Diana Springford – Head of Music

Music Camp – last chance to sign up!

If you have decided you would like to come to Music Camp and haven’t yet signed up, please contact Joanne De Araujo immediately. 

We’ve had a wonderful response and a large group of talented students from Years 4 -12 are registered to attend Music Camp in June. Our participants list is being finalised and a detailed packing list will be sent to attendees in Week 6. If you are unsure whether you have registered or not, please check that your name is on the list on the noticeboard in the Music Department.

Music Camp is a wonderful celebration of our vibrant music culture and the talents and hard work of our young musicians. Each camp is a special experience for students as they unite in a shared love of music and work together in the pursuit of excellence. Emanuel School music staff join with a team of highly skilled professional musicians to develop and hone students’ musical skills in preparation for an exciting showcase concert.

Music Camp is a four-day camp from Monday 7 June 2021 to Thursday 10 June 2021. The first three days are held at Lake Macquarie Outdoor Recreation Centre in Balcolyn and the final day is held at School. Students return to Emanuel on the evening of Wednesday 9 June 2021, to be collected by parents in the early evening. Camp continues on Thursday 10 June 2021 with an all-day rehearsal, a BBQ dinner for students and our Music Camp Showcase Concert in the MPH on the Thursday evening.

Infants Music Assembly

Kol Hakavod to the fabulous Infants School musicians who performed so beautifully for the Infants School Music Assembly last Friday. For many children this was their first ever music performance. Everyone performed so well! 

The Infants Choir gave a rousing rendition of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious conducted by Sarit Spira and accompanied by  Antonio Fernandez. Our new Perlman Ensemble played Mr Crocodile, conducted by  Monique Mezzatesta and accompanied by  Antonio Fernandez. Thank you to Sarit and Monique for organising this performance and for their dedicated teaching and support of our young musicians. Our thanks also to Antonio for his wonderful accompaniment.

The recording of these performances is accessible via the Music button on the parent portal.

Jazz Combo performed at the High School Assembly this week

Mazal tov to the Jazz Combo for their excellent performance of The Chicken by Jaco Pastorius at assembly in Week 3: Jamie Schneider, Coby New, Jake Sharp, Daniel Langman (all Year 10) and Oren Levin-Kahn (Year 9). They were stylishly led by  Marty Farrugia playing trumpet.

The recording of this performance is accessible via the Music button on the parent portal.

Calling interested Years 5 – 12 students to help compose our School Song for Audience Choir

Imagine that you were asked to bring your phone to assembly, that you were asked to “FIND YOUR OWN ADVENTURE” through a bunch of questions about what you value about your school, which lead you to your special “SONIC IDENTITY” which, when activated played an AUDIO RECORDING that, in combination with other sonic identities, made a special “SOUNDSCAPE” over which everyone is taught a simple and memorable canon to sing. Weird, eh? 

It’s the Audience Choir song, but it isn’t composed yet.

It will be composed by a bunch of you, and you don’t need to be a musician to make this music, although you can be.

If you are interested in this opportunity to contribute to the composition of this weird, wonderful and new “SCHOOL SONG”, then maybe one of these roles would suit you? 

• We are looking for musicians to help make the simple canon/round so it has a flavour appropriate to our school.
• We need some writers who like asking questions, who have questions to ask about our school values and sense of community.
• We need some audio engineers who have sounds they’d like to record – sounds that are of and show our school, whether that be the macro-sounds of basketballs bouncing out there, or the micro sounds of charcoal drawn across paper up in the LINC, or the sound of Kindies attempting some “waterplay” – think what sounds make you think of our School.

If you could conceive of yourself as a composer/writer/audio engineer/soundscape maker, or if you are curious about this odd creative project, and would like to join our project, please email Ms Springford to inform her of your interest and meet her in the Millie Phillips Theatre next Tuesday 11 May 2021 at lunchtime to meet Alice, who will lead us down the rabbit hole of our School Audience Choir Song composition.

Music Portal page

For announcements about our busy Music program, please check our Music Portal Page on a weekly basis.

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