Tim Holland entertaining at the Esperance Senior Citizens’ Centre. Photos: supplied.
Music education identity Tim Holland is moving on, having taught full time this year at Esperance Senior High School.
ESHS head of the arts Sarah Watchorn said she first knew him as a parent, as her son attended Castletown Primary School where Mr Holland was on the staff.
He was then asked to fill in at the High School.
“The kids were really angry with me,” she said.
“I had a family emergency and Tim was really happy to come in and take on a large position of the music role at the start of the year when I was away.
“I had to explain to my child what I had done, which was really hard.”
Ms Watchorn said Mr Holland started working part time at ESHS last year as it was an “instrumental music school”.
“We get funding from the Instrumental Music Service to run lessons for children from Year 5 upwards, which are semi-private lessons with an instructor,” she said.
“He took on our concert band, and for the first time they won the Esperance Music Festival under his direction.”
This year Mr Holland came across in a larger capacity, taking Year 7 and 8 music classes.
“He continued to teach clarinet and saxophone at our school and just the clarinet at Castletown and Esperance primary,” Ms Watchorn said.
“But he also helped out with our production and he started a vocal ensemble which sang at Morning Melodies, and they have done some beautiful stuff around town.
“He has expanded a lot of our program so it has been great to have his expertise in Esperance.”
This year Mr Holland also arranged the repertoire and played piano for the school musical adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In the new year he is to start work at Hedland Senior High.