The Arts News
Mark it on your calendar! Our annual MCC Arts Festival will be held on Friday 9th of September between 3.30pm and 7.00pm. There will be Music, Dance and Drama performances across several stages, an Art Trail featuring work by students from Kinder up to Year 10, food options, wine and nibbles, multimedia presentations, 'street performances’, samba drum processions, perhaps even a staff band performance, all occurring at various locations on the College grounds.
All students will have the chance to participate, either as performer, artist, designer, or at the very least, audience member supporting their peers! MCC Arts Festival is a chance to celebrate the artistic endeavours of all students, not just those who excel in a particular area. With this in mind, all parents and friends are warmly invited to come and support the students.
A draft performance schedule for Music, Dance and Drama items will be published in the coming weeks, and updates will be published on the MCC Facebook page to assist in planning your afternoon. All efforts will be made to schedule individual students around any pre-existing outside of school commitments that evening. If your child is unable to attend, please ensure that all relevant teachers who may have scheduled them in a performance is aware as soon as possible so that appropriate alternative arrangements can be made.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Dave McNamara - Head of Depaartment (The Arts)
This week, our Year 9/10 Drama class was excited to participate in a workshop with Rob Maxwell. Rob is a voice, dialect and acting teacher based in Sydney. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Voice from NIDA, and is an acting graduate of the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City. He also teaches voice courses at NIDA.
The class engaged in a range of activities and learnt some simple, yet effective, techniques to free the breath, and use nuance and resonance in order to strengthen and enrich their voices.
To conclude, Rob offered some feedback on the current class task - writing and performing a script for young children. it was a relaxed, fun and engaging session which was enjoyed by everyone.
Hayley Stevens - Drama Teacher
Our New Music Tuition Teachers in 2022
Lisa Crosato - Voice and Contemporary Piano
PG Dip Opera - Royal Academy of Music
B.Comm
Lisa Crosato is a music teacher with more than 30 years of experience as a performer in both opera and musical theatre, both in Australia and overseas.
Having started singing lessons herself at the age of 7, she understands the need to provide a fun and nurturing environment for young singers to learn and develop a safe way to sing.
She provides vocal tuition; exam preparation; vocal coaching; and performance technique, as well as piano and music theory tuition.
David Keating – Classical Guitar
BMus, MMus Classical Guitar
Irish Guitarist David Keating is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, where he studied with the acclaimed guitarist Craig Ogden, and was awarded a First Class Honours MMus Degree in classical guitar performance.
He has won many music prizes in Ireland including the John Vallery Memorial Prize in the Irish Freemasons Young Musician of the Year Competition, the CSM Senior Recital Competition (adjudicated by Alan Smale - Former Leader of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra), and the Feis Ceoil Cup and Gold Medal for Classical Guitar Performance.
Laura Jones – Trumpet
We welcome Laura Jones to the Music Tuition team. Laura is an experienced trumpet player and teacher. She has played with the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Her awards include: the 2020 Griffith Future Scholarship Recipient, 2019 Friends of the Conservatorium Travel Bursary and the 2019 Beta Sigma Brass Prize (QCGU).
Dorothy Lincoln - Music Tuition Coordinator