On 27 October in the Westburn School Hall, the musicians in SMP performed to an audience of their families and special guests for their final Appraisal Concert of the year. A few weeks earlier, we had a fun dress up ALCHEMY concert to celebrate our 2021 MAGIC, SCIENCE & MUSIC theme! Please enjoy our videos

The Final Appraisal Concert for 2021 - 27 October, 6.30pm.

All of the students were very well prepared, and played beautifully. After singing together as a choir the John William's song "Double Trouble", each child played a piece that they had prepared for the concert with their instrumental teacher and workshopped and rehearsed within our SMP classes. As they performed in the concert, the children were appraised by Dr. Patrick Shepherd and Mr. Chris Petch who were very impressed with all the performances. At the end of the evening there were speeches and special scholarships and awards presented to some of the students. We had a number of very special guests who always comment on how much they enjoy seeing the children improve over the year. They are also blown away by the talent and skill our young musicians have. 

Year 5 performers

Lillian Hu, viola student of Anne Robinson, “Habanera” by G. Bizet

Audrey Sun, violin student of Bistra Dimitrova, “Donkey Doodle” by W. Kroll

Zara Crossin, violin student of Carlo Ballara, “Allegro. 1st movement, Concerto in G, Op. 3 No. 3, RV 310” by A. Vivaldi

Year 6 performers

Cheryl Cheng, violin student of Anne Robinson, “Serenade” by G. Cassado

Charlie Saunders, percussion student of Aiden Stewart,” Wake Up” by Rage Against The Machine

Samuel Hu, violin student of Lois McCallum, “Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6, 3rd Mvt.” by A Vivaldi/ Arr. T. Nachez

Momoyo Kosaka, piano student of Michael Endres, “Sonata No.1 Hob. XVI/8” by J. Haydn

Annie Zhang, violin student of Lois McCallum, “Gavotte from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, BWV 1007” by J.S.Bach

Kate Croker, trumpet student of Antonio Dimitrov, “A Whole New World” by A. Menken

Stacey Huang, piano student of Chi Ing Wu, “Sonata in F minor, Kp. 239” by D. Scarlatti

Sophia Yang, flute student of Anna Just, “February's Gentle Rain” by R. Kershaw

Year 7 performers

Audrey Huang, piano student of Chi Ing Wu, “Sonate” by Mozart

Sherry Zhang, piano student of Chi Ing Wu, “Carousel” by Sylvie Bodorová.

Year 8 performers

Joseph Ke, violin student of Iryna Ionenko, “Premier Solo, Op77” by Ch. Dancla

Isaac Brennan, guitar student of Alan Dixon, “Russian Bear” by G. Ryan

Billy Wen, piano student of Allan Liu, “Mazurka in G Minor” by F. Chopin

Justin Wang, clarinet student of Jonathan Prior, “Fantasy Piece 2nd mvt.” by N. Gade

Jonny Croker, trombone student of Karl Margevka, “Sonata in F major, 1st mt” by B. Marcello

Amanda Yang, flute student of Anna Just, “From Ragtime to Riches”by Mark Nightingale.

Michael Khor, piano student of Neville Baird, “Rondo Capriccissio” by Felix Mendelssohn

Awards

Dr Shepherd, President of SMP, spoke to the audience about the Specialist Music Programme and then invited some of our VIP guests to present the awards they generously provide Westburn's SMP each year.

ROSL Scholarship of $1000 presented by Lorraine Logan from The Royal Over-Seas League, awarded to Michael Khor

Soroptimist Westburn Music Scholarship of $1000 Jo Mitchell from Soroptimist International, Christchurch, awarded to Samuel Hu

Pritchard Trophy presented by Carolyn Pritchard, life member of the SMP Council, awarded to Justin Wang

The David Sell Scholarship of $1000 presented by Chris Petch, Director SMP Burnside High School, presented to Joseph Ke

The Treasurer’s Award of $500 presented by Victoria Panckhurst on behalf of Philip Smith, SMP Treasurer, awarded to Jonny Croker

The Westburn Award of $250 presented by Victoria Panckhurst, awarded to Amanda Yang

We congratulate our year 8 students who go onto exciting adventures at secondary school next year. Amanda Yang has been awarded a music scholarship to St Margaret's College, and Justin Wang is the music scholar for Christ's College. Billy Wen will undertake Performance Music studies at Burnside High School, and Jonny Croker, Isaac Brennan, Michael Khor, and Joseph Ke will continue studies as SMP students at Burnside High School in their more comprehensive instrumental schools of Brass, Jazz, Piano and Strings. Congratulations to Michael Khor for being awarded Burnside High School's $1000 Westburn to Burnside SMP Scholarship, and Joseph Ke for being awarded the $1000 most outstanding applicant for SMP Burnside in 2021.

My heartfelt congratulations go to ALL of our 2021 SMP students who have worked hard and contributed so much to the SMP programme at Westburn as well as being wonderfully generous, supportive, music loving stars setting a stellar example to all of the excellent musicians we have at Westburn School.

The Specialist Music Programme at Westburn Primary School warmly thank:

The Soroptimist Society and the Royal OverSeas League for their ongoing and generous support of the Specialist Music Programme at Westburn Primary School.

This evening’s appraisers Dr Patrick Shepherd, President of the Specialist Music Programme, and, Mr Chris Petch HOD Music and Director of SMP at Burnside High School, for appraising this concert and providing considerable support to Westburn's SMP

The Specialist Music Programme Council, especially Carolyn Pritchard and Philip Smith

Our collaborative pianist, and tutor Mr Richard Oswin.

String group tutor, Ms Rachel Thompson.

Mr Phil Blackburn from New World Ilam, and the Foodstuffs Community Trust General Grant for audio visual equipment used to record the concert.

Mr David Martin for his aural and engineering expertise! Which resulted with David designing, producing and financing the new frame for our piano.

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, for providing workshops, concert tickets, and workshops throughout the year, and the "Friends of the CSO" for providing support and concert opportunities to our children. Please see attached flier for details of an upcoming event- we would love to have some of the "homecrowd" in attendance! Please do buy a ticket if you're free to attend!

Principal Ms Susan Jennison and the staff of Westburn School, as well as the children’s instrumental teachers and families for the encouragement given to our very special SMP students.