Music Matters

Musicale 3 – Monday 29 August Great Hall

The Music department will be presenting Musicale 3 next Monday 29 August as TWO separate concerts.

Primary Concert will commence at 4.30pm

• String Power
• Primary Cello Ensemble
• Ukulele Ensemble
• Chamber Strings
• Primary Jazz Combo
• Cantare

Secondary Concert will commence at 6pm

• Secondary Jazz Combo
• Chapter 5 – Rock band
• Year 10 Class Ensemble
• Woodwind Ensemble
• Music Extension Ensemble
• Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

We look forward to sharing our performances with you next Monday.

Congratulations! Festival on Forbes Music Performances

Congratulations to all the musicians who performed with their ensembles at the Festival on Forbes.  Well done to the girls in:

• Beginners Band
• Primary Jazz Combo
• Bugles
• Secondary Jazz Combo
• Clarion Band
• Holst Wind Band
• Basie Jazz Band
• Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (CVE)
• String Power
• Stringalong
• Sinfonietta
• Chamber Strings
• Amati Strings
• Lux Strings
• Maca Rock Band

Your performances helped to add to the celebration of the day and a smile to many faces.  Special thank you also to members of the Music staff, tutors and assistants who provided additional support. 

Congratulations – Year 11 Music 1 and 2 Concert

Congratulations to the students from Year 11 Music 1 and Music 2 who performed last Thursday 18 August, 4pm in the Great Hall. It was a wonderful afternoon of music with students from both courses presenting a variety of solo musical items.

Special thank you to Ms Alison Ryan (Music 1) and to Ms Heidi Jones who carefully rehearsed with each student for the event.  Well done to all students, it was great to hear your performances live on stage!

Combined Concert with Shore School – Choir and Madrigal Ensemble

SCEGGS’ Choir and Madrigal Ensemble are soon to be performing with choirs from Shore School in North Sydney.  This collaboration will culminate in a performance in the Smith Auditorium at Shore School on the evening of Tuesday 13 September.  This opportunity to perform choral music with tenors and basses allows us to present the magnificent Vivaldi Gloria – one of the great classics in choral music.  The girls are quite taken with this music and are very excited to be singing with their friends from Shore. 

Parents and friends are warmly invited to this concert.  Preparation for this concert will include two rehearsals on site at Shore:

Rehearsal 1 at Shore: Wednesday 7 September

Rehearsal 2 at Shore: Monday 12 September

Concert: Tuesday 13 September

Information have been sent to families with details for both rehearsals and the concert at Shore.

The girls are loving this music and are so looking forward to sharing the delights of Vivaldi with an enthusiastic audience.

Ms Allison Harrigan
Director of Choral

SCEGGS Voices for STC’s “Chalkface”

Eight students from Year 5 were invited to take part in a recording for Sydney Theatre Company’s upcoming production of “Chalkface”.  The composer for this production Ms Jessica Dunn came to record the students at the Diana Bowman Centre on Monday 22 August.  Sydney Theatre Company would credit SCEGGS in the play acknowledgements.

The girls had a wonderful time recording the songs for the production.  You can find out more about the production via this link to STC’s website.

Well done girls and thank you to Ms Lanneke Jones for organising this amazing opportunity.

Primary Piano Concert – Thursday 1 September Great Hall

Invitation opened to ALL Primary pianists to sign up to perform in the upcoming Primary Piano Concert. 

The concert will take place Week 7 – 1 September, 3.30pm – 4.30pm.

Parents and friends are welcome to attend.

To enrol your daughter in the concert please complete this form by Friday 26 August (Week 6).

We look forward to seeing you there!

ASBOF Competition – Important Change of Venue for Bugles

The ASBOF competition for SCEGGS ensembles will begin this Sunday 28 August. 

*Change of venue for Bugles

Please note that Bugles will now perform at the University of NSW’s Sir John Clancy Auditorium.  Students will need to arrive at the venue by 9.45am.

Tickets for the ASBOF Competition are now on sale.  The tickets for this event (25% discount when purchasing online) can be accessed via the ASBOF website.

The ASBOF Web App is also accessible via the website and gives parents access to the full Festival Draw.

Please see below for the information and ensembles that are involved in this year’s competition:

Sunday 28 August – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

• Sinfonietta – arrival time of 8.30am
• Stringalong – arrival time of 9.35am

Sunday 28 August – University of NSW’s Sir John Clancy Auditorium

• Bugles – arrival time of 9:45am

Sunday 11 September – Sydney Conservatorium of Music

• Amati – arrival time of 10am
• Holst Wind Band – arrival time of 1pm

Term 3 Calendar of Music Events

Pauline Chow
Head of Music