Diana Springford – Head of Music

Kol Hakavod to the Senior Boys Vocal Ensemble for their beautiful a cappella performance of Vive L’Amour at the High School assembly on Tuesday.

Forthcoming performances this Term and the ensembles featured, are:

Week 4

• Tuesday: High School Assembly – Senior Choir
• Thursday: Twilight Concerts, Mr Burley will host performances by many Primary School and High School students

Week 5

• Wednesday: Senior Pianists will play for the Emanuel Writers AwardsWeek 6

Week 6

• Tuesday: IP Information morning 7.30 am for Year 2 students and anyone new to Years 3-6 in 2020
• Tuesday: High School Assembly – Senior Stage Band and Senior Girls Vocal Ensemble

 Week 7

• Tuesday: High School Assembly – Guitar Ensemble
• Tuesday and Wednesday: Instrument Allocation Tests for IP for Year 2 students and anyone new to Years 3-6 in 2020

 Week 8

• Tuesday: Volunteers Assembly – Junior Jazz Combo, Junior Choir, Junior Stage Band
• Tuesday: Instrument Maintenance Check Day If you are borrowing a school instrument (for IP, for ISP, or for your ensemble playing) please bring it in today to get it checked and serviced by our team. Please pick it up on Thursday unless you get an email from us.

 Week 9

• Presentation Day (Years K-2) – Infants Choir, Infants String Program (ISP) and all Infants classes will sing!
• Presentation Night (Years 3-6) – Bernstein Concert Band, Korngold Strings, Junior Choir, Junior Chamber Choir, Primary School Chamber Trio and everyone in Years 3-6 will sing!
• High School Speech Night – Green Man Band, Mendelssohn Chamber Strings, Copland Concert Band, Senior Stage Band

Leonie Cohen’s Three Plus Three Quartet

On Thursday evening, Emanuel School was fortunate to host an evening of music with Jazz-pianist Leonie Cohen, who has taught here since 2011.  Leonie was joined by Berlin-based violinist Daniel Weltinger (Year 12,1995) and Ukraine-born cellist, Anatoli Torjinski, with Hugh Fraser on double bass and Nic Cecire on drums.  This free community event was organised by Adam Carpenter and Michelle Favero. Thanks also to Andy Bromberger who introduced the performance with a discussion on Jewish music. 

On Wednesday, our Year 10 Elective Music class was privileged to be visited by Leonie and Daniel, both of whom shared some of their compositional insights and inspirations, spoke about improvisation and observed how Jazz is a bit Jewish to start with.