Chamber Music Congratulations
Congratulations to all our students who participated in the Wellington Regional NZCT Chamber Music Contest held last weekend. Special congratulations go to Lisa Artmann (violin) and Anna Martin (recorder) who make up two thirds of the trio Tre Ragazze –they have been selected for the Regional Final to be held in Napier on June 22nd. Our best wishes go with them for this next stage of the event.
Big Sing
Teal, Teal Voices and the WC and WGC Combined Choir took part in the two day Big Sing Choral Festival last week at the Michael Fowler Centre.
We are very proud of all our choirs and the 110 students who were involved.
Congratulations to Teal Voices for winning the Rachel Tipping Cup for the best performance in category 3 (they sang an arrangement of a French song by Debussy), the Victoria University of Wellington College of Education Cup for the best performance of a NZ Song (for The Tree of Love by Auckland composer David Hamilton), and a certificate for an excellent performance of the second of Eric Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Songs.
Congratulations also to Teal for an adjudicator’s choice certificate for their performance of Waldesnacht by Brahms.
Well done to our student accompanists Charlie Hamblin and Lillian Merrall for their sensitive work on piano and flute.
Smokefree Rockquest Success
Congratulations to Catherine Bullock who won the Solo/Duo section of the Wellington Rockquest with a solo performance of her original song. Catherine has just heard that she also won the Regional APRA Lyric Award for the second year running.
Congratulations also to our other students who entered this competition.