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Mrs Kiara Macartney-Clark

Member, Flute - 1st

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  • Dean Jeffries Award 2017

    Kiara has been a member of Payneham City Concert Band for almost twenty years, joining us as a teenager and staying with us as she took on the usual roles of adulthood: marriage, parenthood and moving. She comes a long way - from around McLaren Vale each week – to rehearsals and for gigs. She very rarely misses a rehearsal and the only time she has missed a gig that I recall, was when she and Amanda were guests at the wedding of another member on the day of one of our community concerts last year. A reasonable excuse I’d say.

    Kiara now plays first flute and our Musical Director is very appreciative of and complimentary on her playing skills. She plays some of the solo lines and has been part of a flute quartet as well as a recorder quartet which have played from time to time at some of our concerts. We have a very strong flute section now, with five very good players. She plays a leading role in making sure they work together as an excellent balanced section.

    Kiara has been Secretary of the band for a number of years. This is a very demanding role, which I know from personal experience takes up a lot of time and requires a lot of behind the scenes activities - minute taking and producing, correspondence with all and sundry, keeping records of members up to date, liaising with other bands. Kiara does all this with exemplary speed, efficiency and cheerfulness. I know I have relied on her a good deal in 2016-17 when I took on the Presidency again after a gap of quite a few years. She produces excellent minutes of our meetings in record speed and keeps track of all the jobs to be done and the outcomes of motions.  She is one of the band’s two delegates to the South Australian Band Association and records proceedings at these meetings and circulates the information to the rest of us. Of course much of this is what any Secretary should do, but she clearly puts in time and effort well above that which can be expected of any Secretary. Long may she reign in the job.

    Finally Kiara plays her part in the routine of the band, providing regularly some of the cakes and goodies for our mid-rehearsal refreshments – an important contribution to band life.