School   Band   News

It is so wonderful to see our children back to face-to-face band rehearsals last week and our week was buzzing with new enrolments, auditions, a very well attended Band Information Night, and instrument pick-ups.

Our director and our wonderful parent volunteers have been super busy scheduling and getting your instruments ready, organising your child(ren)’s tutors, and carefully navigating the current COVID-19 rules. A big “thank you” to them! 

Please see upcoming key dates below:

Key Dates:

Please note the week starting 7 February is week 3.

Regular band rehearsal times

Training Band: Fridays        8.00 am – 8.50 am

Junior Concert Band:           Mondays 10.55 am – 11:45 am

and Thursdays 8.00 am – 8.50am

Concert Band:                  Mondays 8.00 am - 8.50 am

and Thursdays 12.20 pm – 1:10 pm

Senior Concert Band:         Tuesdays 8.00 am – 8.50 am

and Thursdays 2.00 pm – 2.55 pm

Jazz Band:                      Thursdays 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Orchestra:                       Wednesdays 8.00 am – 8.50 am

* All rehearsals will be at the Music Room.

Additional Training Band and new students Try-out

Students who were in year 2 in 2021 and have missed out on the Band Try-Out in Term 4 last year or are new to the school can still try out in Term 1. Try-outs will take place between 8:50-9:00 in the mornings of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in week 3.

If you haven’t registered your child for try-out, please follow the link below and register your child via “New Student Register” if you are new to the portal or login and choose “Add a child” if you already have an account. Once your child is registered, we will contact you with an allocated try-out date and time.

https://portal.msmusic.com.au/artarmonmusic

Orchestra Audition

Students who are interested in joining Orchestra are still welcome to audition. At this stage, due to no cross-cohorting rule between Stage 2 and Stage 3 students, we will only be auditioning Stage 3 (year 5 and year 6) students.

A big thanks and apology for those who expressed interest from year 4.

For the audition, no preparation will be required. The audition will involve a sight-reading exercise only.

To ensure we allocate enough time for auditioning, if your child is interested in auditioning, please sign up using the Google Form below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0-uup1FoInuNhoxSB6o4EvHKJNdqbKxW2I5YddJTiLBiRuA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Got a question?

Step 1: Have you looked in the 2022 band information pack? A copy is available in the MSM parent portal.

Step 2: Keep up to date with our weekly Band News.

Step 3:

For instrument related enquiries please contact our Instrument Coordinator Kirsteen at apsbandinstruments@gmail.com.

For tutor related enquires please contact our Tutor Coordinator Jane at tutorband@artarmonpandc.org.au.

For invoicing related enquiries, please contact our Treasurer Lynn at treasurerband@artarmonpandc.org.au.

Step 4: for any other enquiries please contact your wonderful Band Coordinators!

Band coordinator contacts:

A big welcome and “thank you” to our new members of the 2022 Band Committee:

Siv The – Training Band Coordinator

Priya Chari – Concert Band Coordinator

Christine Cao – Senior Concert Band Coordinator

Manjula Sreekanth – Assistant Band Convenor (student records)

Jun Li – Assistant Instrument Coordinator

Min-Jie Lou – Festival Coordinator

Lakamini Meegahapola – Assistant Treasurer

Thank you!

Clare Li - 2022 Band Convenor

band@artarmonpandc.org.au.