Arts
The Faculty of Arts provides a broad range of high level opportunities for all students at Cumberland High School. Students can participate in one of the many ensembles such as Concert Band, Stage Band, String Ensemble, Drumline, Rock Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble while private music tutors provide individual music tuition for Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Alto and Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Trumpet, Classical and Rock Guitar, Composition and Bass Guitar.
Each semester the Ensembles travel to many local primary schools to perform an hour show. The Band Tour also extends to rural schools.
The annual art exhibition and performance evening, MAD, includes all students from Years 7 - 8 (for whom music, art, and drama form a compulsory part of the curriculum), as well as the elective music, art and drama classes from Years 9 - 12. The finale for each show comprises all participating students in a performance of a classical massed choral and orchestral work.
Students from The Faculty of Arts have travelled to Beijing as part of the Olympic Games Orchestra, performed in the backing choir for Australian Idol finals at the Sydney Opera House. In 2008 Seungmin Oh left Cumberland High School to take up a position at the Juilliard School in New York where he continued his piano studies.
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