New School Year---More Music

Ambrit offers a wide variety of musical activities. The first week of school you will be  emailed a pamphlet of all AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES.  In that pamphlet, you will find information about choirs, ensembles, music lessons, and other after school activities. 

1. Read the pamphlet.

2. Fill out the form for After School Activities you would like to do. Take it back to school with payment. Also, CONTACT THE MUSIC TEACHERS about any music activity you are planning on doing. 

3. Questions? On Tuesday, September 1, information for private lessons will be available in the Atrium. Speak with Paige Short or Carolina Johannson about your concerns, and pick up an information sheet to read at home.

 OR

Check the Ambrit Music Website at:

http://www.ambrit-rome.com/music/Site/Welcome.html 

Honor Choir singers in Madrid!

Congratulations Honor Choir singers! You did us proud in Madrid. Standing ovation!!!!!

Choirs are singing! Musicians are playing!

Schedule of upcoming concerts not to miss:

May 21 at 18:00 in Trastevere, PIAZZA S. APOLLONIA, 3, Women's Choir, Primary Strings and soloists will perform in a fundraiser for the Primary Strings tour to Rotterdam.

All Choirs concert coming up Monday, May 25 at 17:30 in the Ambrit Theater. This includes Treble, Junior and Middle School Choirs. Joining the Middle School Choir will be other Honor Choir participants from Marymount Rome and American Overseas School in Rome.

May 26, 27, 28: Private Lesson recitals at 17:30.

June 14, 16:30, Chiesa di San Giacomo in Fara Sabina Treble Choir is singing a full concert as part of the City Music Festival. Concerts all day in all the churches of Fara Sabina. We start off with a picnic lunch, and can tour the medieval town of Fara Sabina, hear concerts of youth orchestras and ensembles. Bring a friend!

Grade 1 Choir Piazza Concert to be announced.

Samoan Sasa by Grade 2

The Dance Festival was lots of fun! Dances came from the Renaissance, Scotland, USA, Middle East, Ireland, Mexico, France, and included swing and creative movement. Check out this site to see Grade 2 do the Samoan Sasa, thanks to the bloggers of the Tamaki School in New Zealand. They taught it to us online! 

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/1b9b9de282266c8d94c95f3dcf29ec71/video/4033939

Great gig in Genova by Junior Choir

Ambrit Junior Choir took Genova by storm. Our very appreciative audience of the International School of Genova heard us sing. We hope we can host them some day at our school. Many thanks to them for giving us this opportunity!

Genova is a beautiful city. Singers sang their concert, but they also toured the city! What did we see? Paganini's violin, Genova Aquarium, Palazzi Tursi, Rosso & Bianco, went to the top of the oldest working lighthouse in the world, Roberto Scandiuzzi & San Carlo Felice symphony & chorus at the Theater, Maritime museum, little streets and good pesto, ice cream and pizza Genovese. We had sunny Italian weather. Genova is a port city, and we were in a great hotel only 20 steps from the sea. Renzo Piano's fancy structure on the port is really something, and the last day we were there we took advantage of the Children's Fair and rode trikes, jumped on trampolines, tried out some archery, and ate lots of Genovese focaccia. 

Congratulations to the singers, who were professional on stage, and great tourists while visiting the city.

Ambrit Musicians go to Town!

  

A large and audience was treated to a wonderful instrumental concert at All Saints Church in Via Babuino on St Valentine’s day.  The weather may have been cold but the young students brought warmth with beautiful skilled solo playing. 

                            

The Guitar Ensemble was a new addition to the program this year and their precision playing was a highlight. Those boys will go far!

 

 

The Middle School Ensemble gave an energetic performance and had the audience tapping their feet to the Ragtime.

           

The Junior Orchestra are certainly playing with a lovely warm tone with wonderful arrangements.

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 All thanks to all our music teachers for all the hard work to make this event really special. 

                                                                                     

Ambrit Musicians Excel at AMIS Festival

February 1, 2009

Eight musicians from Ambrit Middle School have just returned from Amsterdam after a hugely successful festival, where some 419 students from all over Europe came together to make music.

All students performed a solo program to the judges and were given a commentary on the performance. This was very nerve- wracking for them, but Ambrit musicians rose to the challenge, played with poise, musicianship and style. Students were highly complemented on their excellent preparation and the guitar group were commended for their “togetherness”.

Awards were as follows:-
Saskia , piano Performance with Distinction. Blue ribbon
Emma , violin, Performance with Merit, Blue ribbon
Isotta , violin, Performance with Distinction, Blue ribbon
John , violin, Performance with Merit, Blue Ribbon
Om , saxophone, Good Performance, Red Ribbon
Rocco, Classical guitar Performance with Distinction. Blue ribbon
Giorgio, Classical guitar, Performance with Merit, Blue ribbon
Raphael Classical guitar, Performance with Merit, Blue ribbon

Congratulation to all performers!
Whilst the Music Festival was the highlight of the trip but we also enjoyed a cultural day in Amsterdam, visiting the Van Gogh Museum, then on to the Anne Frank Museum, which was extremely interesting and thought provoking, then to the Hard Rock Café for some serious eating and chat. We all had a lot of fun!