Music
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Senior Music Festival – Back to the 80’s
Last Friday night, Redlands celebrated the artistic and creative achievements of Yrs 7-12 musicians, as students and staff presented the annual Senior Music Festival at The Concourse, Chatswood. Featuring ensembles from the Senior Campus, the audience was entertained with a diverse range of performances and repertoire from ensembles in the Choral, Concert Band, Strings and Small Ensemble programs, along with selected soloists from Yrs 11 and 12 Higher School Certificate and International Baccalaureate.
With 250 students and staff involved in this event, the Festival captured many exciting musical moments, from Chamber Music through to Jazz Improvisation. All musicians involved delivered an outstanding concert program that explored a wide range of repertoire and demonstrated a high level of technical and performance skills across all years. The students’ dedication to weekly rehearsals and commitment to perfecting repertoire was clearly seen through each performance at the Festival and the Music Department is extremely proud of each and every student for their passion, enthusiasm and engagement in such a wide variety of music experiences at Redlands.
The Music Department would like to acknowledge the contributions of all members of the Music team for their hard work, patience, flexibility in thinking and care of students as part of the Senior Music Festival. In consideration of the large number of students involved, and the overall logistics in staging solo performances right through to full-scale massed ensembles, the event ran incredibly smoothly and was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended.
We look forward to future Music performances and endeavours at Redlands, as students continue to maximise their potential and reach for excellence as young musicians. More photos can be found on Redlands Pulse.
Photos
Senior Cocurricular photos will be held on Wednesday 26 June at the top garden, full winter school uniform is required. Instruments are not required. Please see schedule below.
7.30am Combined Choir
8.00am Advanced Choir
3.20pm Redlands Combined Concert Band
3.45pm Redlands Orchestra
Music Community Working Bee
The Friends of Music Committee would like to invite members of the School community to a Working Bee on Tuesday 2 July (9.00am-3.00pm), assisting the Music Department in the final stages of preparing scores for relocation into the new Music Library storage units. The focus of this community morning is to assist with the sorting, organising, cataloguing and shelving of all Music Ensemble scores and ongoing data entry in updating our Music Library spreadsheets across the Junior and Senior Campuses. This working bee will also be a wonderful time for parents to meet the 2019 Friends of Music Committee. Morning tea and refreshments will be coordinated by the FOM Committee. If you would like to join us for the full time or even part thereof, please RSVP the Friends of Music President Mrs Emma McLaren (details below).
Location: The Edwards Auditorium (John Roberts Centre)
Time: 9.00am-3.00pm
Attire: Casual clothes
RSVP: Mrs Emma McLaren g_e_mclaren@hotmail.com
Senior Campus
In acknowledging the outstanding contributions of all students and staff of the 2019 Senior Music Festival, a celebration will be held at lunchtime on Friday 21 June where the winners of the ticket selling competition will be announced (see prizes below) and students will be given a celebratory cupcake.
- Prize 1 – Free VIP tickets to the Senior Music Festival 2020 and Acoustic Guitar
- Prize 2 – Free VIP tickets to the Senior Music Festival 2020 and Djembe
- Prize 3 – In Tune – Yamaha studio quality headphones
- Prize 4 – Percussion bag with Drum sticks and mallets
Redlands Composition Competition
The Music Department is pleased to announce the 2019 Music Composition Competition. This creative opportunity is designed for any aspiring young composer in Yrs 7-12 who is currently enrolled in the either the Academic Music program, Cocurricular Music Ensembles program or Extra Subjects program. Students are encouraged to continue developing original works for submission at the end of Term 2. Application forms are available from Music Reception.
Junior Campus
Junior Music Festival – Thursday 1 August
Music Through the Decades
Each family is able to book two tickets ONLY and this will be available from 10.00am this Monday 24 June.
Students in the Junior School are well-underway with their preparations for the annual Junior Music Festival in August. Students have been exploring music through the decades, in learning about The Beatles, Disco Music, Australian Rock Classics and Latin-Pop Music.
Mr Darren Kuilenburg
Coordinator of Music
seniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9820