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Kool Skools Recording Project

Recorded at Empire Studios Melbourne, September & November 2024

The Kool Skools Recording Project was initiated by Studio 52 (now Empire Music Studios) in 1996, offering emerging artists and young songwriters from Victorian Secondary Schools the opportunity to record their songs in a professional recording studio.

Recording our first school album in 1997, Wangaratta High School is passionate about the Kool Skools project with over twenty years of involvement. Over the years our participation in this project has allowed us to support individual and small group musical talent within our school as well as showcase some of the larger ensembles our music program offers. With the extension of Empire Music Studios, we were able to record our Symphonic Band, a 40-piece wind ensemble, for the first time last year.

Instrumental Music Program

In addition to our curricular music program, students at Wangaratta High School can participate in our Instrumental Music Program which offers tailored lessons in a broad range of musical instruments with level appropriate bands and ensembles. Our staff offer lessons in Woodwind, Brass, Percussion and Bass Guitar.

Our well-established Instrumental program encourages students to become involved in making high quality music, to make friends and socialise with students in other year levels and develop confidence in presenting and performing to their peers and to the whole school and wider community. Through weekly lessons, rehearsals, camps/workshops, tours, and performances many students develop an engagement with music that continues beyond the school gates and enriches our wider community.

Music Program Handbook

Classroom Music

Wangaratta High School has proudly offered a well-rounded Classroom Music Program and an extensive Instrumental Music Program to its students for many decades.

All students take part in Classroom Music in Years 7 and 8 and can choose to continue their music study in Years 9 and 10.  The year 7-10 program covers Music Performance, Music Technology, Music Theory, Listening and Composition and leads into VCE and VET music studies.  We currently have students enrolled in VCE Music – Repertoire & Contemporary Streams, and Certificate III in Music Industry – Performance and Sound Production streams.

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