Performing Arts and Music
Music Department
This year’s Band Tour was a raging success, wowing audiences far and wide from Colac to Portland. In fact, they are still raving about our concerts last week.
Some of the feedback from schools we visited:
“Just a message to thank you for offering us the opportunity to see your fabulous school band and choir in action. They were amazing!! Even though we were their last port of call, they remained engaging and very, VERY entertaining! The way that they included our students was fantastic. They have been talking about the performance ALL DAY!
Your staff, support staff and coordinators obviously played a very important role in this process. A big thank you to them for giving up what I can only imagine was their own time to support what is obviously an extensive and very successful program.
Please feel free to drop in and see us again at any time. We welcome you with open arms!”
(Heywood Consolidated School)
“WOW! What a show! We had an amazing time today. All of our students were still buzzing when we dismissed them at the end of the day.
I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for providing us with the opportunity to work with your ensembles. The students are a credit to your music department and the visit has inspired a number of our students. I teach my year 7 classes tomorrow and Thursday so I am very interested to hear the feedback from the non-instrumental students. Your group had quite a large number of our students up dancing at the end so that is always a good sign if you can get them up and out of their seats!
Our Principal and both of our Assistant Principals visited the rehearsals today and were blown away by the professionalism of your students and the calibre of their performances. Our Principal was still enthusiastically talking about what she had seen when I saw her at 5pm today.
We would gladly welcome your group back again and we hope to visit you in a few years when our band program has grown a little more.” (Brauer College, Warrnambool)
Thank you all the students and staff whose wonderful contributions made this tour one of our best yet!
If you want to see what all the excitement was about, don’t miss our rescheduled Home Coming Concert on Monday 20 November at 7pm. Performance space to be confirmed soon!
Upcoming events:
Tuesday 14 November
AMEB Flute Exams
Tuesday 14 November
Victorian Schools Music Festival for Training Band 7.20pm. Deakin Edge, Federation Square
Wednesday 15 November
AMEB Clarinet Exams
Friday 17 November
AMEB Brass Exams
Monday 20 November
Band Tour Home Coming Concert 7pm
Janine Pero
Director of Music
Performing Arts
SHREK Junior Production
Tickets are on sale now - visit
http://www.rscproduction.com.au/
The show will run from Friday December 15th to Monday December 18th, 2017
Don't miss out on your seat for this great show!
Wicked - starring Jasmine Arthur
We are very proud to announce that Jasmine Arthur will be performing in the lead role of
Gilda in the Young Australian Broadway Chorus (YABC) production of WICKED at the
National Theatre in St Kilda, January 19-27, 2018. Jasmine is a very experienced performer
appearing in lead roles in Young Australian Broadway Chorus productions as Princess Fiona in
SHREK the Musical Jr (2017) and Ariel in Disney The Little Mermaid Jr (2015) at the Union
Theatre.
Karl McNamara
Director of Performing Arts