Thursday 1st May Evening Concert

7pm - 8.30pm Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, South Bank

Hosted by IPSWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOL

2014 GPS MUSIC SHOWCASE

HOST SCHOOL WELCOME

Headmaster, Ipswich Grammar School - Mr. Robert Henderson

CHOIR

Introduction Zac Cassard - BBC Music CaptainConductor Mr. Brett Holland (BBC)Manager Mr. Stuart Quill (BBC)Accompanist Mr. Christian Gant

‘Ladies of Brisbane’ Traditional arr. Brett Holland‘Once I loved a Maiden Fair’ Words by Padraic Colum, Music by Colin Brumby‘Star Wars’ Music by John Williams, Words by George Lucas, et al. arr. by Josh Slagowski, Bryant W. Smith, and Mister Tim‘Steal Away’ arr. Brazeal W. Dennard

CONCERT BAND

Introduction Tim Cousins - TSS Music CaptainConductor Mr. Rob Cooke (TSS)Manager Mr. Mitchell Buckley (TSS)

‘Go’ Samuel Hazo‘Continuum’ Robert Buckley‘The Girl with the Flaxen Hair’ Debussy arr. John Moss‘Old Churches’ Michael Colgrass

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Introduction Nathan Gatenby - BGS Music CaptainConductor Mr. Richard Gill (Guest Conductor)Manager Mr. Peter Ingram (BGS)

‘Abduction from the Seraglio’ W.A. Mozart arranged Isaac Alla Marcia from ‘Karelia Suite’ op.11 Jean SibeliusFinale from ‘Pines of Rome’ Ottorina Respighi arranged Bulla‘Summertime’ George Gershwin, Du Bose, Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin arranged Sayre

VOTE OF THANKS

Isaac Brown and Matthew White - Co-Captains of Music, IGS

CLOSING COMMENTS

Headmaster, Brisbane Boys’ College and GPS Chairman 2014 - Mr. Graeme McDonald

GPS MUSIC SHOW 2014 PROGRAM GPS CHOIR

TENOR 1

Jordy Hill BBCKrishnaa Sivapalan BBCJames Senanayake BBCBrodie Slade BBCJude Korab BBCEvan Kuo BBCStephen Valassakis BBCNicholas Tomkins ACGSChristopher Neilsen ACGSRobert McCullough TSSMatthew O’Connor NCTom Deery NCRupert Bevan TGSDaniel Reilly TGSCorne Wiid TGSMason Watts TGSJonathan Joshi TGSConnor Carlos BSHSBenjamin Jarousek BGSRichard Scalia GTHarrison Hill GTPatrick Harten GTJames Lacey GTLiam Byrne GTSamuel Morrow TSSStuart Moss BGS

TENOR 2

Austin Cornish BBCAlastair Moore BBCKurt Neumann BBCMichael Latino BBCElliott Acworth BBCLachlan Green NCSimon Gunn ACGSDugald Graham ACGSOliver Lacey ACGSWilliam Wright ACGSAngus Dadic ACGSAngus Mival IGSRiley Meara TGSChristopher Paton TGSPercival Wiid TGSWilliam Clift TGSTrent Sinclair TSSJoshua Loewenthal BGSGeoffrey Lyhne TSSJack Hughes TSSBlair Condon TSS

BASS 1

Noah Jarrah BGSAngus Woods BGSLachlan Acworth BBCAlexander Voltz BBCJoshua Prado BBCNaysan Jones BBCLachlan Matthews BBCRoberto Randazzo GTWilliam Morrison GTJackson Webster NCIan Ridgway NCNathaniel Pekol-Smith NCAlex Yates NCAnthony Patsalou TGSSebastian Hand TGSRyan Clayden-Zabik BGSIsaac Brown IGSAlex Johnston ACGSNicholas Allison ACGSStephen Sandeman TSSCameron Simpson TSS

