Artspace
TCE/IB Art Exhibtion
Thank you to everyone who attended our wonderful TCE/IB Art Exhibition held in The Farrall Centre. Our talented students worked so hard to put together this stunning collection for their final assessment and the results were outstanding. Thank you also to Tasmanian artist Katy Woodroffe for opening the exhibition for us.
Georgia Hines (Year 12 Studio Practice) and Gabrielle Larsson (Year 11 Art Production) were this year's winners of the Old Scholar's Association Art Prize!
Student Artwork Turning Heads
Year 11 student Millie Crombie has been selected as a finalist for the Abel Tasman Arts Prize, held by Kingborough Council.
The Abel Tasman Art Prize is a great opportunity for students in Years 11 and 12 at schools and colleges throughout Tasmania to experience a semi-professional arts competition. They are invited to apply for the opportunity to exhibit and sell their work at an exhibition in December. It was initiated by the Dutch Australia Society in Tasmania in 2000 to celebrate the bonds between the Netherlands and Tasmania and to foster a relationship with the municipality of Grootegast, the birthplace of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. It is a reciprocal award, with the Tasmanian winner spending three weeks in the Netherlands one year, and the Dutch winner spending three weeks in Tasmania the following year.
The exhibition is being held at the Kingston Beach Hall in December this year.
Year 12 student Rory Bliss has had two photographs selected for the 2019 Annual Victorian and Tasmanian International Baccalaureate Diploma World Schools Visual Arts Exhibition. This is an exhibition of selected artwork from International Baccalaureate students across Tasmania and Victoria.
The exhibition is to be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery in Victoria in February 2019.
Wind Ensemble at the Victorian School Music Festival
In late August the School Wind Ensemble went to Melbourne to participate in the Victorian School Music Festival, an event that sees hundreds of school bands, choirs and orchestras perform at a variety of venues in Melbourne over several months.
The event is much more than an eisteddfod. An adjudicator directs the band at the conclusion of each performance, focussing on two or three performance elements that will help the band improve. Band directors are also able to review a video recording of their conducting whilst under the guidance of an experienced conducting clinician.
This was the School’s third time at the Festival, but the first for the Wind Ensemble. We were therefore delighted with the outcome, with the Ensemble receiving a Gold Award. Congratulations to the students, the music staff and especially to the conductors Marg Reid and Catherine Morris for this wonderful result.
A recording of the live stream of the Festival may be found here for those who missed the ensemble’s performance or would like to hear it again.
Fundraising Concert - Afghanistan National Institute of Music
On Thursday 20 September, the School hosted a very special chamber music concert to raise funds for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM). This student-led initiative, instigated by Year 12 student and violinist Max Parr, saw a number of School chamber music groups play in conjunction with the Kettering Piano Quartet. The event raised over $1000 with all proceeds used to support the ANIM directed by Dr Ahmad Sarmast.
ANIM seeks to train future musicians of Afghanistan, and in the process use music to bring people together and contribute to achieving long-lasting peace in that nation.
The concert was held in the Bahai Centre and ANIM was represented by documentary filmmaker Polly Watkins. In 2012 Polly made a film about ANIM titled Dr Sarmast's Music School.
Congratulations to Max Parr for organising such a beautiful event, and we thank the various chamber music students and in particular the Kettering Piano Quartet for their involvement.