Saturday March 10th Concerto Finals

Chisnallwood students, parents and staff are lucky to have been offered free tickets to the National Concerto Finals on March 10th, 7.30pm at the Aurora Centre, Burnside High.
You will get the chance to hear three amazing young soloists perform concertos with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. One of the contestants is Hilary Hayes, whom some of you may remember visited our orchestra last year and helped our violinists.
If you visit https://chisnallwoodmusic.wikispaces.com/Orchestra you can read about the soloists, read about how to attend this kind of concert, listen to a sample of the music and also sign up for tickets. You need to apply for tickets by March 5th. And all audience members get the chance to take part in the audience vote.

Music lessons 2012

Don't forget to sign up at on www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz if you want to learn music at school. Great opportunities are available.
Lessons are underway and there's been a great response but there are a few spaces available, so do fill it in if you are interested or give Mrs Bell a call if you have questions!

Groups that have started up are Orchestra, jazz band and ukulele band.
Choir and percussion start this week. The timetable for these groups is on the music website. Please see Mrs Bell if you are interested in joining a group. It's a fantastic experience to be part of a committed music group! 
Rock band auditions continue next week. Watch the daily notices for these.
Dance lessons will be advertised soon.

Festival of Flowers

Well done to the Ukulele Band for their performance on Feb 17 at Hagley Park as part of the Opening of the ChCh Festival of Flowers. Great to see so many new players from Chisnallwood! It was great to be combined with other schools at this special event. There will be more photos uploaded to the music website soon!

November News

"BAND QUEST" THIS THURSDAY 24th November!!!

Come along to the Jack Mann Auditorium, College of Education, University of Canterbury, Solway Ave, Avonhead, Christchurch

7pm to support Rock Bands from Intermediate and Primary Schools , including four bands from Chisnallwood! Each band gate a maximum of 5'30sec to play :)

Cost: $10

Tickets available from 6.30pm at the door.

More events on Thursday 24th Nov:

4.30pm - 5pm Our Chisnallwood Combo will be playing in the Addington Raceway carpark for Funrazor, a Child Cancer fundraiser event. Come and support them and and the head shaving fundraiser at 5pm!

6pm in the CBS Arena is a free concert for composer John Ritchie's 90th birthday. The combo will be playing from 5.50-6pm in the CBS Arena foyer for this special event!

Congratulations to the Chisnallwood Ukes for getting third place in "UkeQuest" a competition for ukulele performers open to all intermediate and high schools in NZ. This is a fantastic accomplishment. Well done!

The Chisnallwood Ukes head up to Auckland on Saturday to play with 117 other schools (2,500 uke players) at the Kiwilele festival!

Details on www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz

Congratulations to all who played at the Itinerant evenings this month - they were fantastic nights!

Big Band Monday

Big Band Monday
Wind, brass and rhythm section jazz players make sure you check out BIG BAND MONDAY!!
You can register to play in a fantastic big band workshop or specialized instrumental clinic.
The Chisnallwood band (and other jazz bands) will be performing in the afternoon and the combo before the gala concert!
Rodger Fox' Wellington Jazz Orchestra with Jeff Driskill will be performing at night and tutoring all day!
A fantastic opportunity! Check out the webpage for details. you can register online and also order tickets for Rodger Fox's GALA concert with Jeff Driskill and the incredible WJO!
Big Band Monday is on Oct 24th (Labour Day) and will be held in the Middleton Grange performing Arts Centre.

Then, for those who are really keen, registrations are now open for the NZSM 5 day jazz workshop in Wellington in January by the same fantastic NZSM people! To check this out, visit http://www.nzjazzfoundation.com/

Afternoon Delights Concert 29 Sept 2011

Thursday Sept 29th 1:45pm "Afternoon Delights" concert by Chisnallwood jazz bands
This is part of a series of concerts designed for an older audience. They serve afternoon tea after the concert and the cost is $5.00 pp with carers being admitted free of charge.
The Chisnallwood jazz bands will be performing some great numbers sure to go down a treat. There will also be special guests, Taylor Roche and the ukuleles.
The concert will be held at the Salvation Army Citadel at 250 Colombo St, Sydenham.
If you wish to book a ticket for this please contact Trish Rainey Ph 3557170 or email concerts@musiccentre.org.nz

JazzQuest success

Congratulations to the Chisnallwood Jazz bands who performed last weekend at the 2011 CPIT Jazz School's JazzQuest:

Matthew Howes was awarded best guitarist.
Ella Dunbar-Wilcox was awarded most promising composition for her song "Just Won't Do".
The Chisnallwood Big Band was awarded silver.
The Chisnallwood Combo was awarded gold and Best Combo!!!

Theses are incredible results considering all the other bands were from high schools. Well done to the students and thanks to all the people who came to support them.
Photos can be viewed here (or go to the jazz page on the music wiki)



This comes on the heels of the bands' success at the NZSM Jazz festival in Wellington where they won four awards competing with high school bands from around NZ:
Best bass - Hamish Smith,
Best guitarist - Matt Howes,
Adjudicators' commendation - Ella Dunbar-Wilcox,
Adjudicators' choice - Chisnallwood Intermediate

Please check www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for upcoming performances!