“Be our guest, be our guest!”
Join us as we celebrate a tale as old as time as we perform the production of Beauty and the Beast live at Edgemead High School.
Tickets available on the Karri app, please use the link provided below.
Category: Culture
Student Achievements
Grade 8 learner, Brooklyn Cronje was chosen as a member of the Tygerberg Children’s Choir that will be touring to the United Kingdom from the 22nd of April to the 2nd of May.
Well done, Brooklyn!
Academics – Music and Drama
The Grade 12 Music and Drama learners visited LAMTA academy, a musical theatre school situated in Camps Bay, where they were able to observe and participate in different lectures by Duane Alexander. What an amazing opportunity to see how talent is brought to the industry and the industry to the Talent. 🎶🎭
Performing Arts – Trinity Exams
Charné Jupp and her group, Finding You, Finding Me, from The Drama Lab, did their Trinity Grade 6 Musical Theatre exam. They achieved 92% and was named as Western Cape Top Achievers in this category. Congratulations!!🎉
Student Achievements – KFM K-Day
Rising stars, Unity, comprising of Reagan Kelly, Tony Munnik and Ronan Kelly, have won a competition hosted by KFM. As winners, they have been selected to perform at K-Day later this year. This week, they performed twice for the school to celebrate their win. So proud of you, boys! ❤️🦅💙
Performing Arts – Cape Philharmonic Youth ensembles
Congratulations to Zena Marks and Conner Vermeulen who have successfully auditioned and will perform in Cape Philharmonic Youth Wind and String ensembles respectively.
Performing Arts
“An authentic story of love, hope and home.” @callingushomemusical is a grand-scale musical that swept us off our feet! We had the wonderful opportunity to attend the official press night performance @artscapetheatre . Learners were able to meet the writer, director and cast members and be inspired to dream through this performance.
Performing Arts – Classical Guitar
PERFORMING ARTS – 14th Annual Classical Guitar Competition
On Saturday 29 October 2022, the music department held our 14th Annual Classical Guitar Competition in the Candlelight Theatre.
This year’s 62 entries from 22 primary and high schools surpassed our earlier record of 42.
Once again, the performance level was impressively high from the youngest 8-year-old grade 2 performer to grade 12. Each had come along eager to fight for the converted trophies and medals.
Despite the 33-degree temperature, our captivated audience endured the 3 hours show with warm appreciation for all contestants and the promise to return in 2023 to witness our youth showing off their talents again.
EHS learners gave an excellent account of themselves.
Performance medals were awarded to:
Neo Tenai Gr.8
Aidyn Sullivan Gr 9
Aiden van der Merwe Gr. 9
Thaania Omar Gr. 8
Justin Kerr Gr. 9
Zane Jacobs Gr. 12.
Thaania Omar took second place in the grade 8 category.
Zane Jacobs took 3rd place in grade 12.
Aiden van der Merwe was awarded the trophy for best beginner. Aiden had only started playing 11 months ago yet beat a field of 9 guitarists in his group.
Our congratulations to our eagles. Your soared high on Saturday. We are all extremely proud of you.
Alumni News
Past EHS Eagle, Whitney April, signs International deal with Maroon 5 musician’s management team. We are extremely proud of you, Whitney!
Cape singer shares management with Maroon 5 musician (iol.co.za)
Performing Arts – Viva la Musica
Congratulations to all teachers and learners involved in our Annual Viva la Musica concert/competition. Thank you to our host adjudicator, Professor Corvin Matei. Thank you to Hugo Lambrechts. Best Senior Performance: Conner Vermeulen (piano & cello), Best Junior Performance: Siphesihle Matlho (flute). Music Captain 2023: Catherine Atherton