Performing Arts News

2017 Music Camp

On Friday, 28th April, 50 students travelled to Urban Camp in Parkville for their annual music camp.

They got stuck into rehearsing straight away, depending on if they were in the choir, band, strings or our a’capella show choir.

Saturday began with yoga with Julia Williams before a day of intensive rehearsal. Students deserved a well earned break, walking to Lygon Street for dinner, before returning to Urban Camp for “MGC’s Got Talent” Quest.

And what talent was displayed, with 16 acts, featuring soloists, duets, trios and quartets! The evening culminated with Sarah Richards teaching everyone an indigenous dance and the band jamming. Students were still playing at 10.30 at night- what energy!

We had time for a final rehearsal on Sunday morning before parents and friends arrived for the concert at 11am.

Our a’capella choir opened the concert with their stunning rendition of “Muma Who Bore Me”, and a sneak peek of their work in progress, “Hide and Seek”.

Our Choir then sang “Colours of the Wind”, “Seasons of Love” and were accompanied by the strings for “The Water is Wide”, arranged by Wen Chin.

The strings then played Vivaldi’s “Autumn” and Tchaikovsky’s “Neopolitan Dance”.

Then it was over to the band for their performances of the Looney Tunes theme, Asturias, Albeniz and Across the Track Blues, featuring various students’ improvising.

We look forward to sharing the result of all their hard work at our Vocal Showcase on Tuesday, 27th June, and our String Soiree on Wednesday, 28th June. (Tickets via Trybooking)

Thank you to all our parents for their support and to all our wonderful students who were such a delight to work with.

A huge thank you to our music staff for giving up their weekend and for inspiring our music students:

Ellyce Calder, Wen Chin, Julia Williams & Tony Hicks.

We look forward to an even bigger and better Music Camp in 2018!

Regards,

Anne Corry

Generations of Jazz

Best of luck to our MGC Saxophone Quartet, Chantel Wong, Eva Palamara, Miranda Moloney and Jessie Radda, pictured here at Music Camp. They are all Year 10 students who will be competing at the national Generations of Jazz Festival in Mount Gambier, South Australia this weekend! A huge thank you to Patsy Moloney and Janet Stevens for enabling this to happen.

Congratulations to Jamila Jalloh for being selected for the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Accelerando Program. Jamila is a Year 10 student currently doing Year 11 Music, majoring in voice.

Thank you to the following students from our a’capella Show Choir who performed at MGC’s Year 7 Information Evening last Wednesday:

Katy Anderson, Layla Enriquez-Tsilfidis, Leoni Geschwandtner, Anya Hemley, Ruby Lund, Ophelia Murray, Ruby Ricci, Tanya Schnyder & Riley Stoffell.

Attention All Vocalists!

Want to be part of MCG’s Soul Band?

Andy Clarke, our guitar teacher, is running rehearsals on Monday and Wednesday lunchtimes for our MGC Soul Band in the Music Room.

Here is an example of some of the songs they have been rehearsing:

I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin

Love on Top - Beyoncé

1612 - Vulfpeck

Dance Night

Dance Night is coming up on the 18th and 19th of May at 6:30PM! Tickets have not been released as yet but will be available through Try Booking as of next week.

Dance Night is a ‘concert’ where the students involved in dance have the opportunity to perform their learnt and choreographed works for parents/family and friends.