Children's Performing Groups
PETER LOUGHEED SCHOOL ENSEMBLE
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020 / le VENDREDI 17 AVRIL 2020
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m / 16 h à 16 h 30 |
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CALGARY, AB
CALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION CONDUCTOR / CHEF DE CHŒUR: Liz DiMarino |
About the Group: The Peter Lougheed School Orff Ensemble is comprised of about 30 whacky and wonderful non-auditioned grade 9 students who gave up a gym class once a week to hang out and play instruments with Mrs. D! The ensemble was created specifically for this conference and only just over half of the students are enrolled in music class at school. In December, they started meeting on Friday mornings for an hour in hopes to create a fantastic performance for Vision 2020!
Due to the recent addition of a school band program, these students do not have general music as a class in grade 8/9 and therefore meet as a “club”. Many of them have had limited musical training and performance experience, but they enjoy performing and work well together! On Monday, April 20th, they will represent their school at Calgary’s annual Orff the Wall concert and reprise their performance a third time in May at the community high school where they feed into. Peter Lougheed School opened in the fall of 2016 and is located in the NE, Calgary’s most culturally diverse quadrant of the city. |
THE KIDS FROM LaPERLEEDMONTON, AB
EDMONTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONDUCTOR / CHEF DE CHŒUR: Don Myers |
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020 / le SAMEDI 18 AVRIL 2020
9:50 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. / 9 h 50 à 10 h 15 About the Group: KLP is an extracurricular group consisting of 30 students from Grades 4, 5, and 6. Practices for KLP began as a weekly noon hour meeting of a core group of 13 Grade 6 students in October. Due to Christmas prep, the group disbanded in mid-November and reassembled in its final form in January 2020. At the time of writing, practice is a twice weekly noon hour meeting. Practice times will no doubt intensify as the performance date nears.
LaPerle School does not have habitually meeting music groups. Music groups and their membership are formed in relation to the activity the group will be involved in. For the last two years KLP has participated in the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s Adopt-a-Player Program. Previous to that, KLP performed at Edmonton Public School’s Night of Music. The criteria for membership in this Vision 2020 Group: keenness, classroom leadership, and the ability to rise to a challenge! |
ÉCOLE SOUTH POINTE SCHOOL ORFF CLUBWINNIPEG, MB
PEMBINA TRAILS SCHOOL DIVISION CONDUCTORS / CHEFS DE CHŒUR: Amanda Ciavarelli, Randal Bychuk, and Jessica Taves |
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2020 / le SAMEDI 18 AVRIL 2020
2:45 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. / 14 h 45 à 15 h 10 About the Group: The École South Pointe School Orff Club is comprised of 33 students from grades 5-8. We are thrilled to have been selected to perform at the Vision 2020 Carl Orff Canada Conference in Edmonton, AB!
École South Pointe School is a kindergarten – grade 8 school and is part of the Pembina Trails School Division in Winnipeg, MB. Members of our Orff Club are non-auditioned and, while they are from different grade levels, have created a community of musicians through their love of music. The group is extracurricular and meets for weekly after school and lunch hour rehearsals. They are directed by Orff-trained, elementary music specialists Amanda Ciavarelli, Randal Bychuk, and Jessica Taves. |
