Senior Swing Band 2021-22
We are delighted that rehearsals are back in person this year! Here is our Senior Swing Band in action:
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September 21, 2021
Shells’ Recital 2021
Shells’ Recital, September 2019
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
18:00 in the Ruddock Hall
Tonight is the opening of our concert season; the Shells’ first ever concert at King Edward’s School.
19 performances will be given by this most remarkable year of Shells. Admission is free and you do not have to book in advance.
May 24, 2021
The Royal Philharmonic’s Society’s Young Classical Writers’ Prize
Christopher Churcher in the Divisions has just been specially commended in the Royal Philharmonic’s Society’s Young Classical Writers’ Prize. His essay is on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the piece which initially drew him to classical music.
You can read more about the competition here. Christopher’s essay is posted here.
October 12, 2020
Shells’ Orchestra Debut
On Thursday, 8 October Shells’ Orchestra started rehearsing with the amazing Mrs Akehurst. We are looking forward to hearing some amazing results.
October 12, 2020
CBSO presentation for Shells
9 October 2020, Ruddock Hall
October 6, 2020
Nothing stops the Music Department!
Undeterred by angry skies and wind, our trumpeters were rehearsing outside!
October 6, 2020
Chamber Music Afternoons at King Edward’s
Removes are enjoying their chamber ensembles on Thursday afternoons.
September 21, 2020
Instrumental Lessons are back!
We are so pleased to welcome back pupils to “live” instrumental lessons. It is lovely to hear corridors of KES filled with music.
September 21, 2020
Shells’ Recital 2020
Shells’ Recital, September 2019
Monday, 21 September 2020
Online
Tonight is the opening of our concert season, the first ever pre-recorded on-line concert at King Edward’s School. Shells’ Recital is the start of it all.
32 performances given by this most remarkable year of Shells.
December 16, 2019
Margaret Cookhorn on BBC Radio 3
Inside Music
Today, bassoonist and principal contrabassoonist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Margaret Cookhorn shares her excitement about a rare experience – playing the contrabassoon in chamber music by Mozart. She also analyses how Richard Strauss brings exotic flavours to the orchestra in his take on Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils, and explains her fascination for patterns in the music of Benjamin Britten. Margaret’s choices range from a miniature by Elgar played by violinist Nigel Kennedy to part of Messiaen’s massive Turangalila Symphony, plus vocal acrobatics from Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby McFerrin.
You can read more at the programme by visiting:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2jdyd
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