Bands Festival

By Mrs Kirsten Knight, Head of Co-Curricular Music

Earlier this week, our Gershwin Concert Band participated in the ACT Combined Independent Schools Bands Festival. This year's festival was held at Canberra Girls Grammar School, with their students and students from Canberra Grammar School and Marist College also participating.

Gershwin Concert Band students enjoyed a combined workshop of Jodie Blackshaw’s Belah Sun Woman, a five-movement work inspired by an Indigenous narrative telling of the birth of the sun. Students workshopped two of the movements with band conductors from the schools involved.

The event finished with a concert in which each group performed their own repertoire before coming together for a demonstration of Belah Sun Woman.

My thanks go to our Director of Bands and Gershwin Concert Band Conductor, Mr Ben Marston, as well as to the staff at Canberra Girls Grammar School for hosting this wonderful event.