Diana Springford – Head of Music

Welcome to our Music Matters page! 🎶

Term 4 dates and events

Week 1: Private Music Tuition may resume on the first day (13 October 2022) as per tutor schedules.
Week 2: Years 3-6 Instrumental Program (IP) will resume, as will weekly ensemble rehearsals.
Week 4: Night of Song – Wednesday 2 November 2022 – all choirs will perform.
Week 6: Twilight Concerts (tutor-nominated performances) – Wednesday 16 November 2022 and Aladdin Jr performances.
Week 8: Instrument Stocktake and Maintenance Days – Tuesday 29 November 2022 and Wednesday 30 November 2022 (all instruments to be returned for a day of checking and servicing).
Week 9: Primary and High School end of year presentation events will be in Week 9.

Recent student performances

Our Year 11 Elective Music class presented their Performance Showcase in the Theatre last week. The range of performances was a real pleasure to hear and reflective of lots of hard work and joy in music. Mazel Tov to the students who reprised their assessment performances on piano, voice, viola and guitar, at a small recital for the very appreciative audience of clients at the Burger Centre on 8 September 2022. Special thanks to Mr Adam Majsay for organisation of both the events and piano accompaniment. 

At High School Assembly, we were treated to an uplifting rendition of Alicia Keys’ Fallin’ performed by Mariah Lewy (Year 11).

Last Sunday, Claire Trevelyan held a piano recital for her private students with performances by Eitan Melman and Elke Berger (Year 1), Stevie Zurnamer, Leo Schlesinger and Leo Marishel (Year 2), Sam Hart (Year 4), Julia Manoy (Year 7) and Max Tsipris (Year 8). Kol Hakavod to the students for their work.

Earlier today, we celebrated the biggest audience ever at Grandparents and Friends Day with a crowd-pleasing performance of Aunty Antichinus by a combined Infants Choir and Perlman Strings Ensemble (all K-2). Guests were further entertained during morning tea, by our Senior Jazz Ensemble students, supported by their ensemble conductor, George Nikolopoulos.

HSC performances

Kol Hakavod to our Year 12 HSC music students who are no doubt breathing a sigh of relief with the performance and composition components of their Music HSC successfully completed last week. Congratulations to Rebecca Pillemer, Gabrielle Utian, Myles Cohn and Ben Cohen for their hard work and high-quality performances. I would like to thank their tutors and teachers who have worked with them for so long over the years: Gillian Selikowitz (piano), Andrea Catzel (voice), Stefano Caroleo (percussion), Christina Leonard (saxophone), Stephen Kramer (composition). A very special thank you to Mr Remi Owen and Mr Danny Burley who are their classroom teachers and who have supported them so beautifully over their two-year journey. Having completed the practical component of their Music HSC and having submitted their compositions, these students now have only a written examination to complete during the normal HSC examination period. Good luck to you all! 

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 term via the online forms on our Music Portal Page. The deadline for new enrolments or intention to discontinue for Term 4 passed on 2 September 2022. All students currently receiving private music tuition and students in the K-2 Infant Strings Program will be automatically re-enrolled along with students commencing lessons for the first time. Please contact music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions.  

The schedules for Term 4 will be created at the end of term and emailed during October term break.

Extra-Curricular Music Program

You may be thinking about extra-curricular activities for Term 4. Current memberships will rollover automatically. Please email Ms Springford if you are not currently a member of an ensemble and are interested in signing up. Our weekly ensemble rehearsal schedule describing ensembles in more detail on a second tab. 

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.