Music 2014 announced as a winner in the American Protégé Music Talent Competition, which allows Kayvan to perform in Carnegie Hall in 2015. Performances at the ABODA and classical guitar festivals from Trinity and Trinity/Mercedes ensembles continued their strong form from recent years. Both the Wind orchestra and Wind Ensemble achieved an ‘Outstanding’ grade as did the String Orchestra. The classical guitar ensembles also fared well gaining ‘excellent’ awards in their respective festival.
Dr Robert Braham Director of Music
Miss Athenia Litis Secondary Music Teacher
It was a pleasure to welcome Mrs Ann Clarke on to the music department staff to begin 2014. Ann has slotted straight in to the junior and middle school programs, conducting all the junior choirs and the junior string ensemble. Ann has done an outstanding job and in her first year the junior vocal ensemble was awarded the Primary Liturgical Singing award in the Performing Arts Festival for Catholic Schools and Colleges, also performing at the Perth Concert Hall. I would also like to pay tribute to the Year 12 students who led the music program this year. Adrian Soares’ (12.5) leadership in the instrumental ensembles and his inspiring piano playing, Yew Zhi Tan’s (12.2) calm leadership of the String orchestra, Joshua Adam’s solo singing, his leadership from within the tenors of the Chorale and his cantoring in the cathedral, and Jack Kay’s (12.3) voice in the choirs and his roll as pipe major. Following on from his soloist award in the World Strides Heritage Festival in New York last year, and the solo instrumental award for the CSPAF, Kayvan Gharbi (10.2 cello) has another feather in his solo career cap by being
Mrs Ann Clarke conducts the strings at the Junior and Middle school Music Night
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The Middle School Music Program has seen a further development of both the Kodaly and Orff methodologies in the classroom with impressive results. It has been wonderful to see improvements in students’ musicianship skills and in particular, the standard of singing across the years. As Ella Fitzgerald once said“. The only thing better than singing is more singing”. All Year 7 students have explored a myriad of musical concepts and genres and boy, can these boys sing with gusto! It has been a dynamic and vibrant year of music making alongside Mrs. Ann Clarke, with many delightful moments all round. Highlights of this year include seeing the Year 8s compose their first composition using the computer program, Sibelius. This was in the form of a Percussion duet, which they then performed to the class with a partner. The Year 9s kept us very entertained with their compositions where they were required to create two verses of text and set it to music with added accompaniment! The Year 10s finished the year with an advanced Rondo Composition for keyboard instrument employing the skills of effective harmonic writing and voice leading. It is always remarkable to witness such interesting and inventive ideas from students of all year levels.
Guitar Ensemble 1 perform at the Senior Music Night
