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The Music Academy at Canberra Girls Grammar School

Locality: Deakin

Phone: +61 2 6202 6446

Address: 48 Melbourne Avenue 2600 Deakin, ACT, Australia

Website: http://themusicacademy.cggs.act.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Canberra Girls Grammar School Music Academy staff out and about performing over the weekend! https://citynews.com.au//review-passionate-songs-tell-of-/

25.01.2022 Do you know a young musician who would like to join the Australian Youth Orchestra? Applications for 2021 are now open!

24.01.2022 Building a singing culture in your school supports great musicianship! Canberra Girls Grammar School

23.01.2022 Come and join our newly formed Community Guitar Ensemble. An opportunity for recently graduated students and adult community members to play and perform music together under the guidance of the fantastic John Couch More information can be found in our handbook: http://themusicacademy.cggs.act.edu.au//CGGS-Music-Academy Sign up for Term 1 here: https://form.jotform.co/90237787958880

23.01.2022 We share the research about the benefits of music education on brain development. Like our page for more information that will supercharge your advocacy for you...r music program! This video is based on a population study into the effects of music learning on students' grades in maths, science and English. Reference: Guhn, M., et al. (2019). A population-level analysis of associations between school music participation and academic achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology.

23.01.2022 Extremely grateful to Carmel and the HSA for the assistance in getting our handbells program off the ground! We are so excited to be purchasing our own bells and can’t thank you enough! Canberra Girls Grammar School

22.01.2022 2020 Recital Series Program! Canberra Girls Grammar School

22.01.2022 We are excited to announce the launch of our Music Academy Strategic Plan 2020-2024. This plan is the culmination of two years of consultation and collaborative thinking. Created side by side with our staff, students, parents, Grammarians and the broader community, this plan sets the strategic and operational direction for our future as we head towards our centenary year. http://themusicacademy.cggs.act.edu.au/strategic-plan/

21.01.2022 Together in Music Concert from 2019 and our performance of the Sunrise Mass Canberra Girls Grammar School

21.01.2022 Many of you may be interested in participating in this project over the weekend. Music for Mateship encourages musicians across the State to stand at the end of... their driveways to observe the 1-minute silence that will take place at 6:00am on Saturday 25 April, and to use their talents to play the Last Post and Rouse as you would hear at a traditional Dawn Service. Information about how to join in can be found here: https://musicformateship.org/ Free musical arrangements for many instruments can be found here: https://musicformateship.org/music

21.01.2022 Very proud of Lara! A cracking tune and stunning production!

21.01.2022 The Vivien Gough Memorial Music Scholarship is available to students commencing in Year 5 and Year 7. It enables students with an outstanding aptitude in music ...to develop their musicianship and benefit from a CGGS education. The skill and talent of our musicians is best experienced through live performance, and while we can’t showcase their talent in a concert setting, we hope you will enjoy these recorded performances from some of our current CGGS Music Scholars: https://bit.ly/cggsmusicscholars

20.01.2022 We're very excited to present out 2020 Concert Series! Canberra Girls Grammar School

20.01.2022 Our fabulous Adelaide Avenue Jazz Band producing some great work in the studio! Canberra Girls Grammar School https://youtu.be/04mbu-tBkas

20.01.2022 Delighted to have Tim on our team! Canberra Girls Grammar School

20.01.2022 Welcome to the first of our Music Scholar Recitals featuring Bernice Chua on piano! Canberra Girls Grammar School

18.01.2022 Delighted to have Justin on our team Canberra Girls Grammar School

18.01.2022 One of our pop ensemble conductors Grant doing something great things! Canberra Girls Grammar School

18.01.2022 The crew at DW music certainly know their stuff when it comes to pianos! Check out their great sale and support our partners.

17.01.2022 When looking at research, we must acknowledge the strength of the impact or effect level of the findings. This infographic outlines what we know at the moment about the impact of music learning on non-musical skills.

