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Music Tahuna

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna Normal Intermediate School is proud to offer a dedicated music suite equipped with fabulous instruments of all kinds.

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Itinerant Music Classes 2024

by Anna Bowen

Sign up for piano, violin, flute, clarinet, oboe, guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, trombone or cello, today!

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Itinerant Music Lessons Tahuna 2024

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna Intermediate is proud to offer individual and small group instrumental lessons. We have qualified tutors who visit us throughout the week, lessons take place during class time and after school.

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Tahuna students excel in piano exams

by Anna Bowen

Arlo Synnott-Chapman and Layla Wainwright have performed smashingly in their recent Trinity Board piano exams. They have been taking lessons at school and have worked really hard at attaining their goal.

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Screen Pollution

Screen Pollution wins 2nd place at BandQuest Otago, and best rock guitarist!

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna bands Moxie and Screen Pollution competed in a very talented line up of 16 bands for BandQuest Otago 2023

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Tahuna rocks!

by Anna Bowen

With two rockbands performing at BandQuest, a djembe and a marimba band, ukulele mornings, the orchestra and ongoing lessons in drums, cello, sax and more, Tahuna never stops jammin'.

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Itinerant Music Classes 2024

by Anna Bowen

Sign up for piano, violin, flute, clarinet, oboe, guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet, trombone or cello, today!

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Congratulations Max!

by Anna Bowen

Max Thomlinson has won Best Keyboard Player in the Bandquest NZ Nationals, no mean feat and well deserved. Max is the keyboard player for Velvet Concord who won the regional Bandquest competition in Otago in August.

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Velvet Concord wins Bandquest 2022!

by Anna Bowen

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Tahuna Rockband Velvet Concord wins Bandquest Otago

by Anna Bowen

Congratulations to Tahuna's rock band Velvet Concord on winning 1st Prize at the Bandquest Regionals on Saturday night!

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Year 8 music has started with a bang!

by Anna Bowen

Heard that rumbling noise coming from Tahuna School? That'll be the year 8 classes pulling out some impressive rhythms on the djembe.

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Learn an instrument 2022

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna Intermediate is proud to offer individual and small group instrumental lessons.

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BandQuest Online

by Anna Bowen

Congratulations to Tahuna Band Queen Neptune for winning Best Original Song two years in a row, and to the Jazzaholics' Benji Egan for winning Best Keyboardist two years in a row as well!

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The Keys to Success

by Anna Bowen

Congratulations to our students who participated in the annual competitions & piano exams. Archie Arlidge-Cardoza and Ditte Sofie Kjaegaard are pictured here with their trophies and medals from the 2021 NZMSM Competitions. John den Dulk obtained a smashing 99% in his very first exam. Their dedication to music is priceless. All pupils of Dr Ahila James.

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Tahuna Ukulele Band

by Anna Bowen

Wake up jamming with the Tahuna Ukulele Band on Wednesday mornings at 8.10

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Rockshop BandQuest, start rockin'!

by Anna Bowen

BandQuest will be on in August this year, entries due by July 7

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The Dugald MacKay Memorial Trophy.

by Anna Bowen

An article by Anika Franklyn, room 11:

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Tahuna Arts Evening

by Anna Bowen

On Wednesday 14th April 7-8:30pm Tahuna Intermediate School is presenting an 'Evening of the Arts' in our hall. We welcome parents of performers along to this evening.

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The songwriting competition Hook, Line and Sing-Along is ready to accept your entries!

by Anna Bowen

If you are under 18 and would like to write the song of NZ Music Month for 2021, visit www.hooklineandsingalong.com to enter now.

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2021 - The year to start a musical instrument?

by Anna Bowen

Learning a musical instrument does amazing things for your brain, your muscles and your confidence, sign up today!

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2021 Itinerant Music lessons

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna Intermediate is proud to be able to offer individual and small group instrumental lessons. We are very lucky to have an amazing group of qualified tutors come visit us throughout the week to give students the opportunity to learn their chosen instruments.

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Bandquest Otago- Tahuna bands prove noteworthy

by Anna Bowen

Congratulations to The Jazzaholics and Queen Neptune for winning three times over at Bandquest Otago 2020.

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Rob Thorne Porotiti Mindfulness Workshop & Performance

by Anna Bowen

600 students meditate on the sound of Taonga Puoro.

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Video: Pitched Percussion Perfect

Pitched Percussion Perfect

by Anna Bowen

On Monday Tahuna hosted a massed marimba celebration for 190 students from 10 Dunedin schools, filling the hall with music and mallets.

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Looking sharp, no treble

by Anna Bowen

Once a year our Tahuna strings, woodwind and brass players join with other Dunedin schools to form a massed orchestra.

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Tahuna Ukulele Band

by Anna Bowen

We have received numerous requests from students for more opportunities to play ukulele, so we're starting a ukulele band.

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Tahuna Orchestra and the Hub Marimbas live!

by Anna Bowen

2020 has not been a great year for live performance but the final assembly of term 3 was an opportunity to make up lost ground.

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BandQuest 2020 is ON!

by Anna Bowen

Rockshop Bandquest is a platform for the next generation of contemporary musicians to step out and perform in a supportive and encouraging competition format, with a focus on education, inspiration, and entertainment.

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Piano or guitar lessons in term 3 and 4.

by Anna Bowen

Space has opened up for itinerant music lessons in either piano or guitar, take the challenge and sign up!

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Sign Up for the Morning Marimba Band

by Anna Bowen

Tahuna's Marimba Band gets together at 8.10am on Thursday mornings, what better way to start your winter day!

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Tahuna's two award winning songwriters

by Anna Bowen

Both Grace Gemmell (Room 16) and Emily-Rose Young (Room 5) entered a song in the New Zealand Music Month "Hook, Line and Singalong" competition, and both won!

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Music

by Anna Bowen

The year has started off with a bang in the music room where the year 8 African Drumming unit is a hit with most students, if not with the administration in the offices across from us.

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Tahuna band Amped Up rocks Bandquest

by Anna Bowen

Rockshop Bandquest is a platform for the next generation of contemporary musicians to step out and perform in a supportive and encouraging competition format.

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Tahuna Music Update

by Anna Bowen

From clarinet lessons to marimba bands, from the Dunedin Ukulele Jam to Band Quest, music at Tahuna Normal Intermediate School is buzzing.

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Tahuna Intermediate Orchestra RESET

by Anna Bowen

Orchestra orientation meeting Tuesday morning 11 June

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