BASS 2

Christopher Coates BBCNick James BBCHarry David GTTapiwa Chamboko NCHugh Hansen TGSHerbert Huskisson TGSPhilip Jones TGSMitchell Nye TSSDaniel Oates TSSPatrick Moroney IGSClancy Enchelmaier IGSTian Qin ACGSMitchell Haringcaspel ACGSAlex Feilding BGS

Conductor Mr Brett Holland

Accompanist Mr Christian Gant

GPS Choir Staff and Tutors

K. Thompson (ACGS), K. Lill (ACGS), K. Albury (BGS), B. Debattista (GT), M. Herron (GT), R. Tank (IGS), B. French (IGS), R. Grigg (NC), N. Roche-Kelly (TGS)

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GPS CONCERT BAND

FLUTE 1 Danica Edgar BSHS Minji Kim BSHS Ying Tseng BSHS Sanlin Fisher BSHS

FLUTE 2 Chris Coates BBC Vivian Zhang BSHS Sean Connell IGS Kevin Lee BBC Thomas Meo TSS

OBOE Angus Woods BGS

CLARINET 1 Oscar Kawamata ACGS Liam Tan TGS

Jessie Fong BSHS

CLARINET 2 Max Anning ACGS Dario Scalabrini BSHS Jun Kim BBC

CLARINET 3 Tim Bennett BBC Timothy Salisbury ACGS Ned Cook ACGS Rohan Hagbeck TSS

BASS CLARINET Patrick Bartley GT

ALTO SAXOPHONE 1 Hamish Litster ACGS Jesse Jones TGS

ALTO SAXOPHONE 2 Joel Aspinall GT Angus Taylor BBC

TENOR SAXOPHONE Hamish Mulcahy TSS Reuben Madden BBC

BARI SAXOPHONE Eddie Zhou BBC

TRUMPET 1 Ben Bruni BSHS Lachlan Luhrs ACGS

TRUMPET 2 Nicholas Linnane TSS Sam Reed BBC

TRUMPET 3 Michael Thompson GT Liam White GT Alistair Schramm TGS

FRENCH HORN 1 Ben Dissanayake BBC

FRENCH HORN 2 Joseph Colbrook BBC

FRENCH HORN 3 Matthew Forbes BBC

FRENCH HORN 4 Louis Backstrom BGS

TROMBONES 1 Zhao Ming Liu BSHS Conor Coleman BSHS

TROMBONES 2 Ellena Stockdale BSHS Thomas Kubale BBC

TROMBONES 3 Josh Inglis IGS Jude Jeyarajah GT Quinlan Barthelme IGS

EUPHONIUM Llewelyn Varnfi eld BBC Aaron Sia BBC Thomas Oldham IGS

TUBA Matthew White IGS Lachlan Farquhar GT

PERCUSSION Trenton Dunstan IGS Anthony Jacobsen BBC Charles Carter GT Antonio Libretto TSS

MALLET PLAYERS Liam Bond GT Naresh Sinnathamby BBC

Conductor Mr. Rob Cooke

GPS Concert Band Staff and Tutors B. Davison (ACGS), P. Kriesch (ACGS), C. Simmers (BBC), N. Wickham (BGS), B. Barker (BSHS), R. Ruben (BSHS), B. Esbensen (GT), C. Dabelstein (GT), L. Wensley (IGS), M. Cocking (GT), B. Foster (NC), M. Philip (TGS), M. Buckley (TSS)

GPS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN 1 Johnny Van Gend TGS Josh Liu BBC Walter Soodjaithum BGS William Olsen GT Dion Lao GT Benedict Gattas GT Kaitlyn Bowen BSHS Hannah Su BSHS William Fenwick BGS Andrew Lumsden TGS Anya Tang BSHS Harry Egerton TGS Julius Lynch BBC Edison Zheng BSHS Thomas La BGS Aidan Tay BBC Terence Lin BGS Matthew Nagel BBC Allen Gu BGS

