King Edward's Music
Music at King Edward's School, Birmingham
December 8, 2017
Instrumental Evening
Monday, 4 December 2017 at 1800
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
An informal concert given by guitar and drum kit 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
November 14, 2017
Lunchtime Recital
Thursday, 16 November at 1310
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
Jacques Ibert Cinq Pièces en Trio
Witold Lutosławski Chain 1
Jacques Ibert Divertissement
Wind Trio: Charlotte Chapman, oboe; Peter Murphy, clarinet; Rhea Suribhatla, bassoon.
KES/KEHS Chamber Ensembles: Jieyi Li, flute, piccolo, alto flute; Charlotte Chapman, oboe; James Cleasby, clarinet; Rhea Suribhatla, bassoon; Michael Heneghan, trumpet; Nathan Cornish, trombone; Lauren Zhang, piano; Sam Howorth, harpsichord; James Perry, percussion; Jack Barron, percussion; Alice Beardmore, violin; Beth Zheng, violin; Jess Tedd, violin; Renee Chang, violin; Charlotte Howdle, violin; Gabriel Wong, viola; Rosy Heneghan, viola; Eben Gutteridge, viola; Daniel Li, viola; Isabel Russell, cello; Enoch Cheung, cello; Beatrice Beardmore, cello; Mark Li, cello; Anumita Bagchi, double bass.
This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
November 14, 2017
Performers’ Platform
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 at 18.30
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
Cathy Ge, piano
Naima Hamid, guitar
Eben Gutteridge, viola
Melissa Yuan, piano
Lydia Jin, violin
Shivanii Arun, piano
Michael Heneghan, trumpet
Piano Quintet: Jess Tedd, violin; Jiaqi Cao, violin; Naina Reddy, viola; Mark Li, cello; Micahel Luo, piano.
solo works by Debussy, Yocoh, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Kabalevsky, Balakirev/Glinka, Hummel, and the first movement of Bruch’s Piano Quintet
This concert is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls
November 14, 2017
Instrumental Evening – strings
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
November 7, 2017
Recital at the Barber Institute
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
November 7, 2017
Instrumental Evening – woodwind and brass
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
November 7, 2017
Lunchtime Recital Last Week
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
November 6, 2017
A musical afternoon for the Shells of King Edward’s School.
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)
November 5, 2017
Duet in F sharp for two bassoons by Christopher Churcher
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.
October 9, 2017
Performers’ Platform
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
October 3, 2017
From AP100 launch
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
July 14, 2017
King Edward’s School at the first night of the BBC Proms
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.
