Recent Regent House Music Events!
Spring Concert
We were delighted to host our Spring Concert this year on Thursday 23 March.
Our Senior Concert Band kicked off the evening with the impressive ‘Selections from Incredibles 2 and Stevie Wonder in Concert. Their attention to detail and musicality was evident in their performances. Our Junior Choir enjoyed performing ‘Jai Ho’ and the emotive ‘You Say’. Well done to Betsy Andrews (soloist for Jai Ho) and Chloe Connor who performedthe opening of You Say beautifully! Our String Orchestra played ‘Funny Fiddlin’, ‘Prelude from Hansel and Gretel’ and Haydn’s ‘Allegro from Concerto Grosso’.
Our newly formed Brass Ensemble led by Miss Eagleson gave a powerful performance of ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’. Our Junior Concert Band is a first port of call for our young musicians. They impressed the audience with their performances of ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ and ‘The Groovemeister’ and ‘Smoke on the Water’. We are excited to hear their performances in the future and to see these young musicians move up to Senior Concert Band. Our Senior Choir never fails to disappoint and performed the rousing ‘Nothin’ Gonna Stumble’ and the beautiful ‘Ave Verum’ by Karl Jenkins.
Our Chamber Choir have had a busy year of workshops and events and performed the impressive ‘John the Revelator’ complete with syncopated clapping! They captivated the audience with their performance of ‘Daemon Irrepit Callidus’ One of the performances of the night was certainly ‘Child of Wonder’, a recent work by Eric Whitacre. Our Junior Chamber Choir are always up for a challenge and learned the rhythmically complex ‘Geantraí’ and ‘Hushabye Mountain’ from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Our Big Band always have everyone’s toes tapping and this year was no different! They delighted the audience with ‘Runaway Baby’, ‘Forget You’ and ‘Walk the Dinosaur’ complete with choregraphed walking through the audience!
Our smaller groups String Ensemble, Flute Ensemble and Saxophone Quintet showcased our musicians. Well done to the String Ensemble which was led by Year 14 pupil Kathryn Matchett. Our Rock Groups continue be very popular. Our Junior Rock Group performed ‘With or Without You’ and our Senior Rock Group performed ‘We are Young’.
Our two Young Musician of the Year winners had the honour of performing solos this year. Izzy showcased her amazing technical skills and musicality with a performance of Horovitz’s Sonatina for clarinet and piano. Luke McMordie gave an impressive performance of ‘Some Skunk Funk’. Our night ended with our Senior and Junior Choir performing ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’ with solos from Katherine Todd, Maria Napier and Evan McClean and a surprise dance break from Peter Murray.
Thank you to all our music staff and our wonderful musicians for such an enjoyable evening!
A Royal Tribute
Our Chamber Choir were delighted to be asked to perform with The Bugles, Pipes and Bands of the Royal Irish Regiment at the Waterfront Hall. Our pupils arrived at the venue at 3pm and had the opportunity to rehearse the joint piece with the Chamber Choir of Ballyclare High School. They then rehearsed their own pieces before grabbing some pizza and playing a few games of Uno before the event began!
We are so proud of the performances that they gave and how they conducted themselves during the day. They were an absolute credit to the school and performed at such high standard. Well done Chamber Choir!
