Volume 31 Issue 1 04 Feb 2022 3 Adar I 5782

Music Matters

Diana Springford – Head of Music

Private Tuition begins in Week 2. Please note that we need your permission (via our School’s global COVID survey) for those students who have singing and wind instrument lessons, to sing and play wind instruments at School. If you have not already done this, please do so ASAP.

Ensembles and Choirs begin rehearsing in Week 3. Please note that we need your permission (via our School’s global COVID survey) for students in choirs or ensembles that involve singing and the playing of wind instruments, to be part of ensembles that involve singing and wind instruments. Please note that many of our ensembles and choirs are cross cohort, so again, we need your permission for cross cohort mixing for many of our normal ensembles and choirs.

Here is a link to our current rehearsal schedule. 

We anticipate that these ensembles and choirs will begin rehearsing in Week 3:

  • Junior Chamber Choir
  • Junior Choir
  • Infants Choir
  • Y11 Rock Band (with Ben)
  • Gershwin and Bernstein and Copland Concert Bands
  • Senior Choir (beginning at 7:30am since P0 doesn’t exit at the moment) 
  • Stage 4 Rock Band (with George)
  • Senior Jazz Ensemble (with Marty)
  • Saxophone Quartet (with Matilda)
  • Perlman, Korngold, Rubinstein and Mendelssohn String Ensembles
  • Emanuel Big Band & Junior Stage Band
  • Junior Jazz Combo (New for Years 7-9)
  • Brass Ensemble (New for Years 5-9)
  • Woodwind Ensemble 
  • Y12 Rock Band
  • Guitar Ensemble
  • Klezmer Ensemble (New!) 
  • Stage 5 Rock Band

Depending upon your answers to the parent survey about wind instrument playing, singing and cross cohort mixing, we may need to tweak our ensembles, but we will let you know next week if that is the case.

The Instrumental Program (IP) for Years 3-6 begins in Week 3

  • Year 3 and Year 5 have IP on Tuesdays and their first day is 15 February
  • Year 4 and Year 6 have IP on Wednesdays and their first day is 16 February

Please visit our Music Portal Page for information and links for:

  • Ensembles and Choirs
  • Private Tuition for instruments and voice as well as Infant String Program (ISP) for K-2
  • Music Camp 2022
  • Instrument Loans