Now That's What I Call Music!

AP1’s Summer Concert 2017 was, once again, truly an event to remember.  The concert was entitled “Now That’s What I Call Music!” and it most certainly lived up to the name. The show featured fabulous performances from all of our AP1 choirs and instrumental ensembles who have been working hard throughout the year. Our fantastic young AP1 musicians had the audience clapping along and smiling throughout. Particular highlights were the MP1 Choir performing “Let’s Dance”, the School of Rock giving a rousing rendition of “I Will Survive”, the Harmony Choir making great use of their fabulous voices with a multitude of solos in “Sing” and, finally, the amazing sound we achieved with all of the children singing and playing together for our finale “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.  

Now that is what I really call music!

For more photos of this amazing evening, click here.

Harmony Choir - Sing Soloists

Thank-you to those of you who auditioned for the solo parts in 'Sing'. 

Please see below for the solo allocations:

1. Daniel

2. Junseo

3. Rachel

4. Bella

5. Tijmen

6. Joo Hyeon

7. Jessica

8. Anya

9. David

10. Jeung Min

11. Ida Maya and Winnie

WHATEVER THE WEATHER - AN ATMOSPHERIC JOURNEY

This year’s whole school Spring Spectacular was a fantastic showcase for the talents of BIS students from all three campuses, with every one of the concert items featuring the common theme of the weather. AP1 and TX opened the show in style with a rousing joint performance of ‘Mr Blue Sky”. This was followed with a set from the AP1 campus, featuring such songs as “California Dreaming” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.

TX opened the second half of the concert and definite highlights from this were “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. The remainder of the concert was filled with fabulous items from a range of AP2 ensembles. The Chamber Choir’s rendition of “The Storm is Passing Over” was delightful and the Concert Band’s “Snow Day Celebration” really started the audience’s toes tapping! AP2 rounded off their set with a dazzling orchestral and vocal performance of “Another Day of Sun” from the recent movie “La La Land”.

To end the evening, all three campuses joined together for an incredible finale of “It’s Raining Sunshine”. This performance really raised the roof! Once again the BIS Music department has been astounded at the sheer talent and hard work from all of our students which contributed to such a magnificent event. Well done everyone!

Click here to view photos of the concert.

International Week Begins!

Harmony Choir got International Week off to a great start with their performance of Hold Back the River at the Opening Ceremony on Monday. Click here to watch a video of their performance and stay on the lookout for more performances still to come for International Week.

Here is a photo of Harmony Choir rehearsing before the ceremony:

A Christmas Cracker!

Well done to all those children who helped to make our AP1 Carol Concert a massive success. All of the performances were tremendous and the Music Teachers are all very proud of you!

Click here to see more photos of this fabulous event.

Harmony Choir Auditions September 2016

Well done to everyone who auditioned for the Harmony Choir. Every one sang beautifully and Ms Beth, Ms Annabelle and myself were really impressed with the high standard shown. 

We are very pleased to announce the following additions to our Harmony Choir...

Yun Ji 6B

Junseo 6I, Joo Hyeon 6I, Jessica 6I, Steven 6I, Tijmen 6I

Jenna 6N

Daniel 6V

Rachel 5I

Sonali 5S, Jasminh 5S

Ida Maya 5V, Duc Nguyen 5V

Bella 5N, Winnie 5N, Quynh An 5N

Jeemin 5H, Young Woo 5H

Rehearsals will start on Friday 23 September at 2.40pm in Ms Frances' room. 

AP1 MAKES THEIR AUDIENCE SMILE

This year's AP1 Summer Concert had the theme "Walking on Sunshine: Music To Make You Smile" and our performers certainly did a great job of making this a cheerful and memorable event. All of our choirs and instrumental groups performed to a huge audience of family and friends. All of the performances were fantastic and, once again, our AP1 musicians made the Music team extremely proud.  Well done everyone!

To see some more photos of this fabulous event click here.

Singin' in the Rain Remix

Here's a different version of our Harmony Choir song, 'Singing in the Rain'. Thank-you Kayla for reminding me to share this on the blog.

