Duncraig’s Year 10 and 11 students shone on stage this week at the 2019 MaDD Night Production in their Drama, Music and Dance performances.
Category: Music
MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCE
November 11, 2019Duncraig Secondary’s 2019 MaDD night has had an update to its title with the introduction of Dance! Join us on Tuesday 19 November at 7pm to see a showcase of Year 10 and 11 solo Music performances, Year 10 student-devised Drama performances and show-stopping routines performed by the St Stephen’s School Dance Company.
STRINGS ATTACHED
September 19, 2019St Stephen’s School was proudly represented by three Classical Guitar ensembles at the recent WA Schools Classical Guitar Festival. Congratulations to our groups who were great ambassadors for the School!
Carramar – Secondary Guitar Ensemble achieved an ‘Excellent’ for their category.
Duncraig – Junior Guitar Ensemble achieved an ‘Outstanding’ for their category.
Duncraig – Senior Guitar Ensemble achieved an ‘Excellent’ for their category.
TUTTI FESTIVA
August 7, 2019During the holidays a group of our musicians travelled to China to take part in Tutti Festiva, working in masterclasses and performing in festival honour groups with students from Australian and Chinese schools. As well as creating lifelong memories (such as performing on the Great Wall of China and listening to the Beijing Opera) the group was able to contribute to a local charity funding the education for children of migrant workers.
China Music Tour
July 29, 2019During the holidays a group of our musicians travelled to China to rehearse and perform in “Tutti Festiva”. http://www.tuttibeijing.com/ They spent hours honing their own music skills in masterclasses as well as performing in festival honour groups with students from other Australian and Chinese schools. The festival was held at Kaiwen Academy – a new K-12 school built to educate 2000 students…as well as amazing Performing Arts facilities it also has an ice hockey rink… http://cy.kaiwenacademy.cn/en/
Educationally, this tour was an incredible opportunity for our musicians to reach the next level with their musicianship. The Tutti faculty included professional musicians working at elite levels as professors, conductors, composers and performers in Northern American, Chinese and Australian universities.
As well as creating lifelong memories such as performing on “The Great Wall of China” and listening to Beijing Opera and other musical performances from the faculty, our students, staff and school contributed to “The Dandelion Project”. This charity funds the education costs (including music) for the children of migrant workers as they are ineligible to access an education in Chinese schools. Overall, we were part of a $13500 donation!
Andre and I loved taking these wonderful musicians away to China. They were superb ambassadors for St Stephen’s School. We are very proud of what they achieved and we are excited to see how their experiences will feed back into the Music program. We would also like to acknowledge the wonderful work of Don Candy, who prepared the Classical guitars so well for the tour.
Please enjoy these photos:)
Mrs Andrea Stimpson – Director of Music
Mr Andre Bourgault – Music Teacher
BON VOYAGE
July 5, 2019As we look towards the school holidays, we bid farewell to two tour groups taking the world by storm! The Indonesian Service Tour leaves to host cultural lessons, teach English and take part in activities with students and families from the Bali Life Foundation’s school for underprivileged kids.
Meanwhile, the International Music Tour sees a cross-campus group of Secondary students travel to Beijing, China for the Tutti World Youth Music Festival. Students will take part in rehearsals, masterclasses, concerts, sightseeing and will even perform on the Great Wall of China!
FREE Music Workshops
July 3, 2019
SYMPHONIC SHOWCASE
June 19, 2019Showcasing chorales, choirs, orchestras and ensembles, our talented students shone at the Duncraig Junior and Middle School Concerts on Friday. With a lunchtime and evening performance, audiences were delighted by the dedication our students have put into music so far this year.
NIGHT TO REMEMBER
May 21, 2019In an evening of jubilation, the Senior Music Concert brought the St Stephen’s School community together to celebrate the career of Mrs Marion Jamison. Marion is retiring after 24 years at St Stephen’s, with Friday’s concert seeing past and current students come together to thank Marion for her lasting impact on their lives.
Thanks for the memories, Mrs J!
Music Camp 2018
June 14, 2018
The hard working Music staff and tutors returned from camp yesterday afternoon!
Lots of worthwhile rehearsal took place.
Here’s Mr Bourgault and the Swing band in action:
“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.” – Psalm 95:1