Music Update

Castlemaine Secondary College Musician of the Year Award 2018

Attention all Music students.....

In recognition of the Castlemaine Secondary College’s commitment to maintaining a high standard of musical performance and to fostering musical potential, the music faculty is once again offering an award for Musician of the Year.

The Award will be given on two criteria:

1. A solo performance presented on Wednesday, 31st October at 7.00 p.m. in the Performers' Precinct Foyer. Two contrasting pieces must be presented with a time limit of not more than 10 minutes.
2. The student’s commitment to the musical life of the college.

The winner will have their name placed on an honour roll and receive a medal on the night.  Two distinguished performers will also be awarded medals.  The Musician of the Year will be presented with a cheque for $150 at the CSC Awards Night, and $100 each for two distinguished performers.

This year’s adjudicator is David Chisholm. David has an international practice defined through diverse and hybrid collaboration for which he has won six Green Room Awards, a French Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Award, a Highly Commended Paul Lowin Prize, a Mention at 36th Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Electronic Art, a Special Mention in the X Media Forum, 31st International Film Festival in Moscow, the Medibank Private State and National Arts Awards and The National Young Achiever of the Year.

From 2003 to 2006 he taught genre theory at Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts. He has presented seminars on his music in Australia, France, Ireland and Italy. David has undertaken multiple artist residencies in Australia, France and the USA and in 2017 was an Australia Council for the Arts Composer in Residence at HIAP in Helsinki, Finland. David teaches Music Composition and Cultural Studies at Monash University and recently completed his PhD at Melbourne University. David is based between Santiago, Chile, and Bendigo, Australia where he is the founding Artistic Director of the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music.

Kirsten Boerema

Music Coordinator

Spring Recital

A lovely afternoon was had by all at our annual Spring Recital held at the Uniting Church on the 9th of September. We were entertained by a wide variety of items presented by our senior students.