SHEP Darling Downs

STATE HONOURS ENSEMBLE PROGRAM

Darling Downs 2020 Grand Finalé Concert Sunday 18 October 2020 Centenary Heights State High School

WELCOME Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and Centenary Heights State High School welcomes you to the fourth annual State Honours Ensemble Program Darling Downs. SHEP Darling Downs gives young musicians the opportunity to work with a team of eminent Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University conductors. Participants have travelled from throughout the region for this innovative and intensive weekend program.

Through Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Open Conservatorium seeks to make quality music performance and educational activities accessible throughout Queensland by providing a range of initiatives in partnership with regional schools, instrumental and classroom music teachers.

Thanks to our valued partnership with Centenary Heights State High School, Principal Maryanne Walsh and Staff, SHEP Darling Downs will continue to develop further opportunities for young musicians in the coming years.

Queensland Conservatorium thanks State Honours Ensemble Program Darling Downs 2020 participants, their parents/caregivers and families, conductors, teachers, secondary educational institutions throughout Queensland, Education Queensland and Griffith University staff for their continuing support of the State Honours Ensemble Program in Brisbane, the Darling Downs, Far North Queensland and North Queensland, Central Queensland and Wide Bay.

SHEP DARLING DOWNS GRAND FINALÉ CONCERT REPERTOIRE

will be selected from the following

VOCAL ENSEMBLE

The Moon Is Distant from the Sea David N. Childs Sit Down your Rockin' the Boat Frank Loesser arr. Mark Brymer Living with Shadows Harley Mead Famine Song Vida arr. Matthew Culloton The Lily And The Rose Bob Chilcot

Conductor Kate Albury Accompanist Melissa Buchholz City Called Heaven arr. Josephine Poelinitz A Red, Red, Rose (1) (Four Robert Burns Ballads) James Mulholland Mary did you know?

Buddy Green & Mark Lowry

arr. David Angerman & Joseph M. Martin

STRING ENSEMBLE

Forever Joyful Entrance of the Queen of Sheba

Celtic Dreaming and Dance Fantasy on a Japanese Folk Song

Conductor Gwyn Roberts Over the sea to Skye arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle Keith Sharp Shanghai Hornpipe La Follia Arcangelo Corelli arr. Stephen Chin

Brian Balmages George Frideric Handel arr. H. B. Fisher Stephen Chin Brian Balmages

WIND ENSEMBLE As Summer was Just Beginning Larry D. Daehn March Bou shu Satoshi Yagisawa Death by tango Edward Fairlie Tricycle Andrew Boysen Jr Rollo takes a walk David Maslanka

Conductor Stefanie Smith Mock Morris Percy Grainger trans. Joseph Kreines A Welsh Rhapsody Clare Grundman Fortress Frank Ticheli

VOCAL ENSEMBLE SOPRANO

Madeleine Anderson - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Thea Comerford - Toowoomba Anglican School Courtney Dukes - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Mehar Fegan - Toowoomba Anglican School Kyra Ford - Harristown State High School Charlotte Hanson - Downlands College Madison Kelly - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Charlotte Lacey - Toowoomba Anglican School Camillo Lanzafame - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Sophie Luhrs - Fairholme College Hayley Lutvey - Centenary Heights State High School

ALTO

Hamish Cover - Dalby State High School Aliandra Pedernal - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Seaton Robinson - Downlands College Abigail Schloss - Chinchilla Christian College Angela Taylor - Chinchilla Christian College Isabella Tyrrell - Downlands College

TENOR Nicholas Ardika - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Joshua Brown - Toowoomba Grammar School Duncan Clews - Downlands College Walter Jardine - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Patrick McCarthy-Cole - Downlands College

BARITONE William Lydement - Downlands College

WIND ENSEMBLE FLUTE

Sarah Briese - Dalby State High School Katelyn Burton - Mary MacKillop Catholic College (Highfields) Melissa Burton - Dalby State High School Sophie Evans - Home School Melissa Gillbard - Concordia Lutheran College Sam Lawrence - Toowoomba Grammar School Erin Redgwell - Chinchilla Christian College Haylee Silver - The Glennie School Jeiron Yong - Toowoomba Anglican School

CLARINET

Gabrielle Clark - Clifton State High School Kate Healy - The Glennie School Harry Lester - Toowoomba Grammar School Lauren Lester - The Glennie School Amelia Rawson - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Matthew Routley - Dalby State High School Ella Schultz - Dalby State High School Gabi Waterfall - The Glennie School

BASS CLARINET

Jordan Conway - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Ryan Murphy - Toowoomba Grammar School

BASSOON

BARITONE SAXOPHONE

Angus Bennetts - Downlands College Lily Maughan - Toowoomba Anglican School

TRUMPET Hunter Cover - Dalby State High School Zachariah Gerke - Chinchilla State High School Mitchell Sternes - Dalby State High School Alyssa Young - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba)

FRENCH HORN Ella-Jewel Findlay - Toowoomba Anglican School Hannah Waterfall - The Glennie School

TROMBONE

Ryan Dolbel - Chinchilla Christian College

EUPHONIUM

Brendan Adams - Downlands College Alex Tini - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba)

TUBA Harriet Dummett - The Glennie School

Joseph Routley - Dalby State High School

PERCUSSION

ALTO SAXOPHONE

Grant Dolbel - Chinchilla Christian College Kiara Madden - Concordia Lutheran College Ned Murry - Clifton State High School Myles Robinson - Downlands College

Jessika Bliesner - Dalby State High School James Crothers - Toowoomba Grammar School Seth Gerke - Chinchilla State High School

TENOR SAXOPHONE

Kartia Chin - The Glennie School Belita Welsh - Downlands College

STRING ENSEMBLE VIOLIN

Melissa Buddle - Caloundra State High School Leora Dowling - Rangeville State School Peyton Horn - St John's School (Roma) Bethany Prentice - Chinchilla Christian College Claudia Russell - Downlands College Hannah Smith - Centenary Heights State High School Ebbeny Williams-Cherry - Fairholme College

VIOLA

Vivien Forbes - Downlands College Joseph Watson - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba)

CELLO

Emma Anderson - The Glennie School Hayley Buddle - Caloundra State High School Grace de la Croix - Downlands College Riley Furse - St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) Mabel Galbraith - Fairholme College

DOUBLE BASS Louise Anderson - The Glennie School

CREDITS

Acting Director Professor Gemma Carey Deputy Director (Engagement) Associate Professor Peter Morris Clinician & Conductor - Wind Ensemble Stefanie Smith Clinician & Conductor - String Ensemble Gwyn Roberts Clinician & Conductor - Vocal Ensemble Kate Albury Accompanist - Vocal Ensemble Melissa Buchholz Manager - Open Conservatorium Jason Budge Project Support - SHEP Darling Downs Yvonne Moore Russell Sullivan Bronwen Mowbray Heidi Law Administration Officer - Open Conservatorium Lisa Dart Administration Officer - Young Conservatorium Kevin Edwards Administration Officer - SHEP Michelle Stewart Music Librarian - Open Conservatorium Bianca Murphy

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Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, and pays respect to the Elders, past, present and emerging.

SHEP DARLING DOWNS - SCHOOLS REPRESENTED Caloundra State High School Centenary Heights State High School Chinchilla Christian College Chinchilla State High School Clifton State High School Concordia Lutheran College Dalby State High School Downlands College Fairholme College Harristown State High School Home School Mary MacKillop Catholic College (Highfields) Rangeville State School St John's School (Roma) St Joseph's College (Toowoomba) The Glennie School Toowoomba Anglican School Toowoomba Grammar School