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Bonnie Staude
Age 11 (Albany WA)
Choir is
great fun, because
you make lots of new
friends, you can extend
your musical abilities
and you SING!!
BEING PART OF A CHOIR IS
AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE
I just recently joined Gondwana Voices for
National Choral School 2014. My dad came
across a brochure about Gondwana Voices. It
had looked really exciting to me, so I auditioned
in Perth, which was a 900 km round trip by car,
but it was lots of fun and well worth it.
When I found out I’d been offered a position in
the choir, I was really thrilled about the fact that
I’d be able to travel to Sydney! I had never been
out of the south west so the idea of traveling to
the other side of the country was really exciting.
I made lots of great friends at Choral School but
the best thing about Gondwana Voices is being
with kids with the same ability, enthusiasm and
focus. Everyone is so willing to just sing for
fun and to make a great sound. I met so many
people with so many different personalities
all there to do one thing - SING! It’s just so
overwhelming standing in my choir position and
just hearing this amazing sound ring through
the air.
People ask me what my favourite song is a lot
and I can never really answer it properly! I can
tell you what my favourite food is (chocolate) or
my favourite animal (otters)! But my favourite
song? It’s an impossible question to answer!
I like to listen to Coldplay, particularly Every
Teardrop is a Waterfall, Clocks, Charlie Brown
and Paradise. My favourite song to sing solo is
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from
“Phantom”), my favourite choral piece is Panta
Rhei, a song I learnt at Choral School.
And my favourit e song to sing in the shower is
currently Let It Go from Frozen.
As for my dreams for the future - that is a
really hard question. I’m a member Albany’s
Light Opera and Theatre company, and I really
enjoy it. I think I’d like to go to WAAPA (West
Australian Academy of Performing Arts) and
study Musical Theatre.
My message for other girls who are interested
in joining a choir but don’t think they are good
enough is to never doubt yourself. Telling
yourself you are bad will make you feel bad,
and you probably won’t sing to the best of
your ability. Choir is great fun, because you
make lots of new friends, you can extend your
musical abilities and you SING!! I’d say make
the most of being in a choir, because it’s a really
awesome experience.