Term 2 week 8

String Visit

It was fabulous to have Sandra Logan from Wellington visit Chisnallwood last week. She worked with some of our string players in a String Ensemble setting as well as helping our strings at orchestra time. The students had lots of fun and leant lots about tuning and other string techniques.

Schools visit to Chisnallwood next week

We are looking forward to our music groups having the chance to perform next Friday July 1st to visiting schools in blocks 1-3

Change of date

Pasifica Beats will be Sunday July 3rd and attend a special workshop on Saturday July 2nd.

Open Night August 3rd

Permission forms will be given out soon for music students taking part in this important evening. It will involve short performances by orchestra, jazz, choir, marimba, ukes and a sample of rock.

Theory Club activity

Click here to see one of the sorting networks in action at theory club on Friday.

Term 2 week 8

String Visit

It was fabulous to have Sandra Logan from Wellington visit Chisnallwood last week. She worked with some of our string players in a String Ensemble setting as well as helping our strings at orchestra time. The students had lots of fun and leant lots about tuning and other string techniques.

Schools visit to Chisnallwood next week

We are looking forward to our music groups having the chance to perform next Friday July 1st to visiting schools in blocks 1-3

Change of date

Pasifica Beats will be Sunday July 3rd and attend a special workshop on Saturday July 2nd.

Open Night August 3rd

Permission forms will be given out soon for music students taking part in this important evening. It will involve short performances by orchestra, jazz, choir, marimba, ukes and a sample of rock.

Theory Club activity

Click here to see one of the sorting networks in action at theory club on Friday.

June update

We are Aotearoa prize

Congratulations to Chisnallwood on winning one of the 5 national prizes for our video upload of our performance of "We Are Aotearoa"! Well done to all the performers and thanks to Charlotte Crone from Orange Studio for editing the phone videos together. 

Calling all our violin and cello players for Friday

We are very lucky to have string-expert Sandra Logan from Wellington visiting Chisnallwood this Friday. She will run a session with all our violin and cello players in block one and then work with our orchestral string players at lunchtime and block 5 as part of orchestra! 

Some upcoming music dates:

July 1 music performances for visiting local schools

July 1 Pasifica Beats

August 3 Open Night

August 5/7 possible Jazzquest (if space available)

August 25 Strum Strike and Blow (Ukuleles, recorders and marimbas)

August 29-31 Voices Festival

August 29-Sept 2 Cultural Festival

September 2 Bandquest

Sept 14 Junior Jazz Jam

Term 2 Week 5

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra concert-talk next Wednesday

Click http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/cso-june-8-ticket-offer/ to fill in for free seats for this 1 hour talk about Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite with 13 orchestra players playing the music extracts.

NZ Music Month

Thank you to Dan Callahan and the team at Aranui Library for hosting Chisnallwood music groups three times during NZ Music Month. Our final performance was last week with our choir, ukes and Irish and we even had a visiting preschool audience!

ROCKBANDS and ROCKQUEST

Chisnallwood had 4 bands who performed at Rockquest alongside 40 high school bands. All bands had to perform an original song. We also have an online entry in the Solo/Duo section with about 20 high school entries, and an entry in Pasifica Beats which will be held early July.

To see photos of our bands Broken Jandal, @nonymous, Wild Zodiacs, 82 Beats, Double Chocolate and the Semitones click the link below....

The next big Rock event will be Friday September 2nd for BandQuest!

http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/rock-band-photos-may-2016/

HOOK LINE AND SINGALONG

We had Hook line and Singalong on Friday to celebrate the end of NZ Music Month. Singing the song together has been a fabulous tradition we have had with Avondale Primary fro the last few years, and this was the last time we could share this as they are due to close at the end of the year. We had some spot prizes and a house sing-off as well as the massed renditions complete with students who had learnt to play the 2016 song "We are Aotearoa" on different instruments. Air house blew us away with their knowledge of the song, NZ sign language and yellow dress code. Water showed excellent creativity with their original clapping beat and great rhythm section. Earth house was the chosen favourite by the judges and took 1st prize with Air coming second and Avondale 3rd.

Judges: Charlotte Crone from Orange Studio

Dan Callahan from Aranui Library 

Carl Everett from ChCh Boys High School

The full video will be online by June 9th, and you can click the image to see the CTV coverage of the event!

https://vimeo.com/168734163#t=535s

JAZZ at the ACCORDION SOCIETY

The jazz band recently gave an excellent performance as invited guests at the Accordion Society concert in Sydenham. 

New Music Tutors

We welcome Hayden Sinclair on clarinet and saxophone, who is filling in for Ellen Deverall as she takes up a contract with the NZSO for the rest of this year.  

We also welcome Rosa Elliott who has taken over from Ravil Atlas as choir director while Ravil takes time to focus on his doctorate. 

Piano for Sale

about 45 years old, English make- Kemble

Well used, but well maintained

A good learner's instrument

$200 plus buyer to remove from Opawa

Contact  981-7384 (Kimberley family) or Marnie on 027-4923014

Term 2 week 3

NZ Music Month Chisnallwood Rock Week!

Thursday 19th May - Family Rock Night

6.30pm-7.15pm Family Rock Night in the hall.

