Music
Music Forms and Events can be found on Redlands Pulse
Senior Music Festival Ticket Selling Competition
We would like to acknowledge the winners of the Senior Music Festival ticket selling competition.
- Prize 1: Free VIP tickets to the Senior Music Festival 2020 and Behringer Monitor System – Winner: The Watts Family
- Prize 2: Free VIP tickets to the Senior Music Festival 2020 and Acoustic Guitar – Winner: The Leach Family
- Prize 3 – Free VIP tickets to the Senior Music Festival 2020 and Djembe – Winner: The Swann Family
- Prize 4 – Percussion bag with drum sticks and iTunes voucher – Winner: The Byron Family
- Prize 5 – Percussion bag with drum sticks and iTunes voucher – Winner: The Cragun Family
- Prize 6 – Percussion bag with drum sticks and iTunes voucher – Winner: The Scott Family
Music Ensemble Rehearsals
All Senior Cocurricular Ensembles commence from Tuesday 23 July (Week 1 Term 3). Throughout Weeks 1-5, students will be rehearsing in Small Ensembles and preparing repertoire for consideration and selection of performers at the annual Music Awards Dinner on Friday 23 August (Week 5). Students will receive the opportunity to work with Music specialists in developing skills for performance in small ensembles.
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
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 commencement of Term 3.
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.
Yr 2 Strings Performance
On Monday, parents and staff were treated to a performance from the Yr 2 String Program at Strings in the Piazza. Some highlights of the performance were the combined repertoire of Violins, Violas and Celli as well as the Extension Ensemble. Thank you to MIC of Strings Ms Mar’yana Syak for her leadership of this program, the String tutors involved in preparing students for this performance and to Mrs Anne-Marie Braid for accompanying at this event.
Mr Darren Kuilenburg
Coordinator of Music
seniormusic@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9820