Diana Springford – Director of Music P-12

Welcome to our Music Matters page! 🎶

Thanks so much for your support of music at Emanuel this year. Here is some important information for Term 1 2024.  

• IP classes and Extra-curricular Music Ensemble Rehearsals resume in Week 3 in 2024.
• Year 3 and Year 5: The first day of IP in 2024 is Tuesday 13 February 2024.
• Year 4 and Year 6: The first day of IP in 2024 is Wednesday 14 February 2024.
• K-2 Infant Strings Program classes will resume from Week 2 in 2024.

Updated Ensembles and Choirs Rehearsal Schedule 2024 

Here is our weekly ensemble rehearsal schedule for 2024. We will continue to update this as necessary.

Auditions

Auditions for all relevant ensembles and choirs will be held in Week 3, Term 1 2024 and advertised in Ma Nishma as appropriate. Auditions always involve a student playing or singing a piece of their choice, and usually involve some sight reading and/or vocal exercises, and sometimes a couple of scales for instrumentalists but the details of requirements for auditions are announced when the auditions are first advertised.

End of Year Music Performances

Please look out for these ensembles and choirs who will be beautifully presented in next week’s end-of-year presentation ceremonies: 

Years K – 2 Presentation Day

• Infants Choir
• Perlman Strings

Years 3 – 6 Presentation Night

•   Junior Choir
•   Junior Chamber Choir
•   Year 6 Rock Band
•   Gershwin + Bernstein combined Concert Bands (PS members only)

High School Speech Night
(rehearsals in the afternoon, at Emanuel Synagogue)

•   Senior Choir
•   Jazz Combo
•   Mendelssohn String Ensemble
•   Klezmer Ensemble
•   Mariah Lewy, Caitlin Ben Mayor, Ariel Solomon, Alice Milner

Instruments checked and ready for collection 

Thank you to students for bringing in any school instruments this week for our annual stocktake and maintenance check. They have been serviced and are ready for collection from the cabinets in the Music Department. A few will need to go offsite for repairs and Joanne De Araujo will have emailed you about those. If you haven’t already collected your instrument (or replacement instrument, if yours has gone for repair and you are keen to practise over term break – which we hope you will), please do so before the end of the term.  No students should leave their instruments here over term break.

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 year. The deadline for new enrolments, notification of changes or intention to discontinue for Term 1 2024 was Friday 24 November 2023.

All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in Years K-1 who are currently participating in the ISP will be automatically re-enrolled into tutor schedules along with students commencing for the first time. Formal notification of intention to discontinue must be received now to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees. 

The schedules for Term 1 2024 will be created during term break and emailed in late January.

Please contact music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions.  

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.