On Thursday 20th June we held our annual Senior Private Pupil Concert in the School Hall. There were 32 musical items for the lovely audience to enjoy and we were chuffed to see performers from Year 7 right up to Year 11 getting involved. Well done everybody, it was a fantastic evening 🎼
Young Musician of the Year 2019
June 18th, 2019 | Posted by in Events | Gallery | Music - (0 Comments)Yesterday we hosted the ninth “Young Musician of the Year” competition in our School Hall. We were delighted to have David Robinson back to St Joseph’s to be our adjudicator for the morning, and he gave some fantastic feedback to all of our performers.
After a very mature performance of “Panis Angelicus” (Franck) and a dramatic performance of “Giants In The Sky” (Sondheim), Ben Hodgson was the overall winner. We look forward to Ben being the recipient of the Bethany Hulme-Teague Cup as the official winner of this competition at Senior Prize Giving next week. Congratulations Ben!
Well done to everyone who performed; it truly was an enjoyable morning of musicality.🎼
On Thursday 9th May our Senior School musicians took part in our “Music for a Summer Evening” concert. The Girls’ Chamber Choir began the evening with a performance of a piece called “Alleluia” in Ghanaian. The Wind Band and the Boys’ Choir both performed two new pieces that they had studied this term. Some soloists had been asked to perform some pieces to punctuate the evening, and they did especially well. The Canzonetta Choir concluded the evening with a performance of “Shake It Out” which was a choral arrangement of the popular song by Florence and the Machine. A huge well done to our outstanding musicians. Over £200 was raised on the evening for the Cornwall Air Ambulance.
Congratulations to Year 7 pupil Ben who will be singing the role of Gavroche with 11 other soloists from across the South West, accompanied by a 50 piece orchestra on Saturday 18th May at Plymouth Guildhall. Tickets are now available if you would like to see what is sure to be a wonderful performance. Visit http://www.swpac.co.uk/ for further information.
Wadebridge Music Festival Success
March 8th, 2019 | Posted by in Gallery | Music | News - (0 Comments)In a remarkable sign of the strength and vibrancy of the musical life of St Joseph’s school, pupils from across the school participated in the annual Wadebridge Festival of Music and Speech in the last week.
This prestigious festival runs for five days and includes competition classes for speech, brass, choirs, instrumental and vocal. There were many successes for our pupils during the week, and we have celebrated these in school: huge congratulations to every participant, whether they were a winner or not.
Ruby Kirkwood (Year 4), Darcy Courtney-Bridgey, Isabelle Thorns and Chloe Smith (Year 10) not only won their classes but also received shields for achieving the highest overall mark in their category.
A special mention must go to two remarkable sets of siblings: Ben and Ella Hodgson (Years 7 and 6) who won seven trophies between them, and Alice and Oscar Amankwah (Years 9 and 6) who went home with five awards. In addition, Ben and Ella were both awarded the highest marks in the male and female vocal classes, and Ben was named as the Wadebridge Festival Singer of the Year.
Well done to all of our pupils who took part this year, especially if it was your first time. A huge thank you to all the music teachers involved and parents who supported the children.
Well done to all of you, we are very proud of you all.
Wadebridge Prize Winners:
Year 4 Tilly Goodwin (Piano and Vocal) Ruby Kirkwood (Piano)
Year 6 Oscar Amankwah (Piano and Vocal) Ella Hodgson (Vocal)
Year 7 Ben Hodgson (Vocal) Georgie Gilbert (Clarinet)
Year 8 Oliver Goodwin (Piano)
Year 9 Alice Amankwah (Piano and Vocal)
Year 10 Darcy Courtney-Bridgey (Piano and Violin) Lucas Drayton (Vocal) Chloe Smith (Flute) Isabelle Thorns (Flute, Piano and Vocal)
Year 11 Lucy Rowe (Vocal)
Wadebridge participants
Yr 11 Lucy Rowe,
Yr 10 Darcy Courtney-Bridgey, Lucas Drayton, Chloe Smith and Isabelle Thorns
Yr 9 Alice Amankwah and Daisy Bailey
Yr 8 Oliver Goodwin, Isabel Ivell, Daisy Rae and Brontë Stevens
Yr 7 Georgie Gilbert, Ben Hodgson, Kelly Lam, Rosy Renfree and Louisa Smith
Yr 6 Oscar Amankwah, Phoebe Blatchford Cooper, Ella Hodgson, Sophie Renfree, Hollie Shute, Beth Sobey and Shannon Uglow
Yr 5 Erin Godwin and Millie Rose,
Yr 4 Tilly Goodwin, Ruby Kirkwood and Cecily Whitbread
Yr 3 Jake Godwin
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