Music

Battle of the Bands

Winners AND Grinners!

Our epic annual Rock Battle ended with the mass consensus was that the audience were the winners of this year’s event – having enjoyed the offerings of every single act in this year’s Battle of the Bands line up. From the opening acts to the final division, we were treated to a wild, rambunctious display of talent and passion in equal measure!

Our guest artists, the Yr 5 & 6 Junior Rock Bands, kicked the night off like pros, making a bold statement to the Senior School to brace for impact when they cross the road in a year or two!

Pictured above are this year’s Overall Winners, Callum Wardman-Browne & Austin Stapleton. Arts Captain Callum offered his original rock ballad You Ain’t Coming Back’ from the keys, accompanied by Austin Stapleton on drums, the Sir Elton John meets Ben Folds-esque extravaganza capably secured the Overall Winner trophy for 2022.

Our seasoned adjudicator, Travis New, was in awe of the high level of talent on display at Redlands across all age groups. (See the photo highlight reel at the bottom of this Note Day article!)

Hearty congratulations to the Division Winners listed below, and indeed to every performer. Special commendation to those students (and tutors) who stepped in at the last minute to fill gaps left by isolating students. Noted too are those who worked hard all term but were sadly unable to play the gig on the night. Next year awaits!

	Division One Winners	Division Two Winners	Division Three Winners
Unplugged	Isabella Solgaard	Hallie Hunt & Lara Wilson	Callum Wardman-Browne & Austin Stapleton
Bands	Rise of the Masses Alex Bush Sam Elworthy Lucas Law	Little Windmill Jasmine Black Olivia Everingham Alfie Leach Apoorv Pilani Tommy Sigaloff	Masters of Spinjitzu Ashley Manovel Solomon Osbourne Austin Stapleton

Red Factor

Tomorrow!

As Annie would croon, it’s ‘only a day away’! The stage is set, costumes are prepared and our performers are ready to WOW our audiences tomorrow at Red Factor in Dunnet Hall.

Session 1 (Years 3 & 4): 1.30pm start
Session 2 (Years 5 & 6): 2.15pm start

A reminder that two parents / carers per performer are invited to attend the relevant session(s). Guests must be masked and maintain physical distancing, and are asked to please wait outside the Dunnet Hall entrance on Alister Street until doors open. See you there!

Junior & Senior Piano Competitions

Friday 29 April June 2022 6pm

Finalists are honing their performances ahead of these events that will kick off our Term 2 performance calendar. We are excited to announce that our guest adjudicator for these events will be internationally respected French-British pianist and composer, Dr Jeremy Eskenazi.

Dr Eskenazi has given concerts, seminars, workshops and lecture-recitals around the world, including the Festival Chopin in Paris, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, and the Istanbul Opera House. Having studied at both the Paris Conservatoire and holding a PhD in Performance Practice from the Royal Academy of Music London (of which he was appointed an Associate in 2015), his expertise in both piano performance and musicology has seen him recorded prolifically and published by Cambridge University and Ut Orpheus.

Dr Eskenazi is the founder the Muzio Clementi Society which has become an authoritative source on Clementi’s significance as a composer, publisher, instrument maker, and as ‘the father of the piano’. We look forward to his contribution and adjudication for this significant event in our annual calendar.

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Senior Music Festival 2022

Friday 17 June 2022 6pm

This will be a Senior Music Festival you won’t want to miss. As always, keep your eye on Pulse MUSIC EVENTS to ensure our flagship events and mandatory extra rehearsals are on the family calendar.

As mentioned last Note Day, students are excited at the prospect of the Senior Music Festival ‘show t-shirt’ for 2022. A reminder that if your child is in a cocurricular ensemble or production crew, please click the link below to specify your desired size by the last day of Term One (or an approximated size will be ordered on your behalf).

SENIOR STUDENTS – CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR FESTIVAL T-SHIRT SIZE

Auditions Now Open

Senior Vocal Competition

Senior Vocal Competition will be held on Friday 10 June 2022. Auditions are now invited via video upload to the Redlands Music Auditions iLearn page, with submissions closing on 6 May 2022.

Redlands Festival Orchestra

Auditions are now open on the Redlands Music Auditions iLearn page to be part of the Redlands Festival Orchestra for 2022, to feature at the Senior Music Festival and at Speech Day later this year. Audition submissions will be closing on Tuesday 26 April 2022.

Instrument Collection

Don’t forget to take your instrument home over the holidays! Aside from ensuring your instrument is safely stored at home, the holidays are a wonderful opportunity to have fun on your instrument and play it just for the sake of playing it! Perform for your family, compose a piece, challenge yourself with some new goals, or catch up on your practice in readiness for a productive Term 2!

Team Thanks

The end of term provides that chance to highlight those who provide the ‘wind beneath our wings’ of our Music programs. Staff have all navigated their own challenges this term while working around the clock, striving for maximised continuity of learning and to provide door-opening opportunities for our students. We continue to be grateful for the team of Music teachers, tutors, administrators and friends that have gathered to serve the vision of Redlands Music, and for the extraordinary dedication and commitment on display as they do so.