Music

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Meeting with Australian Composer and Redlander – Jack Frerer

This week our Foundation office, in conjunction with the Careers office, will be hosting a Virtual Speed Mentoring event via Zoom with emerging Young Australian Composer Jack Frerer, Class of 2013 as one of the mentors.

Students, staff and parents are invited to join this session and participate in conversation with Jack Frerer on his journey as a graduate of Redlands and The Juilliard School and his new career as a composer, producer and filmmaker, based in New York City.

This Zoom event is scheduled for Thursday 21 May (4.30pm-5.30pm). Parents and students will be emailed all relevant Zoom links in the coming days.

Biography – Jack Frerer

The “exuberant” and “delicious” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) music of Jack Frerer (b. 1995) has been performed across the US, Australia, Europe and Asia, and will performed this season by ensembles including the Nashville Symphony, the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Albany Symphony’s “Dogs of Desire” ensemble, the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the UT Austin Wind Ensemble, among others. Jack is the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Morton Gould Composers Award from ASCAP, the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award, and the Brian Israel Prize from the Society for New Music, and winner of both the Juilliard Orchestra and Gena Raps Chamber Music competitions. He was a Tanglewood composition fellow for 2019, a composer for the New York City Ballet’s 2019 Choreographic Institute, and is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Arapahoe Philharmonic. Jack studied with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser at The Juilliard School.

As a filmmaker, Jack has created films for The Juilliard School and Quest Magazine, dancers Marcelo Gomes and Julie Kent, as well as music videos for bands and ensembles. He is a co-creator and producer of The Roof, a collaborative film and performance series he created with dancer Liana Kleinman which features New York–based choreographers and composers.

Jack was the recording engineer for ShoutHouse’s album Cityscapes, released by New Amsterdam Records in June 2019. He has recently produced recordings for artists including Molly Joyce, Nina Grollman, Will Healy and Noah Halpern, as well as the score for Always Summer, a short film by Alexa Eve. To listen to works by Jack Frerer please visit https://www.jackfrerer.com

Music Festivals 2020

The Music Department is sad to inform our community that the Redlands Junior and Senior Music Festivals, and the annual HICES Music Festival have been cancelled for 2020. We understand that this decision will have an impact on our Redlands Music community, particularly our musicians, who enjoy sharing their musical talents with family and friends. However, the government directive to restrict public gatherings has mandated these cancellations. As a department, we remain committed to both enriching the life of students and the wider Music community by working towards some possible presentation opportunities in Term 3, in providing students with performance goals as they continue to work on their repertoire, build technical skills and continue exploring their love of music making.

Remote Music Learning

Teaching over this past week has seen Music teachers and tutors engaging with the students in both On-Campus Learning and Remote Learning platforms. Over the past month, the Department has committed itself to ensuring that we continue to provide our students with instructional materials in all areas of Music. In focusing on delivering remote online platforms, we have been working in association with our exceptional Music specialists to develop and administer a range of innovative learning resources to support student learning and music making across the Academic, Cocurricular and Extra Subjects Music programs.

Music Program Offerings – Weeks 3 and 4

Academic Music

We look forward to welcoming students back into the classroom over the coming fortnight with the School’s gradual reintroduction to On-Campus Learning. In ensuring the safety and wellbeing of students and staff, access to Private Music Tuition rooms will be limited at this time. The only exception to this arrangement applies to the Yr 12 Higher School Certificate and International Baccalaureate courses of study, as we support these students in their final preparatory stages for all major practical works.

Cocurricular Music Ensembles

Junior School and Secondary Music Ensembles will continue to be delivered through online platforms in providing students with learning resources to work independently at home. This includes Google Classroom (Yrs 3-6) and iLearn (Yrs 7-12). Please note, Preparatory Choir and Preparatory Strings will not be running at this stage.

Please note that the following Secondary School Music Ensembles that occur in the morning will now commence at 7.15am rather than 7.30am, to allow students who live near-by time to travel. All students are encouraged to participate in the session, even if this means engaging with the tutorial for 15 minutes. All resources for independent learning are available to the students via their Music Ensembles iLearn Platform.

Intermediate and Advanced Guitar Ensembles (7.15am-7.45am)
Combined Choirs (7.15am-7.45am)
Intermediate Jazz, Stage Band and Jazz Vocal Ensemble (7.15am-7.45am)

Extra-Subjects Music (Individual Tuition and Groups)

From the start of this term, the department reintroduced all Individual Music Tuition and Group classes across the School. While these sessions will continue to be delivered by Music tutors remotely via Zoom, at this stage we are unable to provide On-Campus tuition. Music tutors will be ensuring that students are provided with instruction on alternate days, in consideration of their Academic classes during scheduled On-Campus Learning days. Revised Music tuition schedules will be issued by Music tutors prior to the commencement of the next week.

Mr Darren Kuilenburg
Coordinator of Music
seniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9820