Diana Springford – Head of Music P – 12

Music Ensemble photographs – Wednesday 21 October (Week 2) in the Aron Kleinlehrer Performing Arts Centre (PAC)

Advanced Life Photography will be taking photos of Music Ensembles (and House photos) on Wednesday 21 October. Please refer to the information on the ‘Extra Curricular Music and House Photos’ page of Ma Nishma. These photos, which will be used in the Yearbook as well as available for purchase, will feature our traditional (normal) ensembles, rather than the modified current versions. Please attend promptly in the correct uniform so that we can keep to schedule.

Private Tuition and Infant Strings Program

The schedules for Term 4 have been emailed. All tuition and ISP lessons have resumed. Please contact Matilda Grieve if you have any questions about private music tuition. 

Primary Classroom Music and Years 3-6 Instrument Program (IP)  

Years 3 – 6 IP has resumed (with all winds playing)! Our Term 4 Primary Music Teacher is Mrs Spira (who is also taking on Infants Choir this term). We can sing again in class but we there can be no recorder playing yet. We don’t have a room enormous enough to play them together, considering the rules we must follow.

Ensembles and Choirs

Instrumental ensembles and Choirs begin in Week 2. The broad brush of information for each ensemble/choir is in this spreadsheet. Please check on the plans for your group and if you haven’t heard from your conductor/ mentor already, please email them (their contact details are provided). 

We have had some good news from NSW Health, which means we can now play wind instruments, string and percussion, and even sing together to some extent but with particular protocols. 

Nearly all of our instrumental ensembles and choirs will rehearse from Week 2, but in a more or less modified form so as to account for the protocols we still need to follow, including the restriction that we can’t have students from different stages in the one ensemble or choir. We are planning to video every ensemble and choir in Week 6 so that everyone has something to show for their work in Term 4. So:

• Rehearsing for most ensembles this Term Weeks 2 – 6 inclusive but in slightly modified form. Some may continue into Week 7, but we will let you know if we can manage that
• All groups, except for Mendelssohn Chamber Strings, Brass Ensemble, and Flute Ensemble will be rehearsing in some format this term. 
• Some rehearsals (string ensembles and small groups) will have shifted time and location to account for stage splitting. Some will rehearse in modified form to account for this. 
• A few individual musicians will lose an ensemble or be asked to change ensembles and have been contacted directly.