Competition are also encouraged to perform at the Camerata Concert in the DPA on Friday evening, 6 May, 2022.

For further information and to enter, please follow this link to our sign-up form: https://forms.office.com/r/4NeX7VdWw2

Kinross Wolaroi Students in Orange Symphony Orchestra Concert

Congratulations to Isabel Wong (violin), Stephanie Wong (violin), Harriet Ringbauer (viola) and Max Bloomfield (percussion) who recently performed with the Orange Symphony Orchestra, alongside teaching staff Mrs Lorraine Moxey and Mrs Katie Sinclair. A number of instrumental tutors also played with the OSO – cellist Stephanie Li, violinists Angela D'Elia and Emily Thorburn, flutist David Shaw, French horn player Victoria Chatterley and oboeist Laith Ismail. The performance, held at Orange Civic Theatre, included works by Mendelsohn, Beethoven, Mozart and Australian composer Noel Annett. Raising money for Orange Palliative Care.

Year 7 Music 

Music Empowers Children Spectacularly - Australian Music Educator, Richard Gill O.A.M

Be it a country boarder new to our school, or a child who has been at Kinross since Kindergarten, our Music teachers are so proud of all their Year 7 music students. In just four weeks Year 7 children have been singing, drumming, listening and learning to play keyboard with two-hands. Furthermore, they have just started the creative process of composing their own music and writing this down via traditional and modern notation methods. Many children have taken up learning to play instruments though our private tuition program and have made new friends by joining one of the Performing Arts Department’s Co-Curricular Music ensembles. Research in neuroscience indicates that children who make music together demonstrate higher levels of wellbeing and develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. To enrol your child in private tuition on an instrument or voice please click here.

Mrs Phillipa Waters