KEEPING CONNECTED DURING LOCKDOWN
MUSIC Friday Performance Class A staple on the Music Academy calender, the Friday Performance classes continued via Zoom to motivate Music Academy students to keep up regular practice.
Music Competitions
Woodwind Scales and Arpeggios Battle
The Music Academy held several competitions during lockdown to create motivation and fun for music students: The Scale and Arpeggio ‘Championship’ for Academy String players and the Scale and Arpeggio ‘Battle’ for Academy Woodwind players.
Woodwind players submitted their recordings of scales, studies and arpeggios. The finalists from each division made new recordings which were adjudicated by Wendy Clarke, Associate Principal Flautist of the MSO.
The Scale and Arpeggio Championship for Academy String players String players competed against each other live on Zoom. Their mission was to perform their scales as accurately and cleanly as possible. It was a brilliant spectacle with many students performing better on the day than expected. RESULTS: Winners of the Upper Strings Division Leo Qi (Year 6) and Steven Wang (Year 9) (performing their Galamian accelerated scales at a mind blowing 110 BPM) Winner of the Lower Strings Division Nicholas Branson (Year 7)
RESULTS: Winner of the Woodwind Scale Battle: Freddy Branson (Year 10) Highly Commended Rhys Campbell (Year 12) Wendy Clarke was impressed with Freddy and Rhys’ accuracy of pitch and evenness of tone, particularly in the higher registers. The Watson Report In a rare collaboration between the Sports and Music Academy, Mr Jamie Watson, Director of the Sports Academy, provided a humorous commentary on the results of both competitions, which can be viewed here:
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Highly Commended Daniel Feng (Year 7)
Spectemur | Issue 3 - 2020
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