Wow, just wow! The results are in, and we are blown away. The performing arts at St Andrews are flourishing!
After an extremely successful launch in 2020, the Virtual Musician of the Year was relaunched for 2021. There were different musical categories to enter into, along with age groups. This competition was available to our students, both in Primary and High School.
We had some incredible performances all round from our talented St Andrews students. There were a vast array of music styles and genres. We had traditional Thai instrumentals, heavenly classical performances and even some blasts from the past with throwback songs from rockstars and award-winning tunes from musicals.
Now before we show all the winning performances in action, we would like to congratulate and thank everyone for entering their performances into the competition. To highlight the fierce competition and magnitude of this achievement, see the below statistics:
In total, we had 7 winners — 4 in Primary and 3 in High School.
We will begin with the Primary performances and then High School:
We will begin with the Primary performances and then High School:
Isaac (Year 4) - Brass Category - Winner
Powerful performance - Isaac stood out from the crowd on the Trumpet.
Aya (Year 4) - Percussion Category - Winner
A beautiful melody - A tuneful, traditional and extremely skilful performance on the Khim.
Tien (Year 4) - Piano Category - 2nd place Winner
Majestic - a lovely piano piece
Vicente (Year 4) - Instrumental Category - 2nd place Winner
A magical performance - Vicente stunned us with great vocals, piano skills and the harmonica.
Amee (Year 10) - Composition Category - Winner
Tremendous - Amee's superb piano performance.
Outstanding - Amy's tuneful, magical and confident performance.
Chanon (Year 8) - Brass Category - 2nd place Winner
Chanon made us dream - a classic tune that will be stuck in your heads if you watch the video.
This music competition is exclusively for the 70 schools in the Nord Anglia Education group. It sits under 'Global Campus', a virtual online learning hub and community available to all our students. Our St Andrews students in Thailand can connect and be inspired by 70,000 students and 70 schools in over 30 countries worldwide. There are countless competitions listed here for St Andrews students to enter. These can range from competitions in STEAM, sports and the performing arts subjects.
To learn more about how education in the performing arts can benefit your child see the below article.
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