St Andrew’s Cathedral School United Kingdom music tour www.sacs.nsw.edu.au Sydney Square, Sydney 2018 tour St Andrew’s Cathedral School Welcomes you A message from our Head of School and Lord mayor of Sydney We are immensely great centres of Edinburgh, Liverpool, Please visit us if you are in Sydney, you excited about our students Cambridge and London, with a few will be most welcome. stops along the way. travelling to Scotland and Thank you to all our hosts and to all England - this trip is the those who come to hear us perform highlight of our school what we hope you will consider a truly music program this year. special program. We bring you music from contemporary Australian composers, The forebears of many of our students hauntingly beautiful musical echoes of have migrated from the British Isles. our ancient and first Australians, Many of our students themselves are precious sacred choral pieces and an English or Scottish, while others, exciting repertoire of modern and Australian born, have British parents or traditional orchestral pieces. We hope grandparents. For them, our music tour that you enjoy our performances as is a reconnection with their family heritage. much as we enjoy bringing them to you. England, Scotland and Australia are Our school is in the heart of Australia’s meshed together through many largest city, Sydney. Our city environment generations and a shared love of music. connects us to the diversity of cultures Whether traditional or modern; classical from around the world, and tours such or jazz; music speaks to all of us and as this help our students build strong helps strengthen our cultural ties. foundations for truly global connections DR JOHN COLLIER We are immensely grateful that our that in turn help create understanding Head of School students will visit and perform in the and peace for all. On behalf of the City Music is a powerful medium for uniting people across cultures by sharing of Sydney, I am proud experiences, ideas and emotions. I am to offer my support to pleased the students will have the the students and staff of chance to expand their knowledge and appreciation of other cultures and to St Andrew’s Cathedral showcase the depth of Sydney’s School for their 2018 creative talent. music tour of the I congratulate the students and United Kingdom. teachers on all their hard work and hours of practice in preparing for the St Andrew’s Cathedral School has a tour. I wish you a rewarding and safe long tradition of providing an engaging adventure. and high quality musical education program. I am delighted its students I also wish the audiences a highly will have the opportunity during this enjoyable experience. tour to enhance their musical knowledge CLOVER MOORE and to perform on an international stage. Lord Mayor of Sydney Heritage and history of music education St Andrew’s Cathedral School renowned for its music St Andrew’s Cathedral musical charter but in ways that could Overseas music tours build on the school’s School in Sydney, not have been imagined at the end of already exceptional music standards the nineteenth century. St Andrew’s has and develop cultural and ambassadorial Australia has been undertaken a series of highly successful understanding among our talented renowned for its long music tours: in 2001 to Italy and the young Australian musicians. Our and illustrious music United Kingdom; in 2002 to the United performance repertoire is extensive and Kingdom and Ireland; in 2004 to the continues to feature works by many and choral history. United States; in 2006 to Hungary, talented Australian composers including The school’s founding Austria, Germany and France, to Hong Ian Cooper, Ross Edwards, Stephen in 1885 was based on Kong for the 2007 International Choral Leek, James Madsen, Nigel Westlake, Conference, a European tour in 2008 Percy Grainger and Dan Walker. providing choristers for to cities including Prague, Dresden, The school’s musical alumni include St Andrew’s Cathedral Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Brussels and Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano), Simon with “a high class Amsterdam, in 2010 to South Africa, Tedeschi (piano), Niki Vasilakis (violin), education based on a tour to Greece and Italy in 2012, an John Antill (composer), International incredible tour to the USA in 2014 and a tenors Stuart Skelton, Andrew Goodwin, Church principles, tour to USA tour in 2014. In 2016 the Richard Anderson and Andrew Hansen, in addition to a school undertook a highly successful French horn virtuoso and conductor musical training”. tour to Europe - notably Berlin, Leipzig, Barry Tuckwell, as well as one half of Salzburg, Vienna, Paris and Villers- Australia’s internationally recognised The school’s founder, Dr Alfred Barry, Bretonneux. indie rock band the ‘High Highs’, and extended the philosophy of the school’s half of the ARIA award-winning duo, Previous tours have seen the school choir musical endeavours by stating that a