Performing Arts

Guitar and Drum Soiree

Thursday 9th November was our final guitar and drum soiree for the year, featuring Andy Clarke’s guitar students, Nicholas Milosevic’s Drums students and our Junior and Senior Rock Bands, who performed “Get Him Back” and “Erase Me” respectively.

A highlight of the evening was seeing 30+ guitarists onstage playing “Act Natural” with Senior Rock Band! Another highlight was our four year 7 drummers on four individual drum kits perform with our bass guitar students, the iconic “7 Nation Army”. A special shout out to Grace McLaughlan for their guest appearance, drumming for their band’s performance and also a solo of Twenty One Pilot’s “Ode to Sleep”.

Thank you to our two year 12 students, Weijia Zhang, who opened the evening performing The Cat Empire’s “Kila” from their year 12 Music drum recital program, and to Milla Maccarone, who closed the night with their group performance of “Dani California”.

It was a great night with a huge variety of acoustic and electric numbers, with some vocals and individual solos, as well as some iconic drumming to classics by ACDC, Green Day, Nirvana and Blink 182.

Congratulations to the following students:

Junior Rock Band: Mia Haslem (Keys)  Sophie Nisiforou (Guitar), Violet Furness,  Bronte Cranshaw & Rosie Gerner (Vocals) and Trev Higgins (Drums)

Senior Rock Band: Audrey Ahmed (Vocals) Cherry Goa (Drums) Juliette Haslem (Keys) Gen Chia (Guitar) and Nandini Vyas (Guitar)

Guitar: 

Nia Escano, Mackenzie Loch, Alexandra Henderson, Amy Chan, Belinda Edgar, Anouk Smart, Ana Phan, Ava Duke, Mila Costa (and vocals) who performed “Begin Again”. Mila also performed a solo of Gracie Abrams’ “Mess it Up”.

 Saskia Crumpler-Whan, Helen Zhao, Matilda Scrimshaw & Hrisita Haldar who performed “Rhianon”.

 Sophie Richmond, Eli Rampono-Kelly, & Swathy Nair who performed “Heart of Life”.

 Miri Chi, who performed a solo of “My Favourite Things”.

Francesca Hackwood, Rita Rashid & Indigo Ernst who performed Love Cats” on bass guitar.

Elsie Falkiner and Xanthe Bowden who performed “Defender”.

Emily Phan, Faustene Caguiat and Jollie Tong who performed “You Can Close Your Eyes”.

Zoe Tucker and Sophie Nisiforou who performed “Brazil”.

Soloists Indi Lewis who performed “Classical Gas” and Ananya Baskin who performed “One Note Samba”.

Nandini Vyas, Gen Chia, Milla Maccarone & Sophie Nisiforou who performed “Dani California”.

Drums:

Cherry Gao who performed “Oakland Drive”.

Katherine Tanudjaja who performed “All the Small Things”

Sammi Sastradipradja-Pollack who performed “Come As You Are”.

Year 7’s: Daganda Hagen, Ziggy Crumpler-Whan, Willow Gaylard & Harriet Hopper.

Kira Jenkins who performed “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and Archie Hulls who performed “Highway To Hell”.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended and to Nick and Andy and a special shout out to Andy for all his additional work running our Junior and Senior Rock bands.

Anne Corry

Instrumental Music.

Year 9 Music Evening

Congratulations to our Year 9 Music students who performed for family and friends on Monday, 13th November as a culmination of their semester studies:

 “Stay”-Rhianna

Ayla Garret (Bass) Alyssa Blair (Piano)  & Annie Sadler (Vocals)

 “1,000 Years”

Ava Joel-Pitcher(Vocals) Tejaswi Talla (Piano) & Giselle Scott (Guitar & Vocals)

Izzy Hall- “TV”

 “Perfect”- Ed Sheeran

Chiara Virtuoso (Flute) Georgia Karanos (Piano) &Ruby Francis (Vocals) 

Mimi Kirsner-Reuten -“Positively Inconvenient” (original song!)

 “Young and Beautiful”- Lana del Ray

Chloe Kalabun (Piano) Viv Dang & Alita Aiju (Vocals) & Anoushka Basu (Guitar)

Addy Webber- “My Time”

 “Falling Slowly”

Izzy Hall & Mimi Kirsner-Reuten (Vocals) & Elsie Falkiner (Vocals and Guitar)

Indi Lewis- Own Composition

 “All Too Well”-Taylor Swift

Addy Webber (Piano), Rosie Gerner (Vocals) Ananya Baskin (Drums)

“The Perfect Pair”-Beebadoobee

Domi Spataro (Vocals) Lily Brown (Bass) Mila Narayan (Piano & Vocals) & Indi Lewis (Guitar)

Anne Corry

Year 9 Music

Senior Singer Songwriter Showcase

To celebrate the end of Headstart, we were treated to a beautiful showcase of our extraordinary talented singer song writers on Friday, 24th November at lunchtime.

