Last week St. Andrews Music Department welcomed Kathryn Andersen, our music curriculum specialist from The Julliard School, New York. Kathryn came to work with teachers and students as part of our collaboration with The Julliard School, one of the world's preminent performing arts institutions.
Last week St. Andrews Music Department welcomed Kathryn Andersen, our music curriculum specialist from The Julliard School, New York. Kathryn came to work with teachers and students as part of our collaboration with The Julliard School, one of the world's preminent performing arts institutions.
Last week St. Andrews Music Department welcomed Kathryn Andersen, our music curriculum specialist from The Juilliard School, New York. Kathryn came to work with teachers and students as part of our collaboration with The Juilliard School, one of the world's preeminent performing arts institutions. During her three days at St. Andrews, Kathryn worked with students in their music lessons and students shared their work with her in special assemblies. She also gave performances and was interviewed by some of our Primary students about her life as a professional musician.
As a professional violinist, Kathryn worked closely with our String Ensemble during her visit. This was a great opportunity for our string players as Kathryn is an experienced musician who has performed all over the world. There was a lot of excitement coupled with focus as our young musicians displayed their professionalism in ensemble performance.
This was the first of several visits Kathryn will make to our school and she returns in February next year. Over the coming year we will be visited by other professional musicians, actors and dancers from The Juilliard School and we are very excited to welcome them to our school.
Kathryn is a violinist from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She received her Masters degree in Music from The Juilliard School and her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University. Kathryn has worked as a professional violinist both nationally and internationally. Kathryn is also a dedicated teacher, and has served as a Teaching Artist through the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall. Previously she taught in New York City public schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Kathryn also spent six years as a violin and viola instructor.
Senior student at St Andrews Bangkok, Pun (Year 13), devises an innovative solution for effective waste management. Recently, he completed an ambitious project: an AI-powered waste sorting system. After much research and testing, he got the system to work and put the model to use in one of our rooms at school!
Physics students from St Andrews Bangkok made quite an impression at the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition and won the Best Outreach Award for their brilliant work. BL4S is a prestigious global physics contest organised by CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland) and DESY (the German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany), inviting High School students worldwide to propose detailed experiments to be conducted at a particle accelerator beamline. While our students did not win the main prize of conducting their experiment in Geneva, they still stood out and were recognised from an entry of over 400 teams.
