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

FOBISIA Youth Choir ‘Joy of Song’ Concert Thursday 18th and Friday 19th May

Mr Jon, our fabulous Music Teacher at TX Campus, has written all about our amazing FOBISIA Youth Choir. Have a look below at his congratulatory words and our amazing video. Well done everyone.

The newly formed FOBISIA Youth Choir of Ho Chi Minh City comprising 60 students from ABC International School, BVIS and BIS have been rehearsing hard for months in preparation for their first ever concert. They performed with the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City as well as singing 3 songs on their own. The concerts also featured the Asian premiere of Zimbe! – a fusion of traditional African songs and jazz.

The hard work and dedication of 60 students from ABCIS, BVIS and BIS – the newly formed FOBISIA Youth Choir of Ho Chi Minh City -  was rewarded with 2 stunning concert at Soul Academy on Thursday and Friday night last week. Along with musicians and singers from the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City the youth choir dazzled the audience with their wonderful singing, bright T-shirts and huge smiles.

28 BIS children from AP1, TX and AP2 along with students from BVIS and ABCIS joined forces to form the FOBISIA Youth Choir of Ho Chi Minh City. They have been rehearsing hard for months and have enjoyed the opportunity to sing with, and get to know, each other. Their debut concerts were on Thursday 18^th and Friday 19^th May as they performed in the ‘Joy of Song’ Concerts at Soul Academy with the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City.

To an audience of family and friends the children sang a Gospel medley in three parts then were accompanied by the orchestra to sing ‘This Is Our World’ and the live premiere of ‘Free As A Bird’. Wearing their special FOBISIA Zimbe! T-shirts they not only looked the part but sounded amazing too. In the second half of the concert they were joined by the adult choir and a jazz quintet to perform the Asian premiere of Zimbe! – a fusion of traditional African songs and jazz. The combined efforts of children and adults had the audience in Soul’s hall tapping their feet and clapping to the infectious rhythms and it was a truly spectacular sound.

The music teams of BIS, BVIS and ABCIS are all very proud of you – a massive Well Done!

Mr Jon

TX Music Leader

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.

Juilliard visits the Junior String Orchestra

The AP1 Junior String Orchestra was delighted to welcome Mr Paul from Juilliard to our rehearsal last Thursday. Mr Paul helped us with some rehearsal and practice techniques and helped us to think of our own ways we could make practising the same piece different each time! We then had a chance to play through the piece we are learning this term with Mr Paul playing his trumpet and Ms Beth on the drum.

We would like to say a big thank you to Mr Paul for coming to see us and teach us about working together as an ensemble!

Xylophone Club - Shake it Up Zena

The wonderful Xylophone Club will soon perform in our upcoming Live Lunch series. Here's a sneak peek of our performance of 'Shake it Up Zena' for you to enjoy.

Parade of Nations

Our MP2 and MP3 Choirs performed spectacularly at the two Parades of Nations this morning. We are very proud of them for opening the Parades with their two songs, which you can listen to here, along with their song from the Opening Ceremony on Monday. It was a great way to start the final day of International Week at AP1.

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:

MP3 Live Lunches

A huge well done to all the Year 5 and Year 6 children who performed in the Live Lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. We were really happy to have such a variety of performers and everybody did so well to perform their pieces so brilliantly. We were lucky to hear music from the piano, guitar, violin, and voice, as well as an original composition.

A big thank you also goes to our audience members on both days - you all demonstrated what respectful listeners you all are and we were especially pleased with how many of you turned up to listen to your friends perform.

MP3 Live Lunches

Sign-up sheets are now up on Ms Fran's and Ms Beth's doors for the MP3 Live Lunches on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th November. This is open to any Year 5 or Year 6 student wishing to perform.

CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME

In a few weeks, we will be having a special assembly commemorating 100 years since the Battle of the Somme during World War 1.  To honour the memory of those who gave their lives in battle, we will be singing the famous hymn by Gustav Holst "I Vow To Thee My Country".

Year 5 children will recognise the melody of this hymn from "Jupiter" when we were studying "The Planets Suite" also by Holst.

Many of you will also recognise the melody form International Week.  It was used as the basid for "World in Union" which we play every year during the flag ceremony.

Young Musician of the Year: Final!

Congratulations to all our finalists!

Young Musician Semi-finals Wednesday 12 October 2016

Well done to all of those children who made it through to the AP1 semi-final of the Young Musician Competition. Please see below for a video featuring photos of our gifted performers.

Congratulations especially to the winners - Jessica, Chan Yun, Anya, Jae, Tae Wan and Chae Rim. We look forward to welcoming these contestants to the Final after the half term break.

Young Musician of the Year: Semi-Finals!

Young Musician Semi-finalists

Congratulations to all of the children who auditioned in the first round of our Young Musician of the Year Competition. Ms Beth, Ms Annabelle and Ms Frances were very impressed with the high standard and of the level of preperation. We were also very proud of the wonderful quality audience members.

Our semi-finalists for this year, performing on Wednesday 12 October in the MPR at 2.45 are...

Anya - violin

Chae Rim - piano

Jimin - piano

Chan Yun - piano

Minhyuk - violin

Serena - violin

Quynh Anh - piano

Vy Anh - voice

Jessica - piano

Elizabeth - piano

Jae - piano

Harry - piano

Tae Wan - violin

Theory Club

Years 5 and 6, come along to Theory Club on Thursday lunchtimes starting Thursday 22nd September!

Young Musician of the Year - First Round Auditions

Sign-up now for the Young Musician of the Year 2016 First Round Auditions.

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. 

FOBISIA PPAC 2016 - BIS HCMC has Talent!

Here's the wonderful video of children from both AP1 and TX performing in this year's FOBISIA's got talent. Well done everyone :-)

Harmony Choir @ International Week 2016 - Gitika

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