Music

Generations in Jazz

On Friday the 4th of May students from St Andrews were loaded up onto a bus to head to Mount Gambier in South Australia to attend the annual Generation in Jazz competition. This is a national competition for schools run by world renown musicians such James Morrison and members from the Idea of North.

This is the fourth year St Andrews has attended, and over 30 students from 3 vocal ensembles were competing at the festival. Our groups started preparing for the weekend in term four last year, so a lot of effort and dedication goes into learning and refining the pieces we present. 

Another part of the weekend were the concerts held both evenings, where we had the amazing opportunity to watch musicians and bands from around the world such as The Cat Empire, Patti Austin, Shannon Barnett and James Morison. This was an amazing chance for us to get to listen to musicians make great music, and we all came away from the weekend excited and inspired to start learning new pieces.

A huge thank you to Helen Metcalfe and Tom Gibbs for coming along and supporting the students over the course of the weekend. 

Luke Batty

Head of Music

Ensembles Concert

 On Tuesday the 22nd of May the various groups and bands from St Andrews Christian College came together for our first Ensembles Extravaganza concert for 2018. 

The Night opened with the Senior Worship Band setting the mood for the rest of the concert with a stirring rendition of “Who You Say I Am”. After this there were a range of groups from string ensembles through the concert band and choirs presenting the pieces that they had been working on throughout the year. 

One highlight was hearing both of the Year 5 bands led by Helen Metcalfe  perform for the first time in public after receiving their instruments only 10 short weeks ago.

A huge thank you to our instrumental teachers who helped out on the night Wen Hui Wong, Ryan Chin, Rebekah Ho, Lydia Lim, Dorcas Lim and Matthew Todd. Also a big thank you to the Year 11 Theatre Studies class for MC’ing and running the tech for the concert. 

Luke Batty

Head of Music