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Harrison Smith, Isabella Garbett and April Oakley with debating coach Jacqueline Yoder and their
Junior Champions trophy.
Best Sound
Ella Harris and Sophie Wells –
Co-op
Best Editing
Grace Dephoff –
Tied
Best Screenplay/Script
William Lu and Year 13 Film class –
Inside the filmmaking process
Best Special Effects/Animation
Grace Dephoff –
Tied
Best Make-up/Costume
Sophie Wells –
Co-op
Year 10 student Grace Dephoff’s
short film
Tied
was selected as one
of 15 finalists for Tropfest Jnr 2014
Australia.
Festival of the Spoken Word
The Festival of the Spoken Word
featured a number of outstanding
speakers and interesting topics. All
speakers were excellent but there
could only be one winner for each
level up to Year 12. Congratulations to:
Year 9: Mitchell Radcliffe; Year 10:
Lizzie Stevenson; Year 11: April Oakley;
Year 12: Alex Lye.
Jazz
At the Southern Jam Jazz Festival
in Marlborough, the Big Band were
awarded gold in the Big Band category
and walked away the competition’s
overall champions. Other medal wins
included a gold for the Jazz Combo in
the Jazz Small Ensemble event and
a silver for the Junior Jazz Band, for
the third year in a row. A number of
individual awards were presented to
StAC students: Ben Rainey (Year 12)
for Best Trombone, Gus Ellerm
(Year 12) for Best Trumpet, Sam Hollis
(Year 13) for Best Bass and Liam
Murray (Year 13) for Best Rhythm
Section Musician.
Orchestra
The St Andrew’s College Orchestra,
made up of students from Years 4–13,
took part in the Christchurch Schools’
Orchestra Festival at the Aurora Centre
in Burnside. Among the performances
they played a stunning rendition of
Verdi’s
Grand March from Aida
.
Vocal
At the Dunedin Junior Vocal
competitions, two StAC students
excelled. Frances Campbell (Year
13) and Harry Grigg (Year 13) were
the winners of the 16 and U18 years
with Francis taking home the Otago
Daily Times Recital Cup, Madelene
Barkman Cup for national song,
Dunedin Civic Choir Scholarship Cup,
Winners of Best Film Sophie Wells and
Ella Harris.
Chambers Family Award test song,
Twelfth Fred Fok Challenge Cup for
folk song and the Lady Celia Wright
Tray song in character. Harry was
awarded the Gladys Hedley Rosebowl
for the highest combined score in
sacred song and vocal solo, the
Brandwell Moller Cup for popular
song and the cup for vocal solo.
Frances and Harry jointly won the
Rush Family Trophy for action duet
and Craig Family Trophy for vocal duet.
Harry and Frances have also been
selected for the 2015 NZ Opera Chorus
alongside Nathaniel McClintock
(Year 13) who has been named as a
first reserve.
Harry, who recently appeared as
Tenor soloist with the CSO at their
annual Proms concert, has been
awarded both the 2014 Dame Malvina
Major Cecily Maccoll Scholarship
and a Hurunui District Council
Secondary School Young Achievers
Award for singing. He will put these
funds towards his Bachelor of Music
degree program majoring in vocal
performance at Otago next year.
Archie Milligan (Year 7) and Danielle
Musgrave (Year 6) recently appeared
in the Riccarton Players production
of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical
‘The Likes of Us’ with Archie taking
a lead and Danielle a member of the
children’s ensemble.
Daniel Bridgman (Year 4) will be one
of two boys sharing the singing role of
Tiny Tim in the upcoming Royal New
Zealand ‘Does Dickens’ production at
the Isaac Theatre Royal.
Emma Williams (Year 11) performing in the
Orchestra at the Christchurch Orchestra
Festival.
Joseph Yoon (Year 10)