Our Senior students put on two outstanding shows for our annual year-end music concerts. The Junior ensembles performed on Tuesday, May 26th, and our Senior ensembles had a chance to showcase on the evening of Wednesday, May 27th.
Watch the highlights from the Senior ensemble night:
Ragazza: “Maybe Someday”:
Alannah, Gr. 12: “You’ve Got a Friend”:
Bambina & Ragazza: “Lullaby of Birdland”:
Ragazza: “Butterfly” and “Lean On Me”:
Chorista: “Seal Lullaby”, “Shine On Me”, “Rolling in the Deep”:
Chorista Concert Choir competed at the Vancouver Kiwanis Choral Festival on Friday, April 10. Watch their performance below. Over the four day event, there were 58 choirs performing (53 school choirs / 5 community choirs). Only four school choirs of the 53 could progressed to the provincial festival:
Best Under Age 19: Magee
Best Under 16: Saint Thomas More
Best Under 12: West Point Grey
Best All Male: Seycove
These are all fine ensembles and we congratulate them heartily.
There were also three scholarships that were given:
Saint Thomas More Chamber Choir
New West Secondary
York House School
I am so proud of our singers’ performance. Here are some of the comments from the three adjudicators: Dr. Andrea Ramsey (University of Colorado); Dr. Dominic Gregorio (University of Regina); and Dr. Adam Con (University of Victoria and former choral teacher right here at YHS!):
Fantastic attention to dynamics and such dancing, lovely articulation.
Great French diction – Merci Mme LeMay!
Omigosh, this was so wonderful.
Honored to hear you sing my tune (Andrea Ramsey’s Letter from a Girl to the World).
Wow, wow, wow! Your program was varied, interesting, performed with exquisite musicality, expression, intelligence and strength.
So good to know that choral singing is alive and well at York House.
So while we did not get chosen to represent our age group at the Performing Arts BC Festival, we had a great time and learned a lot.
Many thanks to Mr. Bach, Mme LeMay, Ms. Waterhouse and Tim Laithwaite, for supporting the girls last Friday.
