Peter & the Wolf: Bourville and Tiverton Primary Schools
Pupils at Bourville and Tiverton Primary schools are working very hard on their composition pieces to be performed on 5 February at the Ruddock Hall.
This is just the taster of the musical soundscape they created. We are all very excited to hear their live performance!
Peter & the Wolf and the Firebird
The Ruddock Hall
1800, Tuesday, 5 February 2019
There’s a very special event at King Edward’s next week. At 1800 on Tuesday, 5 February, KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra will perform Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, followed by the 1919 suite from Stravinsky’s Firebird.
Both works are highly colourful, paint vivid pictures of characters, tell stories of the imagination. Capitalising on this, we have invited James Mayhew, author, illustrator, and artist, to perform with us. He will narrate Peter, and, at the same time, paint pictures of the stories live with the music. It’s hard to describe, but, once seen, it’s an extra-ordinary experience, quite impossible to forget.
The performance lasts only for an hour, and the early start means that it’s a perfect evening for children of all ages.
Tickets, priced £5, are available at:
If you would like to come straight from school to the Ruddock Hall, we offer a children’s picnic tea at 1715. The combined price for tea and concert is £8.50.
It’s going to be a really special evening.
Monday, 10 December 2018 at 1930
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
The programme includes performances given by:
Choral Society
Concert Band
Concert Orchestra
Senior Swing Band
KEHS Lower School Choir
KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
There is still time to enjoy Lauren Zhang’s triumph in BBC Young Musician 2018. The final is available on the BBC’s iPlayer, which you can visit by clicking on this link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0b2xv8b/bbc-young-musician-2018-final
We are very proud to announce that Lauren Zhang, a pianist from KEHS, is a finalist in BBC Young Musician 2018. She has elected to play Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, and will perform with the CBSO conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.
You can see the final on BBC4 television at 1900 on Sunday, 13 May and hear it on BBC Radio 3.
We wish her well in this great adventure.
You can read more about the finalists in BBC Young Musician at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44086034
Monday 23 April at 19.00
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
The programme includes performances given by choirs and orchestras from King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for girls.
Tickets available from http://www.ruddockpac.co.uk or by calling 0121 472 9585 between 13.00 and 15.00 Monday to Friday.
Monday, 11 December at 1930
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
The programme includes performances given by:
Choral Society
Senior Swing Band
KEHS Lower School Choir
Concert Band
Concert Orchestra
KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 1930
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
The programme includes performances given by:
KES Choir
Junior Swing Band
KEHS Chamber Choir
Concert Band
KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 1500
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
The programme includes performances given by:
Choral Society
Wind Band
Training String Orchestra
Senior Swing Band
KEHS Chamber Choir
KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Tom Coult: St John’s Dance (BBC commission: world premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
John Adams: Harmonium
Igor Levit, piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Richard Franklin, Haine Hock, Abhinav Jain, David Millross, and former King Edward’s boys sing Adams’s extra-ordinary Harmonium as part of the Proms Youth Choir in the first night of the Proms. The performance is a celebration of John Adams’s seventieth birthday this year.
The concert is in the Royal Albert Hall, and will be broadcast on BBC television and radio. You can read more on the BBC Proms website.
Poster design by Aloysius Lip
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Prom 72 — 9 September
Jedidiah Cheung, James Cleasbsy, Richard Franklin, Haine Hock, Edward Hodge, Aaron Jackson, Abhinav Jain, David Millross, Angus Forshaw, Miles McCollum, and Michael Ollerenshaw are part of the Proms Youth Choir, singing Verdi’s Requiem. The incomparable Marin Alsop conducts.
This concert is broadcast live at 1930 on BBC4 television, as well as on BBC Radio 3.
Prom 29 — 6 August
Jedidiah Cheung and Philip Edwards are members of National Youth Orchestra, which plays Richard Strauss, Schiphorst, Holst, and Matthews in Prom 29, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Prom 72 — 9 September
Jedidiah Cheung, James Cleasbsy, Richard Franklin, Haine Hock, Edward Hodge, Aaron Jackson, Abhinav Jain, David Millross, Angus Forshaw, Miles McCollum, and Michael Ollerenshaw are part of the Proms Youth Choir, singing Verdi’s Requiem. The incomparable Marin Alsop conducts.
