Music Matters

Matters

Annual Music Concert Rehearsal Weekend

Over the weekend of 21-23 July, our annual Music Camp was held at School for over 120 of our musicians. The goal of this Music Camp was to prepare for our upcoming Annual Music Concert, which will be held on 4 August (this Friday!). We all enjoyed a weekend of rehearsals with our fellow musicians, as well as a few activities organised by the music captains. The students all had fun with a bit of friendly competition in the trivia and Kahoot, and a big activity that involved groups of students performing part of the School anthem in different genres, such as rap, pop and hip hop.

One of the highlights of the weekend was the preparation of the massed finale item. This year will be the first year since 2019 we have been able to run the massed finale item, which is traditionally performed at the end of the Annual Concert and involves every student who is part of an ensemble. Most of the students will be singing, with a small handful of students playing in the orchestra. This year, the massed singing item will be Adiemus, a beautiful song written by Karl Jenkins as part of a larger suite. Needless to say, we are all very excited about performing this item, and are sure everyone in the audience will enjoy it.

A massive thanks to all the music staff at Tintern and the parents from Friends of Music who have put in a lot of work to make this weekend become a reality, we are so grateful for their never-ending support. We hope to see everyone at the Annual Music Concert on Friday 4 August, 7.00pm in the CM Wood Centre to witness the amazing performances that our musicians have worked so hard to put together!

Joanne Chang | Instrumental Co-captain 2023

Three Tintern students shine in High School Musical 2

Three of our budding thespians at Tintern spent a good portion of their recent holidays rehearsing High School Music 2 with local amateur theatre company, Fab Nobs Theatre Inc.

Emily Stokes (Year 11, currently studying VCE Solo Music Performance, Drama and Theatre Studies) landed the lead role of Sharpay Evans in the production and gave an amazingly convincing performance of this stuck-up, self-centred character (which is not at all like the real Emily!). The lead characters were ably supported by a small and strong chorus in the show and two chorus members were our very own Jaymie Ashman and Summer Cooke. Congratulations to all three students on developing their stage craft and acting, singing and dancing skills during their winter break.

Emily Stokes

Jaymie Ashman

Summer Cooke

Friends of Music Jazz Night

Tintern’s Friends of Music Jazz Night always is a much-anticipated event on the Tintern musical and social calendar. Our Friends of Music Committee are celebrating their 20^th Jazz Night by using The Roaring 20s as their theme this year. They will decorate the CM Wood Centre and the students will dig out their finery for a great night of music-making and dancing! We are welcoming back to Tintern Ross Irwin (of The Cat Empire fame) and his Dance Band, who promise to have us up on the floor dancing the night away.