Senior Concert Band
Senior Concert Band
Auditions - music and times were posted home Friday 31/10. Auditions commence the week of Monday Nov 17 at IMP rooms.
Membership of the ACT Senior Concert Band (SCB) is open to students of ACT government high schools who play wind, brass and percussion instruments and who are in Years 9 to 12 and who successfully audition. Membership of the SCB is for one year only and all places are declared vacant at the end of each school year. The SCB rehearses each Wednesday night of school term (not in the holidays).
Current members may reaudition for membership in next year's band, but will receive no special treatment except where 2 applicants rank equally at audition. In that situation the current member will receive preference if their behaviour has been exemplary and if their attendance record is good.
The SCB is not a teaching band in the way that the younger System Bands are; you will be expected to know the fingering for Z-flat, and you will be expected to learn your part - the conductor's job is to fit your prepared part into the whole. The music that the SCB plays is likely tobe a little harder than that which you play at school. For those reasons it is probably a good idea (though not compulsory) if you were to seek a private tutor who is prepared to assist you.
Senior Concert Band at Winter Winds 2008
Our Senior Jazz Band rehearses on Wednesday Nights before Senior Concert Band rehearsal from 6.00 - 7.00pm. Instruments include saxes, trumpets, trombones, percussion, keyboard, guitar and bass. Students are auditioned from the Senior Concert Band only.
SCB rehearsal commence Wednesday February 20 7.30 - 9.30pm. Jazz Band auditions will be held the following week Wednesday February 27 from 6-7pm.
Jazz Band trumpet section at Winter Winds
Senior Concert Band Conductor - Naida Blackley
naida.blackley@ed.act.edu.au
Diary Dates
Players and Parents - Make sure these dates are in your diary.
November – Tuesday 25/11 AND Wednesday 26/11 – Bandstravaganza, auditions
JCB and SCB parents receive one complimentary ticket per family per night as they perform on both nights!
Also Pacific School Games opening ceremony – Sunday November 30 at Bruce Stadium, rehearsal 10-12 Thursday November 27 at Bruce Stadium!
December – Sunday 7/12 Picnic
