Dollar Academy's Juvenile Band have retained the title of Juvenile World Champions after winning the category at the RSPBA World Championships. The school's Novice Juvenile A band also took part in the competition, finishing fourth in their category. The strong performances at Glasgow Green, and throughout the season, resulted in both Bands winning the Champion of Champions accolade in their...
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Bruton School for Girls hosted the Langa Methodist Choir from South Africa on Monday, fresh from their appearance on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. The choir performed an impromptu concert with pupils from the school, who are currently busy rehearsing for the end of term musical, Chicago. The eclectic set included some show tunes, a version of God Save the Queen, an Ed Sheeran hit and a traditional...
Thespians in Years 5 and 6 at Windermere School entertained packed audiences with their interpretation of the musical, Cinderella and Rockerfella. For the pupils, weeks of hard work learning their lines, rehearsing songs and practicing dance routines finally came to climax, as the curtains drew back and the cast launched into the first song, ‘Tonight’s the Night’ – a spirit raising opening...
Musicians and singers from Kingswood School came out in force again at Green Park Station for the biggest night of the year in Bath. The School's headline spot in the annual ‘Party in the City’ was a triumph once again, and in true Kingswood fashion, the pupils did not disappoint, with an electric atmosphere and plenty of great entertainment. Kingswood Jazz Orchestra (KJO) started the show with a...
Bromsgrove School's combined Prep and Senior Choir recently competed at the Cheltenham Festival for Performing Arts in the School Choir U19 category, winning the E L Ward Challenge Cup. The adjudicator, Ula Weber, thought their performance of the Lacrymosa from Mozart’s Requiem was really moving and said that their “understanding of the text really came through”. The second song they sang was the...
A young trombonist from Burgess Hill has won the award for Most Promising Instrumentalist. Daisy Hogan, 9, hit all the right notes at the Rotary Club Young Musician of the Year competition, winning the judges’ vote with her performance of classic The Parson’s Nose. Daisy was one of a number of young musicians from the school who took part in the competition. Head Liz Laybourn said: ‘This win...
The tale of Greek hero Orpheus, legend of the Ancient World, has been translated into a modern day setting for an ambitious and hilarious play by Foremarke Hall’s thespians. Best known as an operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld has been entirely rewritten for pupils in Years 7 and 8 at Foremarke Hall. For the school’s performance, the underworld into which Orpheus travels in pursuit of his love...
Oswestry School, as ever, had sweeping success at the Oswestry Music Festival this year. Year 8 pupil, Myles Wilkinson, was one of the outstanding pupils in this years’ competition coming away as the overall winner of the '12 and under' category and being named Young Performer of the Year. He has now been invited to perform as a guest artist at a concert given by The Scholars and Gentlemen where he...
A group of music students at Edge Grove have just returned home from a prestigious music tour in Sri Lanka where they were fortunate enough to work with over 300 other students. Playing on many local instruments they had never seen before while performing to classes of local children, the school’s musicians led individual groups in singing a round and developing songs further by using different...
A choir from Bromsgrove Preparatory School has won the Barnardo’s National Choral Competition. For the second year running, two choirs from the Prep School were selected for the grand final of the competition on Monday, held at the prestigious Royal Festival Hall in London. The Royal Festival Hall was awash with choirs, as the senior category also attracted some excellent singing groups. Each choir...
Musicians at Malvern St James Girls’ School recently celebrated the work of women composers with a powerful concert. The ‘Women in Music’ performance was held at the school with the aim of putting women composers in the spotlight and shining a light on the extraordinary and powerful music that they created. We are all familiar with the names Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, but how many of us have...
Tonbridge School pupil Alex Trigg has organised an evening of memorable music in support of Child Action Lanka. The concert will take place on Sunday 10 March in the school's chapel and will feature the debut performance of The Orchestra of St Augustine, which Alex founded and will be conducting. All proceeds will go to Child Action Lanka, one of the school’s charities, which aims to assist and...
Flautists from King’s Ely are to perform in this year’s British Suzuki Institute Celebration Concerts. The nine-strong Flute Choir has been selected to feature in one of the concerts at London's Southbank Centre on Sunday, 17th March after its teacher, Liz Hargest, submitted a recording of the students performing ‘You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two’ by writer and composer Lionel Bart. The...
Haileybury's main school pupils put on a fantastic performance of Fiddler on the Roof last week. With four performances at the local Hertford Theatre, the audience was treated to a memorable experience by the young talented actors and musicians. The story by Bock, Stein and Harnick tackles issues of social progress and revolution, alongside family ties, religious customs, gender inequality and...
Taunton Preparatory School Choirs have clinched the top two trophies at the recent Taunton Festival of the Arts. Both the 'Giocoso Choir' and 'Cantabile Choir' came top of the class in the Choir competition, bringing this year’s Taunton Festival of the Arts music categories to a particularly successful end for Taunton Preparatory School. The 'Giocoso Choir' came out victorious over eight other...
King’s Ely’s award-winning boys’ a cappella group – the King’s Barbers – will give a performance on tour in the south-western Indian state of Goa. They will perform at the Ketevan World Sacred Music Festival at Unesco Heritage City in Old Goa later this month (February), along with international soloists, ensembles and choirs. The King’s Barbers will be starring in the festival and will...
Former Cheltenham Ladies’ College student Sophie Dunley has been awarded a prestigious organ scholarship by The University of Oxford. Sophie, who attended the college between 2013 and 2018, will start in autumn 2019 to read Linguistics & Modern Greek at Pembroke College. During her time at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Sophie was also awarded the college’s own Organ Scholarship, which is...
Haileybury’s Lower School Chamber Choir have been selected as finalists in the Barnardo's National Choral Competition. The choir have been working very hard in the last few months, preparing under the expert direction of Andrew O’Brien, Director of Music at Haileybury. The pupils are delighted that their hard work has been acknowledged on a national level and look forward to the months...