Wedding at Maleny Manor



Rawhinia and Astar playing at the wedding



Astar and Rawhinia at the wedding

 The wedding was an outdoor wedding at Maleny Manor with an amazing view of the Sunshine Coast (you can see some of the view in the top photo). We were there to play violin for the service. We played 'Brandenberg Concerto' and 'Vivaldi's Concerto For Two Violins in A Minor' as the people were seating. Then when Kate (the bride) in her beautiful dress walked down the isle, we played 'Pachelbel's Canon'.
After the ceremony while the Kate and Mitch (the bride and groom) were signing the register we played 'The Flower Duet', 'Winter - Vivaldi' and   'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'. The wedding was perfect in every way. We had a great time and hope to do more weddings in the future.

This week we are at Winter School for Strings. Having a wonderful time so we will tell you all about it next week.

Tune in soon  A & R

Guest Speakers For Leadership Day

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R



Rawhinia and Astar at Leadership Presentations

 Hi Everyone. We were asked to be the guest speakers for a leadership day at one of the schools on the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday. It was great and quite an honour. The school had chosen two children to be their leaders for the year. We were to present the awards. We also played violin to all the students at the school and did an inspirational talk for the students that attended the school. It was great for us to do this because last year both of us were chosen to be leaders of our old school. After the talk, and violin playing, the principal asked the students if any of them wanted to learn to play the violin. After hearing us play all the kids hands shot up. Then the headmistress asked if they were inspired to follow any other dream (after our talk) and all their hands shot up again. It was so COOL!
This weekend we have the great honour of playing the music for a wedding. We will let you know how it goes. We may be a bit late in posting next week as we are doing Winter School (for violin.) We will also tell you more about that after it has finished.
Hope you are all staying warm. We will post again next week.

Tune in soon,  A & R

Motor Cross

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R



Astar and Rawhinia at Motor Cross



We had a great weekend selling Yo yos at the Motor Cross Vintage Bike weekend. We sold 176 biscuits and made a good profit that is going towards our trip. There were about 2000 people there camping and on Saturday night it rained which made it very muddy. So along with all the campers and motor bikes we got to slosh around in the mud! Today we are exhausted! We want to say thankyou to the P & C who let us sell our Yo yos at their canteen.



Rawhinia about to go Picnic racing

 On Sunday, after all the campers went and the adults were still cleaning up the canteen, we climbed the hill and went picnic- racing. Picnic- racing is when you get a big piece of cardboard and slide down the hill on it. So much fun! We have put the recipe for the Yo yos on our Recipe Page as so many people wanted it, it is simple and they taste SO YUMMY!!!! But be warned, they are addictive!
Also to all those who are wanting to help us raise the money for our trip (we are still a long way off our target) you can do so by donating a note on our Help Us Page.
We will be posting again on Monday next week.

Tune in Soon  A & R

Astar and Rawhinia 'Composing At Ten Years Old'

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon,   A & R

Hi, Astar and Rawhinia are quite busy at the moment cooking for a fundraiser (they will tell you about it next week). They have asked me to do the post for this week.




Rawhinia and Astar ten years old performing in orchestra

 I thought that you might be interested in hearing about their compositions. It was just after the bush fire that decimated Melbourne. The Orchestra was to be performing at a golf club on the Sunshine Coast and the conductor asked the children in the string orchestra if anyone of them wanted to perform a solo. If so, could they bring the piece of music in the following week for approval. Well, the girls came home and looked through their music. They didn't think that any of the pieces were appropriate for the concert but, they still wanting to do a solo. So they sat down with the idea of composing a piece each. Rawhinia decided to compose a piece of music called "Black Sunday" (the day after the bush fire). Rawhinia wanted to portray the deep sadness that the people effected by the fire were feeling and that in amongst all the destruction there is renewed life. It took Rawhinia half an hour to compose the piece that goes for around 4 min. When she played it at the concert people were brought to tears. Rawhinia is very sensitive and has a gift for conveying her message. Astar decided to work on a different type of music. She called here piece "Stella The Birth of a Star". Her piece is full of life - exciting, stimulating and fast. "Stella" is all about a star being created in the cosmos. Astar's composition took a couple of hours to compose and lasts for around 4 min. When Astar played "Stella" the crowd roared in cheer. 


Part of the crowd, not even standing room left.

  After the performance we were approached by professional musicians complementing the girls on their compositions and asking them where they had learnt to compose! To their astonishment Astar and Rawhinia had never learnt composition and at that stage had not even started to do music theory!
They were only ten years old.
I am not  musical and unfortunately  don't have any friends that are. Imagine what they could do if they had someone to teach/help them!

Tune in to next weeks post with A & R

Cheers  Katusha