Audrey Ahmed from Year 10 performed “Hot Milk”, accompanying herself on the ukulele.

Then Irene Pham, Year 11, sang “The Lucid Dream” to her own backing track which she had created.

Juliette Haslem, Year 10,  then performed “How It Ends”, accompanying herself on the guitar.

Then Violet Peake (Year 11) performed another of her original songs, “All I Needed”, also accompanying herself on the guitar.

Indi Lewis (Year 9) performed another of her original songs, “Maybe It’s Just Me”, before heading off to the recording studio next week.

Thank you to all our talented singer-songwriters for sharing their original songs with us.

Anne Corry

Year 9, 10 & 11 Music.

Presentation Night 

Thank you to our following students who performed so beautifully at Presentation Night on Tuesday, 21st November, for our VIPS, pre-show entertainment and during the evening:

Senior Strings, led by Evie Scott:  Adelaide Aheran, Irene Tetaz and Evie Scott.

Junior Rock Band: Xanthe Bowden, Bronte Cranshaw, Violet Furness, Mia Haslem, Sophie Nisiforou, Ariella Pike- Meyer, Zoe Tucker & Trev Higgins.

Senior Rock Band: Audrey Ahmed, Gen Chia, Elsie Falkiner, Juliette Haslem, Indi Lewis, Nandini Vyas, Emily Cormack.

Jazz Band & Orchestra: Adelaide Ahearn, Lucinda Buckle, Jasmine Buckle, Rania Courtney, Leo Creaney, Viv Dang, Chloe Dupleux, Abby England, Alia Fritschy-O’Connor, Eva Harasymiw, Trinity Harris, Elita Hemley, Trev Higgins, Gaia Hui, Leanne Leong, Victoria Lieu, Yolanda Liu, Mairin Lloyd, Jolly Mehta, Talia Meiri, Anja Paine, Maddy Parker, Emily Pilepich, Alina Rudd-Hansen, Evie Scott, Imogen Scott-Young, Chiara Virtuoso, Sienna Virtuoso, Freya Swannell, Jinx Taylor- Moore, Irene Tetaz, Isabella Ward, Sammy Webber and Kinu Wright.

A’Capella Choir: Audrey Ahmed, Pip Castaldo, Isla Cavin, Viv Dang, Issy Edmondson, Elsie Falkiner, Abigail Grigg, Izzy Hall, Olivia Hall, Anna Issac, Mimi Kirsner-Reuten, Irene Pham & Gem.

Thank you to our Year 12 Band Captains, Evie Scott and Talia Meiri for their final performance at MGC and to Meg Chapman and Sophie Moutray-Read who reprised “Hopelessly Devoted” for our Grease tribute. Thank you to Lucinda Buckle for the accompanying photo montage.

A huge thank you to our ensemble leaders for their tireless efforts throughout 2023.

Andy Clarke (Junior and Senior Rock Band)

Tony Hicks (Jazz Band and Orchestra)

Susan de Jong (A’Capella Choir)

Instrumental Music 2024

Thank you to all our instrumental students and parents for their support this year. Please find a link to our re-enrolment form to continue lessons in 2024.

If you would like to learn a musical instrument at MGC in 2024,  please complete the new enrolment form.

A huge thank you to our instrumental music teachers for 2023:

• Katrina Halliday (Piano)
• Wayne Joiner (Piano)
• Susan de Jong (Voice)
• Ellyce Calder (Voice)
• Belinda Foster (Voice)
• Andy Clarke (Guitar)
• Tony Hicks (Woodwind and Brass)
• Les Gyori (Violin)
• Keely Moggach (Violin)
• Lore Burns (Cello)
• Nicholas Milosevic (Drums)

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ellyce Calder to the position of Instrumental Music Co-ordinator for 2024.

Have a magical, musical Christmas.

Regards,

Anne Corry

Signing off as Instrumental Music Co-ordinator for 2023.

“Grandma’s Secret Tail” Presented by 7 Melba 1 

Thank you to everyone who attended our performance of “Grandma’s Secret Tail”, the story of a Mermaid. 

This was the final year 7 performance for 2023. Last semester the theme of The Decades was explored. This semester each of the five remaining forms explored a different mythical creature.  

Over the last few weeks, we have seen stories created and developed into fantastic pieces of theatre around creatures such as The Loch Ness Monster, Dragons, Big Foot and Unicorns. Our topic allocated to us several weeks ago is Mermaids.  

Creating a finished play from quite literally nothing was difficult. But these challenges spurred our growth and formed stronger bonds throughout the class community. 

Over this term, we have worked hard with choreography, script writing, costume planning and constructions, along with music development and multi-media to create a performance we hoped our audience would enjoy.  

by Yolanda and Miri 

7 Melba 1.