Primary & Secondary Music

Lux Strings at St Vincent’s Hospital

Last Wednesday, Lux Strings were given the amazing opportunity to play some of our pieces to the staff and patients at St Vincent’s Hospital. After a short walk to the hospital, we were welcomed by Sarah Korbell, the hospital’s Patient Experience and Consumer Engagement Manager. During our time there, we were able to play to many different people, with people walking in and out of the hospital, and some even sitting down and watching us play for the entire time. After our mix of The Girl from Ipanema, Here Comes the Sun, Pachelbel’s Canon, and the spectacular Vivaldi’s Summer, to name a few, we were gifted with huge smiles from the people in the hospital. Many people came up to us at the end of our performance and congratulated and thanked us for our work, including a lovely woman who gave each and every one of us a fist-bump! Thank you so much to Mrs Sweeney, Eliza Sdraulig and the staff at St Vincent’s Hospital for giving us this incredible opportunity. We would love to do it again!

Gracie Dunlop
Year 10

Dear Evan Hansen – Excursion & Masterclass

Last Friday, elective music students had the immense privilege of participating in a workshop with Verity Hunt-Ballard and Georgia Laga’aia, two of the cast members from Sydney Theatre Company’s current production of Dear Evan Hansen. As this is Georgia’s professional theatre debut, she gave a lot of interesting insights as to what it has been like working with such a highly motivated and experienced cast. This contrasted to Verity’s experiences, having a professional theatre career expanding over several decades. We learnt about what it was like to be in a professional production, as well as having the opportunity to sing for them. Having seen their production the previous night, we were all fangirling at the opportunity to learn about the lives of full-time actors, and hopefully take away some key ideas about musical theatre. Personally, through singing for them and guided by Verity, I discovered more about using physical gestures within a song, as well as healthy belting. As someone who has loved musical theatre as long as she can remember, this was such a valuable experience to learn about my potential within the world of musical theatre, as well as technical aspects of singing.

Josie Grayden
Year 9

Festival of Lessons and Carols

• Primary students involved: Years 5 & 6 Choirs (all students in Year 5 & 6) & Cantare
• Secondary students involved: Choir, Madrigal Ensemble and Amati Strings

Further details can be found in these notes Primary and Secondary. 

Noël! Noël! 2024

We are delighted to offer $20 tickets for students to the upcoming concert series, Noël! Noël! at City Recital Hall for the Thursday 12 and Saturday 14 December, 7.30pm performances. 

Find more information here.

Beyond the Green Gate

We love hearing about ways our musicians are involved in music-making outside of school. Please send details to Heidi Jones.

Clipboard

All co-curricular music ensemble schedules are now available on Clipboard. If you haven’t set this up yet, please follow the provided instructions. For any issues with Clipboard set-up, contact our Music Administration Assistant Miss Alice Kotowicz.

Upcoming Events:

Term 4

Heidi Jones
Head of Music (Co-curricular)