Music Performance

Congratulations to all the music students who performed so beautifully at Wednesday evening's Welcome Recital. We were able to showcase students from each year group from Kindergarten all the way to Year 12, with a variety of instruments and styles. Thank you to the splendid Year 6 Music Portfolio representatives, for acting as our ushers for the evening, and Senator Sabina Anderson for hosting the event. Our students performed with confidence and with lots of support from their music teachers and collaborative musicians.

Year 2 String Ensemble

The Year 2 String Ensemble has had its second rehearsal for the term and students are already off to a great start. We have welcomed the new year of ensemble playing with the revision of excellent performance posture, sound intonation and building on the ensemble skills learnt last year. The ensemble will be working on pieces from the well-known Fiddle Time Joggers as well as Abracadabra repertoire. We are very excited to be preparing for the assembly performances planned for this year, as well as exploring the art of canon playing, two and three part pieces, and complex rhythms and bowing techniques. We are looking forward to a fun and exciting year of music making!

Year 3-4 Guitar Ensemble

The Year 3 and 4 guitar students had their second guitar ensemble rehearsal this week and have had an incredible start. In addition to learning the rules and routines in our class we are also already making our way through our first song for the year. We have been working on the song ‘Lonely Boy’ by The Black Keys and this week we have managed to learn the intro, which is the main riff of the song, as well the first part of the melody. The song is already starting to take shape and is sounding great. There are some very talented guitarists in our group and we are really looking forward to a great year of guitar music. Keep an eye out because this ensemble is one to watch!