Come and hear our marimba group this Sunday Night 7.30pm
News from the music programme of Chisnallwood Intermediate School, Christchurch, New Zealand. You can find more information about the programme at www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
New Brighton Christmas Parade this Saturday
Come and hear the Chisnallwood Jazz Band as it passes through the streets of New Brighton!
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Congratulations Sho Woodhouse
Sho Woodhouse has passed grade seven drums!
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Big Band Festival
Congratulations to the Jazz Band for fantastic performances over the weekend in the Big Band Festival!
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Class Disruption in Pegasus Post
Great to read about Class Disruption's nationwide success in the Oct 10 issue of Pegasus Post this week.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Chisnallwood guitarists play with Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple!
17 lucky Chisnallwood guitarists and bass players played Smoke on the Water with Glenn Hughes on Tuesday ahead of his evening performance in the Horncastle Arena. Check out the footage by Seven Sharp!
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
U3A Posh Afternoon Tea
The jazz and Irish groups enjoyed performing to U3A on Monday for their Posh Afternoon Tea.
Taster Day
Chisnallwood music groups enjoyed performing to visiting schools on Tuesday and having them join in as well.
Junior Jazz Jam
Chisnallwood was one of 5 primary school jazz bands to be part of Junior Jazz Jam 2017 held at Rangi Ruru School.
Orchestra Festival
Congratulations to Hiromu Crosado for winning a special award for enthusiasm and musicianship at the High Schools' Orchestra Festival
Class Disruption wins 1st Place in Bandquest National Finals!
Congratulations to Class Disruption who have just won 1st place at the Bandquest National Finals!!
Monday, September 11, 2017
Entries close this Friday 15th Sept for 2017 Theory Exams
This is the last opportunity to sit an ABRSM theory exam in 2017.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Bandquest Congratulations
Congratulations to all the bands who performed at Bandquest last Thursday and to our winning band ClassDisruption plus our 5 students with special awards!
Monday, August 21, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Big Band Extravaganza Fundraiser Concert Sunday Aug 27th
Blue Smoke (The Tannery) - Our Chisnallwood Jazz band kicks off a fantastic afternoon of music for a good cause.
Big Band Extravaganza Fundraiser Concert Sunday Aug 27th
Blue Smoke (The Tannery) - Our Chisnallwood Jazz band kicks off a fantastic afternoon of music for a good cause.
Jazzed at the Art Gallery this Saturday
The Chisnallwood Jazz bands will be playing in the Art Gallery Foyer from 2.30-3.30pm this Saturday along with 4 high school jazz groups.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Beatboxing lessons to start next week
We are pleased to announce that beatbox lessons are on offer starting from next Tuesday.
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Friday, August 4, 2017
JazzQuest - Silver Award to our Jazz Band
Congratulations to our jazz band receiving a silver award in the high school's JazzQuest event over the weekend.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Term 3 Music Dates
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Congratulations - SILVER for Jazz Combo
The Chisnallwood Jazz Combo achieved SILVER at this week's ARA JAZZQUEST COMBO competition.
Sunday, June 25, 2017
"Class Disruption" gets placed 3rd
Massive congratulations to Chisnallwood rock band "Class Disruption" who were placed 3rd in the Regional Finals of Rockquest on Friday.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Have you done all your Music Permissions and Feedback?
Check out http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/forms-to-fill-in-june-2017/ to see if you have any forms YOU need to fill in for music!
Irish Band to perform for Rotary
Our Irish Band is performing for a Rotary Club dinner on Monday June 26
Christchurch Schools' Music Festival representative Groups
Congratulations to 3 of our students who made it into representative groups
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Hook,line,Singalong House Sing-off
Congratulations to Water House who came 1st place in the House Sing-off as our wrap up to NZ Music Month.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Watch out for Class Disruption on "What Now" this Sunday morning!
May 28th 8-10am
Library Performances
Missed the NZ MM library performances or want to catch more? There are just 2 more NZMM performances for Chisnallwood music groups at Aranui Library for 2017.....
ROCKQUEST this Saturday
Come and support six Chisnallwood Bands on Saturday as well as ex-Chissy bands in the same heat!
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Next week in music....
Hamish Smith accepted into the JM World Jazz orchestra.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
NZYO success for ex-students
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
NZ Music Month sees the Chissy Irish band performing this week
Monday, May 1, 2017
Burnside High Music information Night May 3rd 7pm
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Flying South Movie music ticket offer closes Wed May 3rd
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Visit from Kaitaia School
This week we were very pleased to host students from Kaitaia Primary School.
Anzac Assembly
Next Wednesday the school assembly will be conducting a special ANZAC assembly.
Accordions and Jazz
The Chisnallwood Jazz Band were guest performers at the Christchurch Accordion Society concert last Sunday
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Dylan wins national prize
Congratulations to Dylan Jonkers who won an "outstanding arrangement" award for his original song.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Remembering Phil Garland
Phil Garland taught guitar at Chisnallwood from 1997 - 2013. His funeral will be tomorrow in Christchurch.