Other Competitions • In the AHIGS Festival of Speech our Junior team debated an impressive 5 rounds in 24 hours in a knockout style competition leading all the way to the Grand Final. • In Public Speaking, Georgia Hinds (Year 8) won the Junior Division of the NSW State Finals of the Rostrum Voice of Youth Public Speaking Competition. • Isabella Monardo (Year 8) competed in the State Final of the Legacy Junior Public Speaking Award. • In the Term 3 holidays Isabella Monardo, Georgia Hinds, Charlotte McAloon and Lily Fuller (Year 8) participated in the YMCA Junior Parliament. Here the girls spent time at both camp and NSW State Parliament drafting policies and discussing Matters of Public Importance (MPI’s). • Georgia Hinds and Isabella Monardo competed in the finals of the UN Youth Voice NSW Public Speaking Competition. Isabella was successful and won the Grand Final of this competition. • Our Speech and Awards students; Caitlin Mulveney, Xavier Zuccon, Natasha Ong, Alice Hodgson and Lara Bartos competed in the Trinity College London exams with fantastic results.
CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS Music At Kincoppal – Rose Bay we continued with our inclusive “all comers” policy, and the belief that our KRB community is strengthened by music involvement, by encouraging and enabling all students to participate in music making and study. • All students attended performances at school and the City Recital Hall by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Oz Opera and Musica Viva. The Elective Music students also attended evening performances of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Meet the Music Concert Series and two Opera Performances. 12
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• At the fortnightly Senior School assemblies, students performed a diverse repertoire of solos and small ensembles. • Our annual “Night of Song” in May showcased choral solo, Junior, Senior, Chamber Choir works and combined choir items. Guest soloist was Maia Andrews, a 2007 alumna, graduate of UNSW and a singer who is now in the “Young Artist Program” at Pacific Opera. • Year 5 and Year 6 students performed at the IPSHA Music Festival in the Sydney Town Hall in August and joined the massed combined choir of over 500 young voices conducted by KRB Choral Director, Mr Mark Stubley. • At the Senior School Chapel Concert held in August, we heard solo performances from the HSC Music candidates as well as ensembles of choirs, orchestra, strings and chamber groups. • In early Term 4 a Gala Concert was presented featuring Junior and Senior student ensembles as well as world class professionals Dimity Hall, Julian Smiles and Amelia Farrugia. • Musicians and their families celebrated the year in Music at the Annual Music Dinner. The “Friends of the Music Department” formed from within the P & F has also supported and encouraged Music at KRB. • A Junior School Band was formed in 2013 and a band program commenced. These students, learning a variety of band instruments in a group lesson, had their debut performance at the Gala Concert. • Throughout the year, KRB Accomplishment Music teachers have regularly presented Twilight Studio Concerts for the families and friends of students studying with our peripatetic music tutors. • Auditions for our 2014 Musical, Once on This Island were held in Term 4. A cast of more than 65 students was successful in the auditions, and they were joined by boys from Cranbrook, Waverley and Riverview.