| | | | | | Music | | | | Music Department |  | The Music Department has two specialist classroom teachers plus five visiting instrumental teachers. Music is taught as a subject in the Junior, Intermediate and senior school.
Instrumental Tuition
Over 150 students in the school take private instrumental tuition in addition to normal classroom activities. The Department at present can offer private tuition in Piano, Violin, Cello, Guitar, Saxophone and Clarinet, Flute Recorder and Voice.
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| Ms Fionnuala Howard
Head of Music Dept | |
| Opportunities for student performance
There is enormous scope within the school for students to engage in public performance. The following events are fixed every year in the calendar:
Open Evening Student Recital
Whole School Carol Service
Senior School Musical Evening
Junior School Musical Morning
The Young Musician Competition Weekend
Gala Day Student Recital
Opportunities for Composing
We offer ‘Song School’ - an option that uses modern recording studio equipment to facilitate the composition and recording of student’s work. Senior music students have participated in The National Composition Workshops with the National Chamber Choir.
| | As part of Sutton Park Schools Young Musician Competion we proudly presented a recital by the exciting young pianist Mr Lance Coburn, winner of Cologne International Piano Competition. | International Chamber Music Recitals at Sutton Park School
The Music Department organizes chamber music recitals for the wider local community. Many international artists have performed at the school:
Lance Coburn – 2007/2008 & 2008/2009
Trio Di Parma –November 2006
Eugene Mursky - winner of World Piano Competition Oct. 2005
Bernadette Greevy 2004
Moscow Piano Trio, 2003/ 2002/2000
The Vogler String Quartet, 2001
The Tackas String Quartet, 2002
Lance Coburn- Winner of the Cologne International Piano Competition)
Shireen Goudarzi- Tobin 2004
Dearbhaile O Donnell. 2002
Opportunities for Students Musical Drama
In collaboration with the Gaiety school of acting we have produced:
Grease 2008
High School Musical 2007
Guys and Dolls 2005
Fiddler on the Roof 2004
Other musicals produced include:
The Little Shop of Horrors 1999
Oliver 1995
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 1990
The Rock Nativity 1988
Opportunities for Student Competition
The Young Musician Competition - The Patrick J Hillery Trophy
The Music Department organises a competition for the local area with competitions for piano, voice, strings and wind. Entries come in from all over North Dublin. Former president of Ireland, Dr Patrick Hillery donated the principal Prize for this competition. Esteemed adjudicators over the years have included the late Dr Brian Boydell and Dr Gerard Victory. Well over a thousand young musicians have performed and have received constructive advice at this event over the past 15 years.
| | Department of Education Syllabus for Music - (DOE Website - June 2009) | | DOE Syllabus - Junior Certificate Curriculum Syllabus - Pdf Doc | | DOE Syllabus - Leaving Certificate Curriculum Syllabus - Pdf Doc |
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