St Andrew's College Music Dept

Next Wednesday 24 June at 6pm is our end of semester Year 10 music concert. They have been working incredibly hard to produce a concert with challenging and varied music from classical, jazz, rock and music theatre. Please come along and support them.

Wednesday 24 June
6pm
Gold coin donation (proceeds to go to the Chch School of Music)
In the school chapel

We are super proud of our songwriters who have composed the music for this show. It's on this week from Monday to Friday.

✨ Preparatory School Production 2026: 'Looped' 🎮🎶
Opening Monday 15 June!

Welcome to Looptown, a world where everything runs on points, progress, and the promise of more. But as the system begins to falter, one voice begins to question it all…

Step into an imaginative adventure filled with unexpected Glitches, encounters a powerful Firewall, and ventures right to the edge of the world itself. What will it take to break the loop?

This vibrant production brings together 220 Year 7–8 students across three days of collaborative theatre. With a story devised by our Preparatory School students, and an original score composed by our Secondary School songwriters, 'Looped' is a true celebration of creativity, teamwork, and student voice. 🎭

Step into the loop… if you dare. 👀

📅 When: Monday 15, Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 June
🕒 Times: 11.00am–12.15pm and 7.00pm–8.15pm each day (six performances)
📍 Where: Gough Family Theatre, Ngā Toi Performing Arts Centre
🎟️ Adults: $35.00 | Students: $17.50

Tickets are selling fast, secure yours today!

https://stac.nz/Looped-tickets

Thanks to the senior student leaders who organised a great social night out for the music department. Connecting students from years 9-13 from the choral, orchestral, jazz and rock programmes. We had fun with bowling, laser tag and many laughs along the way. Thanks to Duncan Ferguson, Mark Hodgkinson and Ginnie Thorner for supporting another evening event this term.

If any ex Jazz Big Band members want to sell/donate their jazz jackets back to the department please get in touch 🙂

Over the past two days we have had 15 Chamber Groups involving StAC students compete in the NZCT Chamber Music Competition. Nine of the groups were StAC only students and the other six involved students from other schools.

We have had four groups make it through to the District Finals tomorrow which is an amazing result. Huge thanks to Mark Hodgkinson for all his coordination and direction of the groups. Also a huge thanks to Jennie Goldstein, Mijin Jeon and Thomas Woodfield for their work with groups.

Come along tomorrow to The Piano to show your support for our StAC groups.

Here is the epic set from "Pretty When It Burns" at the Rockquest Regional finals. They were amazing and we're super proud.

Pretty When It Burns - Rockquest Regional Finals We are super proud of this epic set from our top Rock School band -...

Congratulations to our three choirs for their excellent performances at the Big Sing last week.

Big Sing 2026 Here are the performances from our three StAC choirs.0:00 First is...

Huge congratulations to our auditioned choir Ngā Manu Tioriori who won Best Mixed Voice choir (for the third year in a row) and the award for best performance of a NZ work.
We are very grateful to our incredible director Jared Corbett and accompanist Singing Lin who have done incredible work with the choir this year.

Here are our 9 bands performing at Rockquest in the weekend. Regional finalists are announced today at 12pm. Best of luck to everyone!

Rockquest 2026 - StAC Bands Here are our 9 bands that competed in Rockquest this year.