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Flotsam Festival

Year 12 film student, Koen recently had one of his surf films featured at Next Wave Youth Showcase as part of Flotsam Festival. Koen developed a stylistic film that was well received during the showing. Congratulations Koen! 

Music

ANZAC Day  

Fourteen dedicated vocalists performed the New Zealand and Australian national anthems at this year’s Currumbin RSL Dawn ANZAC service. Students involved did an incredible job and represented themselves and our community to the highest standard on the national stage. We are extremely proud of Olivia, Willow, Saje, Mackenna, Saba, Valentina, Anjali, Isla, Anika, Amaya, Griffin, Elishka, Jaide and Maka. Well done to Cameron for his involvement in production. 

Red’s Fest 

Year 11 Music Excellence students planned an entertaining Red’s Fest earlier this term. The 3-day lunchtime event was filled with talented performances from students in our Music Ex program and enjoyed by lots of students. This annual event is a growing highlight on the PBC events calendar!! Congratulations Olive, Logan, Sonny and Griffin. 

Flotsam Festival 

Our CAX program is known for creating community connections and providing opportunities for our students to practice their skills in real-world events. Flotsam Festival is a surf culture film and photography festival that had an embedded Next Wave Youth Showcase earlier in the month. For 10 of our music ex students, this showcase provided a platform to develop a small set of music to a specific event brief (surf vibes). Student worked on developing their performance skills all term and demonstrated outstanding musicianship during the 5 hour event. Congratulations Mackenna, Noah, Audrey, Matt, Moss, Isla, Koen, Larn, Luke and Josh!!! 

Year 10 – SAE Excursion

Last week Year 10 Music Excellence students had the opportunity to work with industry professionals at SAE Creative Institute Byron Bay. The students spent the day in the recording studio with head lecturer and produced a number of outstanding recordings of performances and original songs. It was a fun day with engaged learning and outstanding results!

Live on the Lawn

Junior Music Excellence played their first ‘Live on the Lawn’ gig at Pasture and Co where parents, friends and the wider community were able to enjoy their awesome performances. Well done to our performers for sharing their music with the wider local community and brightening our Friday afternoon with live music! 

Instrumental Music

ANZAC Services 

The week of Anzac Day was a very big week for the Instrumental Music Department with musicians involved in multiple Anzac Day services. Optima Wind Ensemble was responsible for the music for the whole school assembly and performed with great musicianship and sensitivity throughout the service. Year 11 Instrumental Music student Griffin Light-Law gave an incredible performance of ‘The Last Post’ at the school service and then again on Saturday at the John Flynn Hospital Anzac Service. Fellow IM students Anjali Johnston (Yr 10) and Willow Sutherland (Yr 8) were also at the John Flynn Service to sing the Australian and New Zealand National Anthems. Another IM trumpeter, Charles Mathews (Yr 9) was at Currumbin State School’s Anzac Assembly to perform ‘The Last Post’ (Charles also played ‘The Last Post’ for Kingscliff Public School’s Assembly the week before Anzac Day). 

A very heartfelt thank you to all these musicians for your involvement in these services (including some very early morning starts for some), the music you performed was a very special part of each of these Services and commented on by many members of the community. 

Synergy Band Camp 

Last Friday and Saturday 60 awesome Synergy musicians had a two day camp at school returning home only to sleep on Friday night before returning on Saturday morning. 

We began the camp with our normal Friday morning rehearsal at 7.30am followed by a three-hour workshop with the Head of Ensembles at the QLD Conservatorium of Music, Dr Peter Morris. This was an amazing experience for our musicians and an incredible opportunity to work with a conductor of Dr Morris’s calibre. Friday afternoon saw us take on Time Zone at Coolangatta before returning to school for dinner and the much anticipated “Synergy’s Got Talent” which showcased the amazing talent amongst the band...as well as some entrants who may have been ‘gonged off the stage’ by our 80s judges! Saturday saw us back at school for more rehearsing as well as some fun with some hotly contested Pickleball games on the quad. 

A huge well done and thank you to all our Synergy musicians for a great camp. Dr Morris was very impressed with the level of playing and how engaged the students were. As staff members it was a real joy to spend the extra time with Synergy and we are looking forward to our performance at Fanfare in a few weeks! 

CAX Experience Cluster Day

Song Writing Workshop 

Students in Music Ex were treated to a full day Songwriting Workshop facilitated by PBC Alumni Bayley Pearl. The day was filled with creativity and learning valuable skills to develop a well written song.