PRIDE OF WORK AND SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS AT BARZAAR
Last Meeting
Venue: Goodwood Institute
Event: Rotary Youth Music Awards
Special Guests: Rotary District Governor Jeff Neale and Jenny, Hon David Pisoni MP, Mayor Michael and Roslyn Hewitson, AG Helen Charles, Dr Janelle Fletcher, Brigid Tipping, Helen Lewis......and of course the musical performers and adjudicators,Thomas Saunders, Tim Frahn and Terri Dichiera
Attendance: A multitude
YOUNG MUSICAL TALENT ON DISPLAY
Proceedings were launched at 7.00pm by compere Lenard Sciancalepore (Rotaract). Formalities and introductions followed. Brendan Kenny outlined how the awards operate, provided a story about the Rotary Youth projects and thanked sponsors: Winston Music, Yamaha, Tabor, Billy Hyde Music, Derringer Music, Size Music, Harrisons Music and our club..
We tuned in with a piece by Olivia Evans (a winner of the competition last year) called Quiet.
Original music opened the competition with excellent renditions. followed by covers (released music) in the 4 age categories. and then the open specials of Digital Music, Percussion and Ensemble. Tim Frahn presented the outcomes on behalf of the adjudicators.
And the results were:
Original Music
Year 7-9 Winner: Chiara Bernadi Unley HS (Runner Up Rebecca Wall)
Year 10-12 Winner: Iris Nissen Cabra Dominican College (Runner Up Abigail Henderson)
Open Winner: Lilli Fullwood Tabor Music (Runner Up Haylee Cain)
Covers
Year 5-6 Winner Plato Minyaev St Ignatius College Runner Up Banita Narula
Year 7-9 Winner Abigail Sharp Xavier College Gawler Runner Uo Marco Raguri
Year 10-12 Winner Antonia Pajor Cabra Dominican College Runner Up Chelsea Schar-Grant
Open Winner Lilli Fullwood Tabor College Runner Up Eiizabeth Lovelock
Digital Music: Winner Cooper Thiele Tabor College Runner Up Haylee Cain
Percussion; Winner Toby Strelen Dernancourt PS Runner Up Harrison Matthews
Ensemble: Winner Kelly Ramsay & Lilli Fulwood Duet Tabor College ( Runner Up Seth Clarke, Nicholas Tarasenko, Cooper Clark)
It was a privilege to witness the talent on display with plenty of wow moments.
A variety of luminaries like our DG, Mayor and local MP presented the certificates. Ken did a fine job opening and closing our meeting in one breath.
The superstar (Best in Show) for the evening was Lilli Fullwood from Tabor (see above). Emcee Lenard orchestrated the event in style.
After the thank you's we all went home happy!
Great job everyone, particularly Rhonda (unfortunately away with Covid) and Janelle and her crew from Tabor........see below with Mikala the arranger to the right
Hopefully we will have a few more photos for next week's bulletin......the editor's 'box-brownie' phone has trouble with stage lighting.
FISH TANK
On 19 May Rhonda, Trevor, Brendan, Greg and Stephen attended the Fish Tank presentations by young entrepreneurs of Unley at the Unley Town Hall..........our club sponsors this event. Another entertaining night was delivered despite glitches with videos. There was an array of innovative talent on display with the most difficult project to implement being sizing of women's clothing on-line. In the younger age group (12-17yo) 13 yo Tom was judged the best with his shoe deoderisers and Zoe prevailed in the older group (18-25yo) with her ecologically sustainable apparel. Results to be posted on Unley Council website shortly.
Note from Brendan Kenny
The Symphony by the Sea event is on 18 June......proceeds to assist ROMAC
A thank-you from Mish Simpson of Southern Koala and Echidna Rescue where Brendan and Bronwyn Kenny and Briony are committed volunteers
Rotary International News.
Academy enables gifted Ukrainian musicians to continue their dreams
By Alexander Ostrovski, a member of the Rotary Club of Dortmund-Romberge and director of the Phoenix Music Academy
More than 40 gifted young musicians from Ukraine are continuing their education through the Phoenix Music Academy in Dortmund, Germany.
Having grown up in Crimea, when it was both a part of the Soviet Union and then Ukraine, I was shocked when I saw the news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
From 2002 to 2008, I worked professionally with the Ukrainian national chamber orchestra, and before that, spent half my life in Moscow. I studied at the Moscow Conservatory where my colleagues were Russians and Ukrainians. Our differences didn’t matter. Ours is the musical tradition of Tchaikovsky, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. The brutal attacks that began 24 February trampled on this beautiful culture. In many ways, I feel personally attacked by the war.
My first thought was how can I help? As director of a music academy for gifted musicians, I have been helping children and young people from Ukraine continue their education in Dortmund, Germany.
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In the Ukrainian education model, musical training for the very talented starts as early as the first grade. At these special institutions, music is the main subject, while other subjects such as mathematics and science are secondary. It is a kind of vocational training with the goal of mastering music. The Phoenix Music Academy which I founded in Dortmund in 1998, is partners with several of these special music schools.
When the war started, I contacted the directors of several of these institutions with the following offer: As long as our capacity allows, we would accept Ukrainian music students wanting to maintain their education in the primary subject of music. They receive their instrumental lessons with us and, if necessary, a minor subject such as harmony, while they continue to get lessons in other subjects online from Ukraine.
We have accepted more than 40 students. For most of them, it is a question of existence. These are students who would be labeled “highly gifted” anywhere in the world. They place such a high value on their culture and musical education, that they simply can’t imagine a life without music.
With the help of many Rotary members and some other service clubs, we have been able to place students with families in Dortmund. A travel company helps bring the students to Germany via bus with the cost offset by Rotary members. Several of our students are staying with Rotarian families. The hosts are taking such great care of the students, that I almost feel like they have been adopted. It’s been a family environment from day one.
We have also organized a series of peace concerts with the money going to support our students. The concerts send a message of reconciliation and understanding. We play the works of Shostakovich, whose life and music reflected the problems faced by people in the Soviet Union post-World War II. It is very appropriate to play these works again.
Coffee Chat at Impressa, Unley Shopping Centre
10.30 am on the first Friday of the month is good for a chat with Rotary friends and a caffeine fix! Next one is Friday 3 June 2022
Upcoming Meetings
Tuesday 31 May 2022 5.30 for 6.00pm Barzaar, 166 Unley Rd, Unley
Event: Presentation of Pride of Work and Small Business Awards
Attendance and welcome: TBA
Tuesday 7 June 2022 6 for 6.30pm Damien on Fisher
Guest Speaker: Dean Woolley Solar Energy and Batteries - 101
Attendance and welcome: Vera-Ann Stacy & Christina Way
Early: Jerry Casburn (David Middleton) & Nathan White | Late: Vera Holt & Pam Trimmer
Week 4: 28 May 2022
Early: Stephen Baker & Judi Corcoran | Late: Jason Booth & Rhonda Hoare
Week 5:
Early: Bob Mullins & Wendy Andrews | Late: Virginia Cossid & Paul Duke
Rotarians, who are unable to attend as rostered, please arrange a swap or as a very last resort contact: Pam Trimmer (T) 8293 2612; (M) 0415 238 333; e-mail: pamela.trimmer@bigpond.com
Mitre 10 and Bunnings Barbeques
The Mitre 10 BBQs are the first and third Saturdays of each month. Morning shift 8.30am - 12 noon; afternoon shift 12.00 - 3.30pm, then clean-up.....next one is Saturday 4 June 2022
ALL the Bunnings Mile End Barbeque shifts are from 8am to 5pm
Original Music
FISH TANK