VIOLIN 2 Xiangyun Zhu BBC Matthew Rose BBC Rebekah Du BSHS Finn Williams BSHS Thomas Hassall ACGS Cameron Nicholson TSS Niseraporn How-Ying Low BSHS Sophia Goodwin BSHS Richard Munro BGS Derek Mao BGS Ruby Pandolfi BSHS Mitt Vongphakdi GT Nicholas Ooi BGS Ning Foo (Tracey) Cheng BSHS James Tudball BGS Jun Kim BGS Andy Wang BGS Suyyang Hu BBC

VIOLA Jeremy Egerton TGS Aaron Teo BGS Lexi Free BSHS Sung Jae Lee BSHS Daniel Sawyer BBC Kent Scott TSS Aidan Burne-Johnston ACGS Isaac Li BGS

CELLO Wang Guillaume BSHS Hamish Jamieson ACGS Jeff Zheng BGS Yonas Hathway BBC Francesca Masel BSHS Will Kim BGS Bridget Free BSHS Robert Barringham BBC Gabriel Leslie BBC Michael Chen BGS Samuel Rasmussen BBC Timothy Pitcher ACGS Nathan Remmex TSS

DOUBLE BASS Will Hansen TGS Nicholas Free BSHS Thomas Crilly BGS Billee Mills BSHS Will Scammell BBC Connor Pilcher TSS Tom Tod BGS

FLUTE 1 Kenny Han TGS

FLUTE 2/PICCOLO Hugo Cook ACGS

CLARINET 1 Zachary Cassard BBC

CLARINET 2 Paul Gatenby ACGS

BASS CLARINET David Hughes BBC

OBOE 1 Billy Richardson ACGS

OBOE 2 Ethan Seto BGS

BASSOON 1 Callum Bryson GT

BASSOON 2 Saya Barnes BSHS

HORN 1 Sung-a Lee BSHS

HORN 2 Christian Fisalli TSS

HORN 3 Genevieve Forshaw BSHS

HORN 4 Steven Wimberger BBC

TRUMPET 1 Tetsuya Lawson BSHS

TRUMPET 2 Jonathon Buttsworth TGS

TRUMPET 3 Drew Buchanan BBC

TROMBONE 1 Steven Kim BGS

TROMBONE 2 Timothy Cousins TSS

TROMBONE 3 Peter Gravestock GT

TUBA Elliot Brown BBC

PIANO Sean Tran BGS

HARP Nicholas Ooi BGS

PERCUSSION 1 (TIMPANI) Nathan Gatenby BGS

PERCUSSION 2 Murray Peacock BBC

PERCUSSION 3 Ian Chu BGS

PERCUSSION 4 Brayden Lowe BBC

Conductor Mr. Richard Gill

GPS Symphony Orchestra Staff and Tutors A. Moran (ACGS), T. Kotzas (BBC), J. McKechie (BBC), S. Chin (BGS), J. Noble (BGS), L. Gordon (BGS), D. Kelly (GT), A. Phillips (GT), D. Sue Yek (IGS), I. Feltham (IGS), B.Foster (NC), L. Sulivan-Ward (IGS),J. Davis (NC), H. Mead (TGS), N. Burrell (TSS).

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Rob Cooke

CONDUCTORS

CHOIR CONDUCTORBrett Holland completed his Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium in 1995, Graduate Diploma Education at QUT in 1996 and Master of Philosophy (Music) in 2003. He is a well-known Bass in South East Queensland who has sung professionally as far north as Thursday Island and as Far South as Melbourne. Brett has sung with Opera Queensland, Opera Australia and as the Bass Soloist in many works for many ensembles up and down the East Coast. Some of Brett’s 2013 engagements are the Role of Caiaphas for Opera Queensland, the solo Bass part for Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ and the Adjudicator of the Vocal Sections of the Townsville Eisteddfod. Brett is in great demand as a vocal teacher, guest choral conductor and is the Director of Choral and Vocal Studies at the Brisbane Boys’ College.