This night is for families of students in RockQuest and Pasifica Beats on Saturday - a chance for students to practice performing, get some feedback, and for parents to get final details about Saturday.

Friday 20th May - Aranui Library

2pm-2.30 All Rock Bands at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month!

Saturday 21st May

4.30pm (-5pm)
Four of our rock bands will be performing at RockQuest at the start of the 4.30pm session. This will be at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. Our bands performing are Broken Jandal, 82 Beats, Wild Zodiacs and @nonymous. The order of their performance times are posted on the Rockband page. 
The Semitones, a duo, are entering the online category and duo Double Chocolate entering Pasifica Beats.

JAZZ

Saturday 21st May

2.30pm Our Jazz Band are the guest performers at the Accordion Society Concert held at the Salvation Army, 250 Colombo Street. 

Rodger Fox Visit last week
Hi my name is Lena and on Thursday 12th of May some of my jazz band fellows and I went to see the famous Rodger Fox! We all learnt a lot of jazz techniques and heard him play his trombone. He also got to hear some of the pieces we played and he helped to fix them up. Rodger Fox is an amazing jazz master and I hope to see him again!

CHOIR, UKULELES and IRISH

Thursday 26th May 11.15am
The choir, ukuleles and Irish band will be performing at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

House Sing-off May 27th 1.45pm

Chisnallwood will be combining with Avondale school for this special NZ Music month event! You can find the music to learn at hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 

Term 2, week 2

Burnside High Visit

It was great to have Burnside High School outstanding music groups at Chisnallwood today. We saw their Big Band, their senior chorale, a guitar/vocal duo and a string trio. It was great to see lots of ex-Chisnallwood students among the performers.
Anyone interested in auditioning for their Specialist Music Programme can visit specialistmusicprogramme.co.nz  or pick up a brochure from Mrs Bell. They also have their Open Night next Tuesday. There are two rounds of auditioning - the first closes tomorrow, and the next one on July 22nd.

Coming up:

Today at 1.25pm Chisnallwood Jazz Band in Open Rehearsal with Rodger Fox at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

Thursday 19th May 

6.30pm Family Rock Night in the music room

Friday 20th May 

2pm Rock Bands at Aranui Library

Saturday 21st May

2.30pm Our Jazz Band are the guest performers at the Accordion Society Concert held at the Salvation Army, 250 Colombo Street

4.30pm Four of our rock bands will be performing at RockQuest at the start of the 4.30pm session. This will be at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. Our bands performing are Broken Jandal, 82 Beats, Wild Zodiacs and @nonymous. The order of their performance times will be posted on the Rockband page as soon as they are confirmed.We also have a duo, The Semitones entering the online category and duo Double Chocolate entering Pasifica Beats in early July.

Computer Music - Do you have something you'd like to advertise on the Chissy Radio Station?

Computer Music starts next week as part of Leisure Ed. Students will be composing ads for the school radio station, so if you have any ads you'd like made, please fill in the form at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/chissy-radio-ads/ 
Students taking computer music are encouraged to bring their own headphones.

House Sing-off May 27th

A reminder that "We are Aotearoa" the 2016 Hook Line and Singalong song can be found at hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 

Studio Tour this weekend

The free STUDIO TOUR on May 15 at Orange Studio in Ferrymead is now offering a second session as the first one is fully booked. This is run as part of NZ Music Month. There are both adult and junior tours. Booking is at orangestudio.co.nz/shows/

MAY 2016 NZ Music Month!

Well done to the 16 sound techs who trained in the holidays. They covered a lot of skills to do with sound, lights and audio-visuals at Chisnallwood and got to work with Jono Teague, an audio engineer and ex-Chisnallwood music student.

There is a free STUDIO TOUR on May 15 at Orange Studio in Ferrymead as part of NZ Music Month. There are both adult and junior tours. Booking is at orangestudio.co.nz/shows/ This studio is owned by ex-Chisnallwood music student Michael Bell.

Thank you to Lena Krakowiak who played so well for Waitakiri School on Monday at the local ANZAC memorial.

Students who applied to audition for the Primary Schools' Music Festival Special groups now have audition times and locations allocated. Please see Mrs Bell if you have any questions.

In May we are looking forward to a number of extra music events celebrating...

 NZ Music Month!

Hook Line and Singalong

The winning Hook Line and Singalong Song, "We are Aotearoa" will be sung as a massed House Sing-Off combined with Avondale Primary on Friday May 27th 1.45pm.
You can get learning this now by singing, signing, strumming and visiting
hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 or
menza.co.nz/hls/we-are-aotearoa

JAZZ BAND -  OPEN REHEARSAL WITH RODGER FOX next week!

We are excited that our jazz band has the opportunity to work with NZ's one and only Rodger Fox next Thursday May 12th 1.30pm. This will be held at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

That same day we are also looking forward to Burnside High School bringing music groups with a number of ex-Chisnallwood students to perform for us in the morning!

ROCKQUEST and PASIFICA BEATS

Entries close May 9th. Our school bands will be performing original songs at the family rock night on either May 17 or 18, then at Aranui Library on May 19 1.45pm and at RockQuest on May 21 or 22 at at Aurora Centre, Burnside High.

IRISH BAND, CHOIR and UKULELES

Our Irish band, choir and ukuleles will perform at Aranui Library on May 26 at 11am.