Australian Music Day at MLC School

We were fortunate to host absolute music royalty here at MLC School for Australian Music Day.

Our music students, as well as hundreds of guests from other schools, were treated to insights, tips and tricks from artists like DOBBY, Elena Kats-Chernin and Alex Pozniak as well as saxophone virtuoso Nicholas Russoniello and music educator and beloved ex-MLC School Head of Bands Richard Coward.

DOBBY gave inspiring advice and shared about how he weaves perspectives from his Filipino Aboriginal heritage into his signature “drapping” (drumming/rapping) style and had students engaged in fiery rap battles. Elena Kats-Chernin took student compositions and remixed and tweaked them live in front of the audience with Nomad String Quartet quick to catch all the changes that were thrown their way. The quartet, with our own Head of Strings James Larsen, handled the heat like pros.

Students lined up for autographs at the end of the day with many mentioning a newfound inspiration for upcoming composition tasks in the HSC and IB.

– Alice Chance
Head of Composition
Old Girl (2011)

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