Williamwood High School’s 2^nd Music Festival took place at 7pm on the 10^th October in the school’s Conference Suite. Our esteemed judges; Celine Donoghue and John Cavanagh were most impressed with the large variety of styles of music performed – from the delicate tones of the clarsach, to the fantastic, patriotic bagpipe music performed by some of Williamwood High School’s skilful pipers.

After some deliberation, the judges chose Luka as the winner of the Junior Category. Luka performed thrilling guitar solos of Ozzy Osborne’s exciting Sato and Kick Start my Heart by the Motley Krew, with Elias, also on the guitar, being awarded the junior runner up for his convincing versions of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and the Black Keys’ Lonely Boy.

The Senior Category was dominated by Tom’s energetic and exciting performances of Dark Matter and Island Magic on the drumkit, with the runner up being Erin, who accompanied herself singing on the guitar. Erin performed her own original song, called Goodbye, and also played an imaginative cover of Nena’s 99 Red Balloons. Her soulful recital was recognised as being mature and expressive.

The Rising Star was named as Caitlin, who also accompanied herself on the guitar. Her performances of Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran and Radio Active by the Imagine Dragons were described as thoughtful and sensitive.

Thanks to all who attended, and who contributed to such a great night. An extra special thanks to Celine and John, who provided the pupils some fine points in performance skills and some enthusiastic, well-deserved encouragement.

The pupils of Williamwood High School invite you to Be Our Guest as we present the smash hit Broadway musical Beauty and the Beast! Disney’s Beauty and the Beast tells the timeless story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and a young prince cursed by an enchantress to spend his life as a hideous beast. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end. But time is running out, and if the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

5^th, 6^th and 7^th December 2017, 7.30pm
£6 adults/£4 concession

Tickets can be purchased from the Performing Arts department or school office.

All pupils that are going on the New York trip in October 2018 should have the full deposit of £150 paid by the end of September.

The Williamwood High School Music Festival is taking place on the 10 October in the Music Department at 7pm.

A number of very talented pupils have successfully auditioned to compete in either the junior or senior sections. Pupils will be performing an interesting programme on a variety of instruments.

Tickets will be available from the Performing Arts Department from 26 September.

Please see Ms Parker in the music department for further details.

The Williamwood Music Festival is on the 10^th October and pupils are invited to audition for Junior or Senior categories. Auditions take place on the week beginning 4 September.

Two distinguished musicians; John Cavanagh and Celine Donoghue, have agreed to adjudicate the festival.

The Performing Arts Department is keen to encourage musicians to audition for the festival that perform e.g., Folk, Rock, Blues, Jazz and Pipe music.

The Festival is open to all pupils within the school, and you do not need to otherwise be involved in the Performing Arts Department to audition.

Tickets will be available from the Performing Arts Department from the 18 September. Donations at the door.

Click on the image to find out what the school show is going to be.

Following on from our fantastic productions of Hairspray and Blood Brothers, the Performing Arts department are delighted to be launching this year’s school show on Tuesday 13^th June at 12.35pm in Drama 1. Come along to learn all about our exciting new venture and the magic that awaits us this December! Pupils interested in performing and production are welcome to come along, where more details on auditions and jobs involved will be available.

We hope to see many of you there!

Congratulations to Miss Lindsay’s S3 class winners of the S3 Class Battle on Thursday 1st June.  Judges Mr Harrison and Mrs Selbie were very impressed by the enthusiasm of the students and the variety of performances from all three classes.  Each class performed a group performance with the whole class, a small ensemble and two solo items.  Included in the wide range of music was a four mallet piece on marimba, Michael Jackson medley, YMCA, Galway Girl, Shape of You mash up and David Bowies Heroes.

Congratulations to the following pupils on their success in their recent Associated Board and Trinity examinations.

ABRSM

S1 pupils:  Madeline Boyd passed Grade 5 cello, Orla Cockton passed Grade 2 piano, Ross Gourlay Grade 2 clarinet with distinction, Sophie McAulay Grade 2 clarinet with merit, Ciara McCaughey and Maddie Spencer Grade 2 flute with merit.

S2 pupils:  Anna Ghiro Grade 5 theory with distinction, James A Ross Grade 5 bassoon with merit

S3 pupil:  Ben Drake Grade 7 bassoon with merit

S5 pupil:  Christopher Vettraino Grade 8 percussion with distinction

Trinity

S1 pupil:  Owen Davies Grade 2 Rock and Pop guitar with distinction

S2 pupil: Orla O’Shea passed Grade 5 clarinet

S3 pupils:  Josef Heidinger Grade 6 bassoon with distinction, Caitlyn Marcinek Grade 6 voice with merit, Cara Martin Grade 5 clarinet with merit

S5 pupil:  Campbell Lang Grade 8 piano with distinction

S6 pupil:  Andrew McCroskie passed Grade 8 piano

Congratulations to S3 pupil Liana Storey who won both the Baroque Piano Solos and the Debussy and Ravel Piano Solos classes on Friday.  She then was invited to compete in the Piano Solos Premier Class which she also won.  Liana has now been invited to perform at the Last Night of the Festival and can compete for the Ailie Cullen Memorial Prize.  We wish her all the best on Saturday night.