Instrumental Music
Presentation Night
A huge thank you to Tony Hicks and our students in Jazz band and Orchestra who performed so beautifully to open our 30th Presentation Night celebrations on Tuesday, 26th November, culminating in a homage to The Sound of Music. A special shout out to Audrey Ahmed (Cast 1 Mother Abbess) for singing and to Nora Dandurand for creating the accompanying video of photos. Thank you to our Year 12’s who came back from ‘schoolies’ to perform: Adelaide Ahearn, Alia Fritschy-O’Connor, Elita Hemley and Leanne Leong.
String Soiree
Congratulations to all our string students who performed at our final String Soiree on Tuesday, 19th November:
Suri Ajai Kurian, Maia Fornello, Nikita Coseski, Lizzie Wee, Anja Paine, Max Cooper, Charlotte Hume, Vida Scalmer, Cecilia Nahm, Emily Pilepich, Char Martin & Milly Bainbridge. Highlights of the evening included Lore Burns’ arrangement of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” for our cello students, Gaia Hui’s solo of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in G minor, 1st Movement, and Wulfsbaine Raven’s Violin solo of Mozart’s Violin Concerto # 3 in G major, 1st Movement, both accompanied by our talented string teachers playing the orchestral parts. The evening concluded with our string ensemble performing “Laputa” by Joe Hisaishi and Vivaldi’s Baroque Concerto. Thank you to all our String Ensemble students for all their work throughout the year, rehearsing every Tuesday lunchtime, led by Les Gyori and Lore Burns.
String Ensemble: Milly Bainbridge, Jane Chow, Gaia Hui, Yolanda Liu, Char Martin, Cecilia Nahm, Wulsbaine Raven, Vida Scalmer & Stella Setiawan.
Thank you to all parents and friends for their support and to our String teachers: Les Gyori, Keely Moggach and Lore Burns.
2025 Music Lessons
We are now accepting expressions of interest for instrumental music lesson for 2025! Payments will be due early term 1 next year. Please fill out the relevant form for either new or continuing students to confirm your place in the program, spaces are limited due to teacher availability:
Music lessons form for continuing students (eg already currently enrolled)
Music lessons form for new students (eg have not had lessons at MGC before)
Term 4 Soirees
Congratulations to everyone involved in our final Instrumental Music Soirees of the year. Thank you to our wonderful string teachers Les Gyori (violin and viola), Keely Moggach (violin), and Lore Burns (cello) for all their hard work in preparing their students for the String Soiree on 19 November. Students and teachers came together to share a beautiful program of music.
Thank you to Andy Clarke (guitar) and Nick Milosevic (drums) for running preparing and performing with their students in the Guitar and Drum Soiree on 28 November. We were treated to a high energy concert with a wide range of genres of music, complete with a whole group finale.
Finally thank you to our piano teachers Karen Doyle, Belinda Foster, and Hayden Dun for the final soiree of the year, our postponed piano soiree. Our piano students were excited to share their beautiful music they have been working hard on this semester.
Thank you for your support this year at all the music concerts, and we are looking forward to seeing you all next year!
Ellyce Calder
Instrumental Music Leader