Music at MAG

D2 Drumline Workshop

During the school holidays the MAG Senior Drumline had the absolute pleasure of attending a workshop at school, led by three of Australia’s top drumline and percussion educators; Campbell Phillips, Harry Potocnik and Jordan Kiely, in preparation for the Australian Drumline Competition in early August. 

The three day workshop included one-on-one workshops for the soloists, as well as group sessions. The drumline learnt many new exercises from warm-up drills, to skill and technique exercises and new stick tricks. We worked together with Harry, Cam and Jordan on our performance pieces for the drumline competition, helping to increase our precision, technique and memorisation of the charts. We learnt all the choreography for each piece, and after lots and lots of practice we finally started to get the hang of it! 

Overall the drumline workshop was extremely helpful, our improvement as a line was incredible after just 3 days of hard work. The improvement within each section was awesome to see as well! 

A massive thank you to Kev Kiely and Mrs Gibbs for organising the workshop and for Harry, Cam and Jordan for coming to MAG and teaching us so much. We all very much enjoyed it, and can’t wait to work with them all again! 

Ella Bowler (Year 11)

Limited Places Now Available for Piano Lessons:

We are pleased to offer a limited number of piano lesson openings through our Extra-Curricular Music Program, that have only just become available this term.

For your child to take an advantage of this opportunity, please complete and application form at your earliest convenience, available here: https://www.moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-Extra-curricular-Music-form.pdf

Due to the limited number of piano lesson spots available, a waiting list may need to be put in place for any surplus applications. 

There remains reasonable availability for some of our other instruments on offer including drums, guitar, flute, and voice.

Welcome – Zech Walters!

We are thrilled to welcome Zech Walters, who will be joining our exceptional team of Extra-Curricular Music tutors. Zech is excited to start leading the Rock Bands in Primary and Secondary. Zech will also be expanding the number of Rock Bands available to students and providing opportunities for the bands to develop not only ensemble playing, but also skills for song writing and composition. 

You can find out more about Zech is his biography.

For any music queries, please contact Mrs Fiona Gibbs (Extra Curricular Co-ordinator): fgibbs@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au