AUDITIONS

What takes 2 weeks, covers 4000 kilometres and visits 2000 children in over 45 schools in 22 towns? The Moorambilla Voices Regional Children’s Choirs audition tour!  In March each year Artistic Director Michelle Leonard personally auditions children through workshops at the local schools or community centres, looking for gifted children who showed outstanding natural capacity to participate in Moorambilla Voices.

All primary school children from years 4 to 6 auditioned for the Regional Boys or Girls choirs and those chosen have a voice that is fully developed, or one that shows great potential to develop and improve during the course of this project. They are naturally gifted “raw” musicians who will be given the opportunity to work and thrive in an innovative and creative environment with professional musicians.

For high school students in years 7 to 9, the students selected showed aptitude in two of three areas – singing / instrumental, percussion and visual arts especially use of digital cameras and editing tools.

All Moorambilla Voices candidates for 2008 were chosen for their ability to actively participate to achieve musical excellence and contribute something unique to the project, socially and artistically.

Where are the participants from?

Michelle Leonard selected children in workshop auditions from the following towns for Moorambilla Voices 2008:  Walgett, Brewarrina, Lightning Ridge, Bourke, Walgett and Bourke Distance Education, Goodooga, Cobar, White Cliffs, Wilcannia, Menindee, Nyngan, Trangie, Warren, Gulargambone, Quambone, Carinda, Coonamble, Baradine, Coonabarabran, Mendooran, Binnaway, Coolah and Dunedoo.

This area covers over 230,00 square kilometres which is well over a third of NSW and represents towns from the Orana Arts, Outback Arts, West of the Darling Arts regions. 10 local government areas are represented in Moorambilla Voices 2008 - Bogan, Brewarrina, Cobar, Bourke, Walgett, Coonamble, Warren, Central Darling, Narromine and Warrumbungle.