For the first time as part of the Year 4 Band Program, we had a ‘Meet the Composer’ day, where the composer of one of the pieces they are studying visited the College to deliver a special guest conducting workshop with the students during their afternoon band time.
Mr Lachlan Hamilton, composer of ‘Riding Through the Wild West’ was very impressed with our students and thoroughly enjoyed conducting his piece with our students. Many of the students embraced the occasion and wore fancy cowboy hats to be in theme with the piece, which was great to see. It was also great to hear many appropriate questions being asked towards the end, which gave a nice insight into Mr Hamilton’s compositional process. At the conclusion of the workshop, students were lucky enough to line up and receive an autograph from Mr Hamilton too!
Congratulations to all Year 4 students, and we look forward to seeing some young composers emerging from Thomas Hassall!
Mr Byron Mark
Director of Ensembles