Music
The Hills Grammar Music faculty offers a wide range of co-curricular ensembles for instrumentalists and vocalists in all years. Each year, new students are placed into an ensemble appropriate for their age and practical level through informal auditions.
Choirs and Vocal Groups
Instrumental Groups
Instrumental groups are offered to students from our youngest ECEC students through to Year 12. Opportunities are available in Brass, Woodwind, Percussion, Strings and range from beginner bands through to our most experienced players in our Senior Concert Band, Senior Orchestra and Stage Band.
Our groups are invited to perform at many events on the School calendar throughout the year and are also involved in various community events.
Music Camps & Festivals
HICES Music Festival is a combined schools event organised by the Heads of Independent Co-Educational Schools. The Festival is held at The Tops Conference Centre and Sydney Town Hall. Students involved in the Festival are placed into an instrumental or choral ensemble and rehearse for the Festival Concert, held on a Wednesday evening in August at the Sydney Town Hall. The Festival program run on a biennial basis, with the Years 5-8 Festival and Jazz Academy in one year, followed by the Years 7-12 and World Music Academy in the following year.
Private Tuition
Hills Grammar offers lessons for students in the following areas:
- Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass
- Woodwind: Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and
- Saxophone
- Brass: Trumpet, Trombone and
- Euphonium/Baritone
- Percussion: Drums and Mallet Percussion\
- Piano
- Voice
- Musicianship
- Guitar
Lessons are generally 30 minutes in duration and are held during normal timetabled school days at which time the student will proceed to the allocated Music Room. Lessons times are scheduled on a rotational basis during school hours for all students in Years 1-10.
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