Monday, 13 November at 1800
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
An informal concert given by string players from King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for Girls.
This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Friday, 10 November at 1310
Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Daniel Yue, violin
String Quartet: Beth Zheng, violin; Melissa Yuan, violin; Melissa Yao, viola; Isabel Russel, cello.
Piano Quintet: Philip Edwards, violin; Gabriel Wong, violin; Rosy Heneghan, viola; Eugene Toso, cello; Naomi Bazlov, piano.
works by Bach, Bazzini, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák and Shostakovich
This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Monday, 6 November at 1800
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
An informal concert given by woodwind and brass players from King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for Girls.
This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Thursday, 2 November at 13.10
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
Arun Ramanathan, violin
Charlotte Chapman, oboe
Nathan Cornish, trombone
works by Elgar, Telemann, Rubbra, Šulek and Pryor
This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
Friday, 3 November 2017
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
Adam Romer, viola
Margaret Cookhorn, bassoon and contra-bassoon
Tom Redmond, horn
As a musician, I was delighted to find out that representatives of the CBSO would be coming to see us! When I was younger, I saw people from the CBSO on YouTube and they helped me massively with improving as a bassoonist. I enjoyed seeing the viola, the French horn and the bassoon and finding more about each of the instruments. I particularly enjoyed the bassoon duet as well as the tunes that we all knew on the French horn and some amazing pieces on the viola that had a lot of emotions – one moment happy, the next sad. It was great to explore how the French horn turned from a hunter’s horn to something as complicated as it is now and how the colour impacts the sound, how the bassoon and the contrabassoon can go really low and quite high as well and also how the viola can be plucked and bowed. I also learnt how all instruments make their sound: vibration, and how they make it, from reeds to bows to mouth buzzes. It was a really interesting and hard to beat Friday afternoon activity!
Ben Woodward (Shell)
On Friday, 3 November, the first performance was given of Upper Middle Christopher Churcher’s Duet in F sharp for two bassoons. The performers were Margaret Cookhorn, principal contra-bassoonist of the CBSO and Christopher himself.
Tuesday, 10 October 2017 at 18.30
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
James Cleasby, clarinet
Nikita Jain, bassoon
Daniel Li, viola
Adam Mukoon, violin
Junias Wong, violin
Jessie Zhao, piano
Rick Zheng, cello
and a String Quartet who will perform a movement of Beethoven’s quartet op.18, no.3
This concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
On 18th September, our AP100 ensemble performed during the launch of the King Edward’s School’s accessibility campaign in a bid to secure permanent need-blind admission to the school.
The programme was:
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713): Suite for string orchestra
i. Sarabanda
ii. Giga
iii. Bardinerie
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706): Canon
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Concerto in D
i. Vivace
ii. ARIOSO: Andantino
iii. RONDO: Allegro
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.
At the end of their first academic year at King Edward’s, it’s great to celebrate all the musical things our Shells (year 7) have achieved, and all that is to come. Here are some photographs of our Shells in performance, in rehearsal, or at Clef Club.
The concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
The 2017 Jazz Evening was held on Sunday, 25 June. Senior Swing Band was joined once more by Joe Thompson and Robert Rickenberg for workshops and performances.
An old boy of the school, Joe is house pianist at the Ivy in London, and brought to King Edward’s his characteristic blend of wit and musicianship. You can read more about him at: www.joethompson.london.
Our soloists included Lily Gain, Eva Neville, Molly Thompson, Satish Vaze, Altay Gardiner, Matt Madden, and Nathan Cornish.
It is a year since our performance of ‘Romany Wood.’ Led by King Edward’s School, this project connected pupils from 15 diverse schools, making it possible for the 800 participating children to perform together on-stage in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, raising money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. A cheque for £1323.50 was presented this term by the Chief Master to Tanita Mistry of the hospital, supporting the wonderful work done there.
You can see a gallery of Mr. Ash’s photographs documenting the Romany Wood project here:
http://www.davidashphotography.org/Galleries/King-Edwards/Music/Romany-Wood
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