NEWS OCT 2013 Page 8 The inaugural Mod Reads Pages 16–17 Year 9 Wellbeing Camp Pages 29 Mt Hotham Ski Trip in this issue ABODA Music Festival Success! Senior Concert Orchestra performance. Once again, the school’s band and orchestras have put in exceptional performances at the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association (ABODA) Festival, with five outstanding ratings achieved, along with four excellent and one merit commendation. choirs—Chorus Angelicus, Phoenix and Schola Cantori presented concerts as part of the ‘Rising Stars’ Winter Concert series promoted by the City of Perth in the Government House Ballroom and the ‘Concerts at One’ series held in St Georges Cathedral. They also performed at the Opening Ceremony of the WAiTA Conference. Thanks go these students and Celia Christmass for the continued excellence of their presentations. The Intermediate String Quartet of Scott May, James Youll, Jason Michael and Helena Trang have been particularly busy representing Perth Modern School, performing at the Tim Winton and Shaun Tan Award Ceremonies held at the Subiaco Library, at a string workshop held at Churchlands Senior High School and gaining First Place in their category of the North Perth Eisteddfod. Well done to these four students and we look forward to many more fine performances. It is also time to pay tribute to the departing Year 12 music students. Over 50 Year 12 music students were involved in performances at some level. Whilst many of these students have been studying music for the WACE exams, many more have retained their commitment to the performing ensembles and I thank them all and wish them well with their forthcoming exams. Term 4 will see all the 2014 ensembles commence rehearsals as the countdown to the 2014 European Music tour continues. Roger Hey, Head of Music Congratulations to all participating music students and a special thank you to Neil Coy, Amanda Johnson, Phil Hatton, Laurissa McCarthy, Nicole Turner, Nicola Brayshay, Katherine Pearce, Celia Christmass, Benn Hodgkin and Graham Hall who directed the orchestras, bands and guitars to such success. The ABODA success was just one of the musical highlights for the school in Term 3. With seven concerts, four workshops, eight incidental performances and two excursions along with 23 mock WACE Performance Exams and around 300 auditions, music students and staff were kept extremely busy. The term commenced with three performances by the schools’ auditioned
ABODA Music Festival Success! - Perth Modern Schoolperthmodern.wa.edu.au/portals/0/perthmodernschool_news_oct2013.pdf · The Intermediate String Quartet of Scott May, ... commence
