Music news

Following the success of the Senior A Cappella Choir at the Waverley Eisteddfod, St Kilda Road music students have also been awarded The Annual Award for Choral Excellence – a prize for the best choir from all the choral sections in the competition. The campus also had several groups at Ballarat for the recent Royal South Street Competitions. Not only were they great ambassadors for the College, performing at their best, but they were able to hear some superb playing from other schools too. The Big Band picked up an Honourable Mention and the Senior Symphonic Wind Ensemble was awarded a very creditable 3rd place in the Advanced Section of Symphonic Bands.

String players from across the College gathered at the Glen Waverley campus for a whole day workshop, sponsored by The Society for the Arts, with a rock violinist Mark Wood, who has performed with such greats as Billy Joel, Celine Dion, and Paul McCartney. He is a performer, inventor, Emmy award winning composer and inspiring music educator, and the rock strings concert, performed by a combined string orchestra at the end of the day, really “wowed” the audience of parents.

At Deakin Edge, Federation Square, the Senior Symphonic Wind Ensemble, String Orchestra and Festival Orchestra farewelled our Year 12 instrumentalists with a concert, which included a performance of the Prokofiev piano concerto, with Ann Nguyen as soloist.