Music Matters

Music Matters

2022 SCEGGS Eisteddfod Highlights Concerts – Friday 25 March Great Hall

Come and celebrate the musical talents of the 2022 SCEGGS Eisteddfod!  TWO concerts will be held this Friday to celebrate the musical talents in our school community:

  • Primary Highlights concert: Friday 25 March at 4:30pm
  • Secondary Highlights concert: Friday 25 March at 6.00pm

A variety of awards are made at these concerts:

  1. Outstanding Musician of the Primary School/Secondary School
  2. Wran Prize for Up and Coming Vocalist (Secondary only)
  3. Acknowledgement Awards

We look forward to your attendance at the Highlights Concerts.

Musicale 1 “Of Foreign Lands and Places” – Tuesday 29 March 6pm

You are invited to the Musicale 1 Concert held next Tuesday 6pm 29 March at the Great Hall. 

The theme of the concert is “Of Foreign Lands and Places” where a representation of musical ensembles from the SCEGGS Ensembles program will take you on a musical journey.

The concert will feature the following ensembles:

  • Year 7 Choir
  • Clarion Band
  • Primary Percussion Ensemble
  • Chamber Strings
  • Bugles Band
  • Cantare
  • Sinfonietta
  • Primary Cello Ensemble
  • Contemporary Strings

Come on a musical journey with us next Tuesday night – we will depart at 6pm!

Pedal Harp – Ilaria Roncolato 

Last week, the Music Department welcomed the arrival of a concert pedal harp!  The harp is a loan instrument from The Scots College, and this was organised for our Year 10 Elective Music student Ilaria Roncolato.  Ilaria has learnt the harp since she was 6 years old and has upgraded to a concert pedal harp. This harp will stay at school so that Ilaria can easily access an instrument for Amati rehearsals as well as class performances.  Thank you to Mrs Anne Sweeney (Director of Strings) and Mr Owen Torr (Harp tutor at The Scots College) to facilitate this loan.  You can hear Ilaria play the pedal harp here.


ARCO – Voyage of Musical Discovery “Design & Innovation”

Year 10 Elective Music and Year 11 Music 2 students attended the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra on Monday 21 March at City Recital Hall.  Students were treated to a performance of Edward Elgar’s “Serenade for Strings” Op. 20 and Gustav Holst’s “Saint Paul’s Suite in C Major” Op. 29 No. 2. 

Students particularly enjoyed the second half of the concert that featured the piano music by prominent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin.  The program for this part also featured pieces of music that were written as a tribute to eccentric French composer Erik Satie.  After the death of Satie, his friends discovered over 40 unposted love letters that he had written to his first love.  The music that Elena Kats-Chernin composed were inspired by what these letters.

The repertoire from this concert is supporting the Year 10 Elective topic 19th Century Music (Romantic) and 11 Music 2’s mandatory study of “Music of 1600-1900”.  Students were accompanied by their class teachers Ms Chow and Ms Holmes.

 

K-2 Assembly Performances

It has been lovely to feature solo musical performers in K-2 Assembly this term. Girls gain valuable such performance skills when they play in front of an appreciative audience in a familiar environment.

Congratulations to the following girls who have played beautifully at the K-2 Assembly this term:

Piano – Olivia Tan, Defne Aslan, Sophia Prodromou, Ivy Zhang, Skye Huilgol

Violin – Ivy Zhang (pictured), Hana Yao, Ava Yusiw

Cello – Georgina Sharp

Pauline Chow
Head of Music