By TBHS | Posted: Monday April 8, 2019
Last Monday and Tuesday saw all senior music students work alongside Roncalli College, Timaru Girls' High School, Geraldine, Opihi College, Craighead Diocesan, and Mountainview High School in an annual opportunity to collaborate with current New Zealand musicians Katie Thompson and Jed Parsons.
It was a unique opportunity with the NZ Music Commission offering only 60 placements across the whole of the country, and usually if your school is a successful applicant, you are offered one musician. We successfully gained two due to merging our South Canterbury cohort as a cluster.
The days had a focus of songwriting and performing, which enhanced the NCEA Level 1-3 papers, along with composition, solo and group performance.
Consideration of the professionals' advice and tidbits, and hands on writing/performing, was the order of the two days.
Networking our students alongside other enthusiastic music students was the other important task, fostering depth within our South Canterbury music community. It was another great opportunity for our music teacher Lee Parcell to get to know her students a little better in a different learning environment.
