This year, Broughton Anglican College and Wollondilly Anglican College who joined our Intermediate and Senior Concert Bands, creating a combined band of 130 students. This created a very nice, large sound!
The guest conductor for the day was Joan Thorp, who is a well-respected conductor and arranger in Australia. She bought a great energy and musical wisdom to all students, and had an excellent way to positively encourage our young musicians.
After 3 solid rehearsal sessions with Joan, all students had a dinner break with beautiful burgers provided by Mrs Ritano’s Kitchen. The students then put on a one hour concert to showcase their day’s effort to their families and friends. Most of the pieces were sight-read and learned on the day, which is an excellent effort. In addition to the mega-concert band performing 4 pieces, each school performed 2 pieces with their individual College concert bands.
Overall, it was a very successful day, and all students had a great time creating music and making new friends.
Well done everyone!
Mr Byron Mark
Manager of Ensembles
