MUSIC NEWS
EXAMS
It has been an incredibly busy lead up to the end of term. We wish all the Music Performance and Investigation students well in their preparation for their performance exams that start the first week back in Term 4.
CLAREMONT TERRACE PERFORMANCE
Congratulations to the Year 9 Music class who performed at Claremont Terrace on Friday 14 September. It is great community involvement and a fantastic way to start your performance experience as a soloist and as part of a small group.
BIG BAND BASH
An amazing night was held at a fundraiser for the 2019 US Music tour on Friday 14 September. Performances by the Junior Stage Band, Intermediate Stage Band and Senior Stage Band were also joined by Senior Singers and two student groups – Yael Zamir, Jonathan Fletcher, Joshua Sacks and Andy Zhang; Chloe James, Isabella Eikelis and Elizabeth Lanaras.
SENIOR SPRING SOIREE
Sunday 16 September was fantastic weather wise and also fantastic music wise. Congratulations to the Orchestra, Chamber Strings and the Senior Brass group who performed at the Senior Spring Soiree in the Lecture Theatre. In particular thank you to Ms Tracy Videon and Ms Clare Bugeja for their organisation of this event. The Year 12 soloists who performed with the Chamber Strings – Zoe Bartholomeusz, James Hardy and Will Hardy demonstrated their great dedication to music. It was a fitting final performance for the Orchestra for 2018 and a sad, but fond farewell to Zoe Bartholomeusz, Kate Collier, Lucia El-Osta, James Hardy, William Hardy, Wilson Hu, Jean-Luc Karavendzas, Sotiri Poulios and Clarissa Seow all from Year 12.
STATE SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR
Congratulations to Michael Birkett, Kate Collier, Hadyn Collier, Chloe James and Orr Zaacks who took part in the State Schools Spectacular both in performing roles on stage, on in the tech crew, on Saturday 15 September at Hisense Arena. The Spectacular had a cast of 3000 Victorian government school students, who worked towards the common performance goal in a collaborative, competition-free environment. The standard of performance was extremely high and reflected the many hours of rehearsal leading up to this. Well done!
ASIA WEEK CONCERT
Congratulations to Dustin Yu, Jenny Huang, Tamanna Sharma and Tim Cheng who performed in the Asia Week concert during period 4 on Tuesday 18 September.
WORLD SONGS CONCERT
Congratulations to these students who performed music in languages other than English at lunch on Tuesday 18 September: Grace James (German), Tia Finn (Russian), Naomi Kricheli (Hebrew), Maskit Matityahu (Hebrew), Kate Collier, Rony Olesh and Elizabeth Tsagliotis (Yorta Yorta) and Tamanna Sharma (Hindi).
YEAR 12 CELEBRATION NIGHT
Join the VCE Music Performance class of 2018 in a night of celebration on Thursday 20 September at 7pm in the Theatre. This night will be a fantastic night of solos, duos, small groups and the final whole class performance to help celebrate their passion for music and their development as musicians. We wish the students well with their upcoming exams, auditions and future music careers and thank them for all they have contributed to the music program throughout their time at McKinnon.
VCE LEADERSHIP AWARDS
We look forward hearing about the Clarinet Choir, under the watchful direction of Ms Su Rogerson, performing at the VCE Leadership Awards on Friday 21 September at Parliament House in the city.
END OF TERM
A reminder to all instrumental students that with the holidays starting Friday afternoon, the Music Centre will be closing at 4pm. All students need to pick up their instruments before this time so that they can practice over the break, especially those that have exams coming up.
DATES FOR TERM 4
- Symphonic Wind Final Fling – Monday 15 October
- Ovenden Big Day Out – Thursday 25 October
- Percussion Night – Friday 26 October
- AMEB Vocal Exams – Friday 12 October
- AMEB Flute Exams – Saturday 27 October
- AMEB Clarinet/Saxophone Exams – Saturday 27 October
- Year 11 Night – Thursday 1 November
- AMEB Brass Exams – Wednesday 7 November
- VSMF Young Bands (Year 7 and 8 Bands involved) – Date TBC 12-15 November
- Ensemble Concert – Thursday 6 December
Megan Papworth
Head of Music