Music

Ms Shannon Tobin & Mrs Sue Figliano

The beginning of 2021 has seen a flurry of performance opportunities for our music students. At the Academic Awards and Honours Ceremony at City Hall, 87 students performed in four ensembles: Chorale, Four Seasons String Quartet, Paganini Strings and Symphonic Winds. What a wonderful opportunity this presented for the girls to perform in such a prestigious venue with a capacity audience! It has been over a year since students have been able to perform to such a large audience and the standard of performance was outstanding. All the students and their conductors should be congratulated on their efforts, especially being so early in the year.

There have also been many other opportunities for the St. Aidan’s musicians to perform throughout Term 1. The newly formed Junior String Quartet have been busy playing at the Years 5-7 Academic Awards Ceremony, Open Morning and the Mother Emma Service at St. John’s Cathedral. The Year 4 Music classes sang an Irish Blessing for the Year 6 Leadership Eucharist and there were two beautiful piano solos at the leadership service and the Year 5-7 Academic Awards played by Mira Wang-Lee and Yolanda Wang. To add to the ambience of our Ash Wednesday service, Ensemble Volar sang a rendition of Hosea. Open Morning also provided an opportunity to showcase the girl’s talents and hard work in Paganini Strings, Con Brio Band and Chorale.

Finally, but not least several students in both the Junior and Senior School signed up to perform at the Senior and Junior School Performing Arts Recitals this term. Many of these girls have performed before, however there were many students who played and sang for the first time. The girls should be incredibly proud of how they conducted themselves and succeeded in the delivery of their performances. It was wonderful to have a range of year levels involved from Year 1 girls all the way through to the senior students, with diverse repertoire and instruments. It is a tremendous beginning to the year for the music department and can’t wait to see how the girls flourish as the year continues.