The Presets: Julian Hamilton. and orchestra perform in such venues as major operating factor should be the the Liszt Academy in Budapest, La This 2018 tour will travel to Edinburgh, “study of music, not merely a technical Madeleine in Paris, The Orff Institute in Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, training but an educational influence Salzburg, St Peters Basilica in Rome, Oxford and London and will feature which is daily gaining in all thoughtful Kennedy Library in Boston, Disneyland music of Australian composers, popular minds”. In 1885, 27 boys attended the in Annaheim, Euro Disney in Paris and choral and instrumental repertoire school, 22 of whom were choristers. an Anzac Service and concert in performed by choir, orchestra, wind In 2016 the school has grown to include quintet, rock band, mixed ensemble and Villers-Bretonneux. There have also girls and comprises approximately 1250 outstanding soloists. As this year marks been master classes and lessons at students from Kindergarten to Year 12. the 100th anniversary of the end of Stuttgarter Musikschule with Alexander World War 1, we will also present some From its birth, the school has been Scherf and in Budapest with Laszlo commemorative and Anzac concerts, located in the very middle of Sydney’s Mezo of Bartok String Quartet. Our including a performance at the central business district. Now it has students have performed in cathedrals Westminster Abbey Anzac Day service. campuses in two multi-storey buildings at Worcester, Gloucester, Coventry, adjacent to St Andrew’s Cathedral and Oxford, Windsor and Westminster in the Sydney Town Hall. The educational the UK and at Trinity College, St Patrick’s experience St Andrew’s provides is Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral defined and enriched by its close in Dublin, St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick, relationship with the beating heart of Ireland, Cochran Chapel at Phillip’s this great world class city. Academy in Andover, Washington St Andrew’s musical development into Cathedral, Berlin Cathedral and the 21st century continues to fulfil its Salzburg Cathedral in Austria. St Andrew’s Cathedral School Music Tour 2018 | 1 Our nation’s first people Our Aboriginal heritage Sudent profile St Andrew’s Cathedral Celebrating the diversity of the many Aboriginal nations within Australia, School and Gawura our tour program includes music acknowledge the original featuring a range of Aboriginal and owners of the land on Torres Strait Islander languages from around our country. Australian Author which our school is built: Dorothy Mackeller (1885-1968) the Gadigal people of the expressed her love for the landscape of Australia beautifully in her poem Eora Nation. We pay our My Country. respects to elders past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres My Country – Strait Islander people Dorothy Mackeller within our community. (Verse 2) Aboriginal Australia is made up of many distinct nations, and originally as I love a sunburnt country, many as 600 languages existed prior to A land of sweeping plains, colonisation. Many traditional languages Of ragged mountain ranges, have now been lost and it is estimated Of droughts and flooding rains. that as few as 200 languages are used I love her far horizons, around Australia today to communicate I love her jewel-sea, the culture and traditions of the Her beauty and her terror Aboriginal people. Language is a The wide brown land for me! powerful connection to land, culture and traditions for Aboriginal people. In Gawura, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School that forms part of St Andrew’s Cathedral School, the Wiradjuri language is taught. The Wiradjuri people are the first inhabitants of the area around Bathurst district in New South Wales; they are people of the mountains, rivers and plains whose heritage is rich and ancient. Wiradjuri people have been living in that region for at least 40,000 years. 2 | St Andrew’s Cathedral School Music Tour 2018 Izak Rigney Sebastian Violinist and didgeridoo player Izak Rigney-Sebastian joined our indigenous school Gawura in its first year 2007 as a kindergarten student. Izak is from the Ngarrindjeri Nation, Point McLeah Mission, Raukkan in South Australia. There are hundreds of indigenous nations in Australia, based on language but often corresponding to geographical areas from coast to coast across our vast land. Several of Izak’s great grand uncles fought in World War 1: Wilfred Gordon Rigney in the Australian Army 5th Pioneer Batallion, Rufus Gordon Rigney in the 48th Australian Infantry Battalion and Cyril Rigney who served in the 43 Australian Infantry Battalion fighting in Belgium and France. Izak’s great grandfather is David Unaipon who is pictured on the Australian $50 note. David Unaipon David Ngunaitponi - Izak’s great (born Ngunaitponi) is featured as a grandfather preaching at St Andrew’s Preacher, writer and inventor, who Cathedral Sydney in 1939.