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Music Competitions
Upper North Island Big Sing Cadenza
The Fundamentals – Tui Award
Auckland Jazz Competition
Big Band – Most Outstanding Big Band Award
Big Band – Gold Award, selected in Top 4 groups for Jazz Band Finals
North Sea Combo – Gold Award, selected in Top 4 groups for Jazz Combo Finals
Jazz Orchestra – Gold Award
Montreux Combo – Gold Award
Stockholm Combo – Silver Award
Copenhagen Combo – Silver Award
Java Combo – Silver Award
Junior Jazz Orchestra – Bronze Award
Newport Combo – Bronze Award
Leverkusen Combo – Bronze Award
KBB Music Festival
Junior Jazz Orchestra – Highly Commended
Sinfonia Orchestra – Silver Award (and first reserve for Gala Concert)
Symphony Orchestra – Silver Award
Concert Band – Silver Award
Jazz Orchestra – Silver Award
Chamber Orchestra – Gold Award
Big Band – Gold Award, selected in Top 4 Big Bands for Gala Performance
KBB Honours Chamber Orchestra
Lianne Kim
Christine Lin
Lee-Anne Morris
Oliver Roe
William Wei
Joshua Yeh
KBB Honours Concert Band
Rory Fenwick-Rose
Anna Haine
Natania Ling
Natasha Rule
Shane Warman
Anthony Wang
Music Showcases
Concertos and Cookies
Almost 200 students performed to a full house of masked supporters at our annual Concertos & Cookies concert in July. Exercising caution within the Orange Traffic Light framework the 500 mouth-watering cookies (professionally baked, packaged, and labelled as always by our friends in Food Technology) were distributed at the end of the concert for families to enjoy at home. Wind Orchestra, Concert Band, Sinfonia Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra performed an exceptional programme with something to suit all ages and tastes. Wind Orchestra set the stage with a confident and polished delivery of Two Celtic Folk Songs, and the Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Berceuse and Finale from the Firebird Suite was a truly spectacular curtain closer.
A Choral Confection
This sweet evening concert was the perfect way to wrap up the year for our five choral ensembles, an opportunity to showcase repertoire to families and friends, but most of all, a celebration of being able to sing together at school. Repertoire highlights included the premiere of Whakaronga Ake Au by New Zealand composer Robert Wiremu and the Scottish folk song The Parting Glass, but it was hard to beat the audience’s obvious enjoyment of Cambiata’s rendition of the Spiderman Theme and their haunting performance of Loch Lomond. We are delighted to welcome on board Maeve Herd as assistant conductor for Massa di Voce, and alumni student Miles Timmis as the new conductor of Cambiata. Led by Luana Prictor, and supported by accompanists Summer Le Ren, Kun-Yeop Lee, and Catherine Li, our Choral Programme is in excellent hands.
