Supporting young and upcoming musicians of Greater Geelong
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At the Musical Society of Geelong Inc. our focus is on young musicians of Greater Geelong, where we provide, Scholarships, Performance opportunities and Master Classes.
Are You a young performer?
Participation in performance has many benefits that cannot be obtained any other way, these include:
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Building self confidence
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Strengthening your concentration
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Learning how to react and connect to an audience
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Controlling performance anxiety
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Honing your technical skills
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Receiving expert feedback
We do understand performing can be daunting for many, and here at the Musical Society of Geelong Inc. many of our members have gone through this experience and all the members are here to support you.
Would you like to be a member?
The role of a member is to help fund the activities provided by the Musical Society of Geelong Inc. through a small subscription fee, help in any way in running events etc. if you can ( there is no obligation). Come to our events and enjoy the musical talent of our up and coming musicians.
We warmly welcome and thank all volunteers and donations to the Society and the Scholarships. If you wish to become a member, either active or passive, visit the membership or contact page and support us further.
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER
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Dear Friends and Members,
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This 60th year certainly has proved the need for what we do, and what we offer young music students in Geelong, with great success in the 60th Anniversary Dinner and the recent Scholarships last week.
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After 19 entries last year, we were pleased to see 37 young classical musicians apply this year: covering all 5 sections and from a wider range of schools.
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We even had to ask 2 adjudicators to assist with the auditions, to pick the 14 students to participate in the Finals. We thank Rose Humphrey and Carmel Edwards for their stellar preliminary adjudicating.
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The Finals were held at R.W. Gibson Music Performance Centre at Christian College Senior School in Highton, with Roger Heagney Adjudicating: a lovely cycle of Roger returning to Geelong, as he was the first President of the Musical Society of Geelong. We sincerely thank CCG and Fiona Gardner, and Roger for their great assistance and support.
There was a very supportive audience, the standard was pleasingly quite high and the winners were:
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String: Oscar Wang
Woodwind: Katie Gardner
Brass: Felix Stanford (Dawson Scholarship)
Vocal: Cuan Bester
Piano: Matthew Kweh
President’s Award: Alexis Meara
Onwards and upwards. Information regarding our AGM and Social evening on Thursday 20th November will follow: save the date and Bring a Friend.
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Kristine Mellens President.