Enjoy.

Harmony Choir @ International Week 2016 - Gitika

Here are the tracks for our Harmony Choir International Week song! Enjoy!

AP1 Carol Concert - A Holly, Jolly Christmas!

Once again, the marvellous musicians of AP1 gave us a fabulous concert packed full of wonderful performances and superb singing.  If you would like to see some more photos of this amazing event, click here.

Seasonal Spectacular December 2015

Well done to all of our performers who played and sang yesterday evening in the Benh Thanh Theatre as part of our annual cross-campus musical celebration. We're all so very proud of all of you and hope you now have a restful weekend.

Click here to see all of the photos from our concert last night.

Harmony Choir sings Let It Snow

Our Harmony Choir is practising hard for all of our Christmas concerts.  Here they are singing 

"Let It Snow".

  

Harmony Choir Members

How do you think we could we improve this song before we sing it at the concert?

Harmony Choir Auditions

Harmony Choir Auditions - The Results

Thank-you to everyone who auditioned today for Harmony Choir. We are very proud of all of you for being so brave in putting yourselves forward, and for the respect you all showed to your fellow auditionees. Thank-you. 

If you have not been chosen for Harmony Choir this term please consider joining MP3 Choir to help you develop your singing confidence. You may try again for Harmony Choir later in the year.

Congratulations go to:

• Olivia 6N
• Kayla 6H
• Kim 6H
• Sarah 6V
• Hannah 6I
• Anya 5I
• Ellie 6H
• Man Nghi 6B
• Nini 6S
• Minori 6S
• Jessie 6S
• Jeong Min 5N
• Hailey 6N
• Regina 6H
• Amy 6S

Ms Beth, Ms Lettie and I all look forward to seeing you at our first rehearsal on Thursday 24 September.

Ms Fran

Harmony Choir Auditions

• Are you in Year 5 or 6?
• Are you a singer?
• Would you like to audition for Harmony Choir?

Harmony Choir Auditions will take place on Tuesday 22 September at 12.00pm in Ms Fran's room. No need to sign up, just turn up ready with a song to sing.

Any questions please see Ms Beth or Ms Fran.

AP1 Summer Concert - Name That Tune!

Once again, the children of AP1 produced an amazing concert. All of the singers and instrumentalists performed brilliantly and the highlight of the evening was definitely the rousing finale, "Hey Jude", where we managed to get the audience to wave their hands in the air.  

Well done, young musicians!

Friends Around The World - Let The Music Take You Away

As you all know, the AP1 Music teachers are incredibly proud of all the students who performed in this concert.  If you would like to here what some of the performers thought, click below on read more.

What did you think of the concert?  Leave us a comment to let us know.

Spring Spectacular 2015

Yesterday AP1 children in MP2, MP3 and Harmony Choirs and Orchestra performed at the Ben Thanh Theatre alongside children from TX campus and AP2. Our theme was 'Friends around the World'  and we performed pieces from Babe, High School. Musical and Super Tramp. Here are some of our highlights...

Harmony Choir - Ordinary Miracle

Check out Harmony Choir singing Ordinary Miracle. We will be singing this for the Spring Concert in a few weeks time.

Don't forget to comment! What do you like? What could we work on to get better?

Enjoy!

We Belong Together - Joint TX and AP1 Spring Spectacular Piece

Here's the orchestral track of our joint AP1 and TX Spring Spectacular Piece. Now you can try playing and singing along at home. Happy performing!

Christmas Concert December 2014

On Tuesday 16 December the children from MP1 Choir, MP2 Choir, MP3 Choir, Harmony Choir and Orchestra and the adults from the Staff Choir joined together to celebrate Christmas with a fantastic concert. We sang and played music to help put us in the Christmas spirit. Everyone did a great job and everyone had a smile on their face at the end of the concert.

Thank-you to all those involved (family included) - a great job!

Click on 'read more' to see some more photos (thank-you Mr Adam) from our marvellous concert.

Happy Christmas.