Diana Springford – Director of Music P-12

Welcome to our Music Matters page! 🎶

Recent student performances

Mazal ov to the Copland Concert Band who had their One-Day Band Tour on Thursday. The band toured to three local Public Primary Schools to perform, demonstrate instruments and provide a really entertaining musical experience for the students attending. It was an opportunity to experience life as touring musicians, maintaining organisation, teamwork and musicianship. The schools visited were Matraville, Malabar and La Perouse Public Schools. The Primary School students were received with great appreciation, and they played to full houses. Thank you to their Ensemble Director, Remington Owen, and to Julian McKay, Jessica Yendell and alumnus Ben Cohen who also accompanied the students.

Kol Hakavod to Year 6 who performed a song as part of Project Heritage this week. They sang Halev Sheli by Ishay Ribo, led by Remington Owen and Jessica Yendell.

Dates and events

• NEW DATE! Night of Winds and Percussion – Wednesday 1 November 2023
• NEW DATE! Night of Strings – Wednesday 8 November 2023
• Twilight Concerts (tutor-nominated performances) – Wednesday 22 November 2023

Everything music-related will resume at the normal times from the first day of Week 1 in Term 4. This is especially important to remember for those whose weekly rehearsals are on a Tuesday, including Gershwin and Bernstein Concert Bands and Senior Choir which resume bright and early at 7.10 am on Tuesday 10 October 2023. The only exceptions to this are lunchtime and after-school rehearsals on Thursday 12 October 2023 (Brass Ensemble, Klezmer Ensemble and Copland Concert Band) when the HSC Music Exams will be taking place and we can’t accommodate your rehearsals. 

Instrument Program (IP) classes and Private Music Tuition resume from the first day of Term 4. Please remember to bring your instrument and music on your normal day. We are preparing for two very special concerts, which will showcase the skills of hundreds of young instrumentalists performing in a range of ensembles as well as all students from Years 3-6 performing with their Primary School Instrument Program cohort. Our Years K-2 students who are members of the Infant Strings Program will also feature in the strings concert. More information will follow next term.

Private Music Tuition and Infant Strings Program

Thank you to those who have already advised us of changes to private tuition and Infant Strings Program (ISP) enrolments for next term. The deadline for new enrolments, notification of changes or intention to discontinue for Term 4, has now passed. All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in Years K-2 who are currently participating in the ISP will be automatically re-enrolled into tutor schedules along with students commencing for the first time. Please contact music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions.  

The schedules for Term 4 will be created at the end of term and emailed during October term break.

Please visit our Music Portal Page for information about:

• Private Music Tuition (beginning and discontinuing)
• Ensemble and Choir membership for K-12 students
• Infant Strings Program (ISP) for K-2
• Performance opportunities
• Borrowing an orchestral instrument.