Music Trip to France

Once again pupils from St Wilfrid’s music department performed on the international stage in Europe. This year’s school music trip to France featured pupils from the school orchestra, choir, jazz band and music technology students. The pupils performed in three concerts in different locations in Normandy. The final concert in St Aubin was a great success with a large audience made up of local people. The local press were also present to celebrate the St Wilfrid’s concert and took pictures to be displayed in St Aubin’s local newspaper.

Disco Inferno Tickets NOW ON SALE

Since September students from St Wilfrid's Catholic High School have been rehearsing

extensively for the annual musical production. This year they will be taking the audience back to the 1970s with an exciting collaboration of singing, dancing and acting based around the fictional nighclub the "Disco Inferno". The show is full of songs that the audience can singalong to, with favourites such as "Celebration", "YMCA" and "Play that Funky Music". "Disco Inferno" will be shown in Brunseels Hall at St Wilfrids friom Tuesday 5th February to Friday 8th February at 7pm. Doors open at 6.45pm. Tickets are £6 (adults) and £4 (concessions). If you are interested in booking tickets you can contact the Performing Arts Department on 01977 691000 (ext 212). Michelle Birkett

Recording Studio!

The music department have recently moved into a state of the art building comprising of 47 dedicated music computers using the latest Sibelius and Cubase music technology software. A dedicated Mackie 24 track recording studio with mixing room and adjacent classroom can now be accessed by pupils with the opportunity to compose and arrange their own pieces using professional sounds and microphones in order to produce professional sounding cds. Pupils now have the opportunity to learn how to arrange, produce and post produce their own pieces before mastering them down to cd. For the first time pupils can make use of equipment that can only be found in a dedicated professional recording studio and produce work of a standard for use in the professional media market.

Rob Clarke Nov 2006