Arts & Culture

HoD Music appointed Associate Conductor
Westlake’s amazing Head of Music, Fiona Wilson, has been announced as a new Associate Conductor for New Zealand’s national premier chamber choir “Voices”. Also selected

Talented Year 9 student selected for national band
Cornet player Emily Sullivan (Year 9) has been selected for the 2020 National Secondary Schools Brass Band (North Island) which will be assembling in Taupo

Tāne Mahuta ‘breathes life’ into Westlake’s rich culture
Earlier this year we profiled the amazing Emma Ormsby in The Voice. Our former Service Prefect for Akoranga House was named New Zealand’s Top Scholar

Singers make the cut for Virtual Big Sing video
The nationwide choral festival ‘The NZCF’s Big Sing’ which is run annually throughout the main centres of New Zealand, was cancelled this year due to

Music rehearsals are back!
All co-curricular Music groups have started back from Tuesday 2 June at the following times and venues: Mondays 3.30pm – 5pm: Cigno Voce Choir in

Alumna shares university experience with music students
By Danielle Tzankov Year 12 Gnesyer Gomez, a Westlake Girls’ High School alumna and a current Contemporary Music Studies student at the University of Auckland,

Ballet lesson with a difference
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s lockdown series continues. This weekend it’s Swan Lake, ballet’s most beloved classic, retold in an electrifying new version. Friday 8

What have our music students been up to?
Our incredibly talented music students are working hard in their bubbles to keep up with their studies. Here’s what some of them have been up

Student heralds in ANZAC Day with trumpet tribute
ANZAC Day dawned to the sound of a trumpet in Jenny Howe’s neighbourhood. Jenny, a Year 10 student, played The Last Post at 6am on

Level 3 Drama – working body and mind
By MJ Milburn For Level 3 Drama students, school this year started with a fresh new challenge – that of solo devising. Students worked with