16.01.2022 Now's your chance to play 'alongside' CSO and ANU School of Music musicians in our Virtual Orchestra: Community Special. Orchestral players of all ages and skil...l levels welcome! Download the recording guide online and get your recordings in by midnight MONDAY 8 JUNE. Long weekend plans sorted Produced in collaboration with the ANU School of Musioc and presented by ActewAGL and Lendlease. https://cso.org.au/virtual-orchestra-community-special/

16.01.2022 Very proud of our Music Captain Ashleigh Lane and Vice Ella Borgo on this huge achievement!

15.01.2022 We are delighted to present the first of our Faculty Concerts for 2020! Canberra Girls Grammar School

14.01.2022 People of the Music Academy The Music Academy at Canberra Girls Grammar School Canberra Girls Grammar School Introducing: Sonia Connor - Head of Choirs... "My family although not very musical now, played a few instruments. My dad played the accordion by ear. I have a European background so music was always within our household. My mum when I was about ten, decided that I’d been singing so much around the house, she put me into a choir and a bunch of other activities, but singing came through in the end! I have performed many times in Canberra over the years. I have performed from Adelaide all the way up to Mt. Isa in The Magic Flute, on tour with Co-Opera from Adelaide. I think we did 28 shows in 27 places over 7 weeks. We drove 14,000kms! I’ve done quite a bit of performing in Vienna but one of the most memorable performances I ever did was where I was given 5 weeks’ notice to sing the role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas. I think it was almost the last thing I did in Canberra before I moved to Vienna and that was with the School of Music while I was doing my Masters. I admire Maria Callas and not because she was the most fantastic singer. She technically struggled and she actually didn’t love singing. But what she brought to the stage - which is what I admire the most -was her humility, integrity, her character, and her honesty while performing the roles she became so famous for. That brought across - even though she wasn’t technically perfect - an emotional depth that you don’t witness often on stage these days. I always try to learn from that and bring honesty and integrity to my performances that way as well. Over the last few years I’ve had a massive love/hate relationship with singing. You get to a point where you know you want to advance and you know you want to get better, but you really struggle to do that. I’ve never wanted to quit music but with my own personal singing, you get to a point where you plateau and that’s a psychological thing and a judgement thing. You judge yourself harder than everybody else is judging you and then it’s tricky to get over that step. But everyone goes through it. You have to so that you can become a better musician. I’ve never wanted to quit music but my focus changed from being a superstar performer to actually imparting what I’ve learnt, and helping others to put more music into their lives, to feel the power of music and to always love it. "

11.01.2022 A stunning performance of Northern Lights - Ola Gjeilo by our Chamber Vocal Ensemble Canberra Girls Grammar School

10.01.2022 A look back at our performance of Requiem for the Living from the 2017 CGGS Celebrates Music Concert Canberra Girls Grammar School

06.01.2022 So proud of Year 9 student Lara on her track SMOKE recently uploaded to triple j Unearthed https://www.triplejunearthed.com/jukebox/play/track/9722896

05.01.2022 Singing in a group might be off the cards, but singing has great benefits, even if it's just in the shower.

04.01.2022 Composition classes with Australian legend Stephen Leek. Open to non-CGGS students and adult community members. Further info in the Music Academy Handbook: http://themusicacademy.cggs.act.edu.au//CGGS-Music-Academy Registration for Term 1 open now: https://form.jotform.co/90237787958880

04.01.2022 Our next Music Scholar Recital featuring the wonderful Ziqi Gu (Year 6) Canberra Girls Grammar School

03.01.2022 With a large stock of chocolate for the 12 Music Academy Concert Series events planned for 2020 purchased just before Covid-19 raised its head, our Friends of Music were faced with a dilemma. What to do with stock that would expire before they had an event to sell it at? Solution - words of wisdom from some of the great composers, and a chocolate treat for each of our 400 Senior and Junior school musicians! This small gesture lets the girls know the FoM team are thinking of them, and looking forward to coming back together to hear their amazing performances! Canberra Girls Grammar School

02.01.2022 An invitation to join our superb Glanville-Hicks Symphony Orchestra for 2020 under the direction of our wonderful Head of Orchestras Mrs Rowan Harvey-Martin!! Open to non-CGGS students and adult community members. Auditions required - further info in the Music Academy Handbook: http://themusicacademy.cggs.act.edu.au//CGGS-Music-Academy Apply now for an audition: https://form.jotform.co/90237787958880

01.01.2022 A beautiful performance of Northern Lights from our Chamber Vocal Ensemble Canberra Girls Grammar School