Posted: 7th September 2022
Posted in: Music, News, Senior School
Last Tuesday evening the Senior Music Finale and Awards Concert was held in the Annand Theatre. This concert was a fitting tribute to our departing valedictorians of 2022 and showcased many fantastic performances by our ensembles. The following boys received awards for their efforts throughout 2022.
| Instrumental Prizes | |
| Woodwind Prize | Cameron Clinton |
| Brass Prize | Andrew Woo |
| String Prize | Max Carr |
| Percussion Prize | Zak Howard |
| Drumkit Prize | Andy Hobart |
| Guitar Prize | Mitcham Kannemann |
| Piano Prize | Jin Li |
| Vocal Prize | Alex Hill |
| Ensemble Prizes | |
| Concert Band Prize | Stuart Place |
| Orchestra Prize | Ryan Clinton, Ellis Gemeri |
| Big Band Prize | Andrew Woo |
| Drumline Prize | Andy Hobart, Zak Howard |
| Claude Rowney Memorial Choir Prize | Vasili Stergiou |
| Service Award | |
| Year 12 award for outstanding service over a number of years | Will Jackson, Joe Maurice, Will Marshall, Jackson Bulat, Casey Amos |
| Top Musician | |
| The Patrick Charles Sharpe Memorial Cup For Outstanding Effort and Performance in Music | Andy Hobart, Jin Li |
Last Friday evening the annual Big Band Dinner Fundraising concert was held at the Southport Golf Club. It was a tremendous success and a lovely evening filled with good food, drinks and entertainment provided by the Big Band. The evening also marked the final performance for TSS Music for Year 12 musicians Andy Hobart, Mitcham Kannemann, Will Marshall and Andrew Woo.
A recording of the evenings concert has been included below for you to view.
A special thank you to the Friends of Music for their organisation of the event, Ms Elise Lloyd for her tireless efforts helping pull everything together and Mr Rob Cooke for leading the band and imparting his words of wisdom and unique brand of humour onto so many young men in the Big Band throughout the years.
We thank our 2022 Music Captains for their service to the Music Department throughout the year and congratulate the following boys on their appointments for 2023.
Music Captains – Massimo Abela and Jin Li
Band Captain – Laurie Dougherty
String Captain – Max Carr
Choir Captain – Connor Murakami
Percussion Captain – Hunter Potts
Drumline Captain – Nicholas Mahony
An education at The Southport School does not simply focus on academic scores but frames the social and emotional development of the boy as essential to his development as a whole person.
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