CONCERT BAND CONDUCTORRob Cooke graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1984 completing a Bachelor of Music in performance majoring on Trombone. He has had a diverse range of performance experiences that include working with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, The State Opera Company of SA, The State Orchestra of Victoria, and many overseas and Australian artists including the rock band ‘Midnight Oil’.

Rob has been an active music teacher for 27 years and has been a Director of Music in various schools for 23 of those 27 years.

As the Director of Music of The Southport School, Rob is working with a dynamic team of music educators to create a vibrant ‘musical community’ that continues to engage its students in a lifelong passion for music making. He teaches Year 12 Music and Music extension and is also the Gold Coast District Review Panel Chair for Music Extension. Rob has a strong background with wind ensembles. He directs the TSS Senior Concert Band and Senior Big Band and also enjoys teaching lower brass.

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUEST CONDUCTORRichard Gill, OAM, is one of Australia’s pre-eminent and most admired conductors and is internationally respected as a music educator. He is Founding Music Director and Conductor Emeritus of Victorian Opera and Artistic Director of the Education Program for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has been Artistic Director of OzOpera, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and Adviser for the Musica Viva In Schools program.

He has conducted all the major Australian symphony orchestras and youth orchestras, New Zealand Symphony, Sydney Chamber Choir and Sydney Philharmonia Choir. For the Sydney Symphony he has conducted Meet the Music and Family concerts, Discovery concerts with the Sydney Symphony Sinfonia and Sinfonietta concerts,

Richard’s extensive operatic repertoire includes The Rake’s Progress, Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Threepenny Opera, Damnation of Faust, Julius Caesar, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Ariadne auf Naxos, and Rembrandt’s Wife (Victorian Opera); The Love for Three Oranges, Faust, The Eighth Wonder, Lindy, Macbeth, La forza del destino, Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor, Il trovatore, Romeo et Juliette, Fidelio, Turandot, Pearl Fishers, (Opera Australia); The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro ( Opera Queensland.

He has held several important posts including Dean of the West Australian Conservatorium of Music, and Director of Chorus at The Australian Opera and has received numerous accolades including the Bernard Heinze Award, Honorary Doctorates from the Edith Cowan University of Western Australia, and the ACU, the Australian Music Centre’s award for ‘Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Composition by an Individual’ and the Australia Council’s Don Banks Award.

Brett Holland

Richard Gill, OAM

Photography by: Brendan Read 2007

“Perhaps it’s just as well that Leonard Bernstein is dead. Otherwise he’d probably have to relinquish his great reputation as a musical educator- or at least share it with Sydney’s Richard Gill.”John Carmody, The Sun Herald

The success of the GPS Music Showcase relies on the dedication of many people. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and contributions of the following music staff, tutors, administrative staff and other key personnel who have helped make the day so special:

GPS Music Sub-Committee Members Mr. N. Wharton/ Mrs. A Rooney GT - Chair Ms. Y. Carr ACGS Mr. S. Quill BBC Mr. P. Ingram BGS Ms. K. Kuno BSHS Mr. B. Esbensen GT Mr. G. Neaves IGS Mr. B. Foster NC Mr. N. Roche-Kelly TGS Mr. R. Cooke TSS Ms. N. L’Efevre GPS Executive Offi cer

Audio Visual, Photography R. Carmody NC Student Crew NC

Stage Management N. Loibl IGS Student Crew IGS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Patrons are advised that the Performing Arts Centre has EMERGENCY EVACUATION

PROCEDURES, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT passageways. In case of an alert

patrons should remain calm, look for the closest EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and

comply with directions given by the in-house trained attendants and move in an orderly

fashion to the open spaces outside the venue.

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IPSWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOLproud host of the 2014 GPS Music Showcase

PO Box 465, Springhill Qld 4004P:07 3358 1556 F:07 3358 2553 www.gpsqld.org.au