Performance & Instrumental Music
NCC Students Engage in a Diverse and Rewarding Academic Life
Preparing students for a successful future starts at a young age. A strong curriculum combined with a stimulating learning environment has seen NCC consistently achieve outstanding academic results.
The Nambour Christian College Performance and Instrumental Music Program is a performance-based program that engages the student in learning an instrument or voice from Prep to Year 12.
Music at NCC
The College has approximately 400 students enrolled in instrumental music tuition across a broad range of instruments, including:
- Piano – electronic keyboard and piano
- Strings – violin, viola, cello, double bass
- Percussion – drums and percussion instruments
- Guitar – electric, acoustic and bass guitar
- Brass – trumpet, french horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba
- Woodwind – flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, oboe, bassoon
- Vocals
The students come together in a variety of age and skill based bands and ensembles including:
- Year 4 Concert Band
- Junior School Concert Band
- Middle School Concert Band
- Wind Symphony
- Stage Band
- String ensemble
- Junior, Middle and Senior School Chapel Bands
- Various brass and woodwind ensemble
- Junior, Middle and Senior School Chapel Bands, choirs and vocal groups
The success of the College Music program was highlighted with the invitation for the College Wind Symphony to perform in the Pacific Basin Music Festival in March, 2013. Held in Hawaii for the past 30 years, our students joined with other young musicians from around the world for this exciting event. The NCC Wind Symphony won a Silver Award. In 2016, the Wind Symphony was invited to perform in the festival in New Zealand. Other regular public performances include the Noosa Jazz Festival, school concerts and productions and strong representation in Queensland Conservatorium’s State Honours Ensemble Programs.
NCC also hosts regional AMEB and Trinity College
examinations each year. In 2017, 80 NCC students completed practical and written examinations, with grades ranging from Preliminary to LTCL & AMUS level.
Further evidence of the quality and depth of the NCC Performance and Instrumental Music Program was reflected in the performance of our students at the 2017 Sunshine Coast Eisteddfod. With more than 150 entries, featuring 300 students, our entries consisted of solos, duets, trios, ensembles, choirs and bands in categories such as choral and vocal, piano, strings, brass and woodwind – an outstanding display of depth and variety of our students’ talents! Over a third of our entries resulted in placements.
The program offers students either individual or small group tuition with a specialist teacher and also involvement in various bands and ensembles.
