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Junior Music Festival is BACK! …in Black.

Actually, it’s back in full and resplendent colour and we simply can not wait to see our Years 3-6 students take to the stage this term in Dunnet Hall for their Annual Spectacular on Thursday 4 August at 4:30pm.

In their curriculum Music lessons and cocurricular ensembles, students have been learning repertoire relating to our theme for 2022 – ‘School of Rock’ – and they are very excited to be performing at this event!

Tickets will be available through Trybooking from 8pm this evening until Tuesday 2 August. Please be advised that Junior School students DO NOT need a ticket. This is a free event however due to venue size limitations and our COVID Response seating restrictions, each family may only reserve one ticket. Please respect this guidance which will allow all families the chance to watch their child perform. This performance will be filmed and access to this recording will be distributed following the Festival.

CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET

Senior Instrumental Competition 2022 – AUDITIONS OPEN

The Redlands Senior Instrumental Competition for 2022 is the next exciting offering in our Annual Competition series and is to be held on Monday 19 September 2022 in the Edwards Auditorium. As mentioned last term, the Music Department Auditions Page is now open for audition video uploads – with auditions to be submitted by next Friday 29 July 2022 at 5pm. 

Spread the word about this wonderful performance opportunity and concert experience.

Music Awards Dinner – Friday 26 August 2022

As our calendar begins to return to its pre-COVID rhythms, we are excited to announce that Friends of Music will again be hosting this joyous night at the Manly Golf Club – filled with great food and entertainment provided by our students in small ensemble arrangements. As well as celebrating the esteemed place that music holds within our school community, students across our many cocurricular ensembles will be nominated for awards in areas of Service, Leadership, Dedication and Excellence to the Music Program throughout 2022, with the award winners announced on the evening. All Yr 7 students will be formally welcomed into the Music Program and presentation with merit certificates for their commitment to the cocurricular program this year. At the other end of the journey, this evening is also a chance to farewell our Yr 12 cohort – honouring them likewise for their contributions to both music and their peers in the program throughout their Redlands journey.

Information regarding the purchase of tickets for this dinner will be released shortly.

Redlands EP 2021/2022 Drop

The long awaited Album Drop for Redlands 4th EP featuring the composition winners from last year’s Composition Competition will also ‘drop’ on the evening of the Awards Dinner.

Composition Competition now open!

The final competition in our annual series, Composition Competition a.k.a. ‘Comp Comp’ is a fantastic catalyst for those budding singer-songwriters and composers to get their creative juices flowing! Redlands 5th EP project is now open to receive entries via the iLearn page. Adhering to the specified guidelines, composition submissions are to be uploaded by Friday 26 August 2022.

Welcome New Staff

Gloriously dispelling any notion of a decline in Music engagement post-COVID, our Redlands Private Tuition stream numbers are at a record high with more than 430 students each week participating in private music lessons, and waiting lists burgeoning. To this end, we are delighted to welcome pianist, Mr Tony Lee to our team of world-class Music Tutors and Accompanists. 

Tony is a highly experienced piano teacher and accompanist and is objectively regarded as one of Australia’s finest pianists. Sydney-born but educated in Europe, Tony was an artist in residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium, working the renowned Portuguese-Swiss pianist, Maria-João Pires. He is one of the most highly awarded pianists in Australia and is the First Prizewinner of the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition, Australian National Piano Award, John Allison Sydney Eisteddfod Scholarship, and was furthermore named the ‘Best Australian Pianist’ at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016.

We are delighted to have Tony with us and he too is very much looking forward to working with the students and team at Redlands.

Join and ensemble? Learn an instrument?

The start of each new semester is a fantastic window to join an ensemble or take up an instrument if it’s been on your to do list! We have enjoyed meeting dozens of new ensemble members this week on the Senior Campus and our Junior ensembles will welcome new intake straight after Junior Music Festival. Opportunity exists for new members to jump on board across all ensembles. If you would like to join choir, band or small ensemble, take musicianship classes or have private lessons on a new instrument, reach out to the Music office for direct assistance, or simply sign up using the electronic forms on Pulse and we will help you launch your journey.

CLICK HERE TO ENROL IN PRIVATE TUITION 

CLICK HERE TO JOIN AN ENSEMBLE

Eisteddfod Success!

Congratulations to our Junior Arts Captain Ina Guan, who received second place in the 12 & Under Cello section of the Sydney Eisteddfod.

2022 Elective Music Showcases 

Our Elective Music programs from Years 8-12 provide rich and diverse learning experiences for our students as both solo and ensemble performers. These experiences in turn guide student growth as musicians from early High School and into their senior-most years within the HSC or the IB Course and into the industry and real world beyond.

As the culmination of their year’s work and by way of assessment, all elective students present a showcase performance in the Edwards Auditorium each year for parents and friends.

We invite you to save the afternoons on the dates below to attend and support our students:

Semester 2 Dates for your Diary

Keep your eye on the Music Events page on Pulse to ensure you don’t miss any chance to share in the wonderful music being made at Redlands.

Music Tuition while at Winter School

As advised last term, we are offering ‘Zoom’-based Private Instrumental or Vocal Tuition sessions for Winter School attendees upon request, in order to ensure continuity of learning is afforded. Though there are many timetabling logistics to navigate and lessons are not necessarily able to be guaranteed, if your child is attending Winter School and you would like us to investigate the possibility of occasional Instrumental or Vocal lessons with your tutor, please use the sign up form below to  to confirm your interest by the end of this week.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR ZOOM LESSONS WHILE AT WINTER SCHOOL

Contact us

As always, our Music administration team remain ready to help you with any queries you have. 

Let’s have a magnificent term!

Amy Richardson
Director of Music P-12

juniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au
seniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au