Performing Arts

Music

Instrumental and Orchestral Music: The Junior and Senior Orchestras provide a stimulating environment in which to develop the ensemble experience of young musicians, regardless of their level of expertise. 

Smaller student ensembles in the form of The Concert Band and Jazz Gang provide the students with additional opportunities to further development individual skills and styles.

Private Music Lessons: A range of tutors, many of whom are staff from the Murray Conservatorium of Music, are available to provide additional private lessons on campus both during and after school hours. 

All teachers are qualified and experienced performers who bring a wealth of knowledge to their craft.

Lessons currently available include:

Bagpipes, bass guitar, bassoon, cello, clarinet, drums, electric organ, flute, guitar, horn, keyboard, musicianship, oboe, piano, piccolo, pipe organ, recorder, saxophone, theory, trombone, trumpet, tuba, violin, viola, voice.

The Scots School Pipe Band:  The Pipe Band holds a special place in the musical life of the School, where it leads many of the formal ceremonies held on campus throughout the year. 

Members of the band are recruited from both primary and secondary levels.  The calibre of the band places it in strong demand within the local community.

Choral Music: The Scots School choirs provide students with a variety of opportunities to perform choral music from a repertoire of sacred, modern and traditional pieces. 

The current choirs on campus include Cantabile, Dynamix, Barbershop, Adelines, Chorale and Open Choir.

Dramatic Arts

Musical Theatre: The Scots School is at the forefront of musical theatrical productions in the region.  Each year the school presents a major production which often has casts up to and over 100 senior students.

Past productions have included Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat (1999), The Little Shop of Horrors (2000), Les Miserables (2001), Godspell (2002), The Pajama Game (2003), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2004), Grease (2005), The Wiz (2006), Sweet Charity (2007), South Pacific (2008) and 42nd Street (2009).

These shows afford all students (regardless of their level of skill) with the opportunity to participate, whilst the lead roles provide opportunities for our strongest singers, actors and dancers to further showcase their skills.

As a mark of the success that these experiences provide, a number of past students have continued on to study musical theatre and drama at tertiary levels, some attaining performance on the national and international stage.

Drama Productions:

Drama is an elective academic subject from Year 9 to HSC level. All drama classes are involved in public performances as part of their course.

Classes have performed well-known plays such as The Property of the Clan, The Small Poppies, Beaches-A Theatrical Fantasia, The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Year 9 Are Animals.  Some plays have been specially written for the classes, who also successfully participate in local theatre festivals.

Performance of group devised pieces are a feature of the NSW curriculum and are a part of each year's program.

Students also have the opportunity to audition for roles in plays drawn from the traditional and contemporary repertoire as part of the School's extra curricular program, regardless of their level of involvement in curriculum drama.

Past productions have included Rhinoceros (2009), The Taming of the Shrew (2008), The Real Inspector Hound (2007), Cosi (2006), Kid Stakes (2005), The Crucible (2004) and Mother Courage (2003).

There are additional opportunities for the students to be involved in the mechanics of production - make-up, lighting, costume, set construction and stage management, also play an integral role in the entire performance experience.

Year 9 Production: The well established Year 9 Musical Production is presented over two performancea during Term 2 at Scots.

The aim of the production is to collectively draw all students (regardless of their abilities) into a combined creative endeavour, requiring a disciplined teamwork approach for success.

Because of its compulsory nature, involvement in the production ensures all students become actively engaged in a huge learning curve, with many discovering talents that would have otherwise remained hidden.  It is a vital part of the process of creating confident, creative individuals and builds useful skills for the senior drama and musical productions.

Dance: The Scots School Albury provides a range of dance and movement classes for students both during and after school.  The classes cater for beginners to advanced and incorporate styles such as classical ballet, jazz, musical theatre, funk, contemporary, neo-classical and tap. 

Dance is also an integral component of the PDHPE syllabus and vital to the success of the four major musical theatre productions held annually on campus for students in years K-12.