Secondary Music

Carmina Burana – Choral Collaboration with Sydney Grammar School

Date: Thursday 16 May – Combined Rehearsal 2 & Performance

Venue: John Vallance Hall, Yurong St, Darlinghurst

Time: Meet at 5.00pm to get marked off the roll. Rehearsal will run until 6.15pm with the concert beginning at 6.30pm and ending at 8.30pm.

Transport: Some students are choosing to study in the library and then walk to Grammar. Otherwise, public or parent transport to the rehearsal and then parent pick up from John Vallance Hall in Yurong St, Darlinghurst after the concert at 8.30pm.

Concert Attire: Full winter uniform including blazer and tights.

Musicale 2

We are excited to announce that Musicale 2 will be taking place on Wednesday 5 June, with Katie Noonan as our guest artist.

There will be many opportunities for our students to be involved and celebrate the musical talents of our community as outlined below:

Secondary Ensembles Performing

Year 7 Choir (all students in Year 7), Choir, Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Madrigal Ensemble, Year 9 Rock Band, Secondary Jazz Combo, Holst Wind Ensemble, Basie Jazz Band, Amati Strings, Lux Strings.

Further details can be found in this note. 

Songwriting & Musicale 2

During the week of Musicale 2, we would like to feature a songwriter from each year group, with one or more songs to be performed in the Musicale. If you would like to be considered, please submit a draft of your song (it may still be unfinished) to Mr Gresham by Friday 24 May. Songwriting lessons are available for free on a Thursday afternoon, though these are not compulsory for consideration. Please come and speak to Mr Gresham if you have any questions.

Australian School Band and Orchestra Festival

Several SCEGGS ensembles have been enrolled to perform in the Australian School Band and Orchestra (ASBOF) Festival this year. The Festival is a non-competitive event and rather than being ranked, all ensembles received a Gold, Silver or Bronze rating which reflects their level of achievement for the particular event level in which they have performed. All events are adjudicated by professional musicians and music educators. ASBOF is a wonderful opportunity for our SCEGGS ensembles to perform on stage, to hear ensembles from other schools and to receive inspirational advice and performance tips from the adjudicators.

For more information about ASBOF click here.

130 Years of SCEGGS – Hope Concert 2025

In 2025, SCEGGS will celebrate 130 years. The Music Department has the privilege of creating a concert to celebrate this milestone.

The concert will be held in the Sydney Town Hall on Monday 23 June 2025 and the theme for the concert is ‘Hope’. 

Hope involves optimistic thinking and focusing on good things to come. We will collect and commission works that reflect the theme of hope.

But we want you to be involved. We want to know what it is you – the students, staff, parents, and old girls of SCEGGS – are hoping for.

Some examples might include equality, reconciliation, better care of the environment, and peace. Your responses will be shared with composers, and commissioned works will be created that reflect the things that the SCEGGS community is hoping for. You have 140 characters to let us know what it is you are hoping for. Go!

Term 2 Secondary Piano Concert

Thursday 13 June at 1.10pm in the Great Hall.

All pianists are invited to perform a short, well-prepared solo. Pieces that exceed 4 minutes will be cut.

Please click here to complete the form and note the closing date carefully as no late entries will be accepted.

Family and friends are most welcome to attend.

Clipboard

All co-curricular music ensemble schedules are now available on Clipboard. If you haven’t set this up yet, please follow these instructions.

If you are having any issues with Clipboard set-up, please contact our Music Administration Assistant, Miss Alice Kotowicz.

Date for Your Diary 

Term 2

Elective Music Performances

Heidi Jones
Head of Music (Co-curricular)