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Performers’ Platform – 6 October 2020

 

Sixths String Orchestra – rehearsing again!

Performers’ Platform – 28 September 2020

Shells’ Clef Club – every Monday

Young composers are hard at work creating musical masterpieces every Monday after school at Clef Club.

The Miss Margaret Davis Memorial Recital – 24 September 2020

Music Calendar 2020 – 2021

September’s Musical Renaissance

 

The String Orchestra of 15-strong, drawn from the Fourths and the Fifths started rehearsals again.

And here’s the best bit. Its leader and director is Peter Campbell-Kelly, one of the leaders of CBSO.

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.

The CBSO’s Centenary Celebration

It’s an on-line event, free to all, and we hope that everyone will support our friends and colleagues in the orchestra.

More details are available at:

https://cbso.co.uk/event/cbso100

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Sexagesimal Concert — the programme

 

As part of our Sexagesimal celebrations, we produced a short history of KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra, with contributions from its first players, Chief Masters and Principals, Directors of Music including Peter Bridle, as well as essays by current pupils.

You can read it by clicking the link below:

King Edward’s School, Birmingham, Sexagesimal Programme, KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra, 2020

Our thanks to Mr. Ash for the photograph.

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Sexagesimal Concert — Monday, 9 March, 2020

King Edward's School Birmingham and Lauren Zhang, Symphony Orchestra's anniversary concert

KES/KEHS Symphony Orchestra – Leaders past and present

Enoch Cheung, David Powis (1960), Renee Chang

Choral and Orchestral Concert, Sunday 8 March 2020

Sexagesimal Concert – 9 March 2020

Lunchtime Recital

 

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Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 13.10
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre

Naina Reddyviola
Ami Chen‘cello
Piano Trio: Ivy Lau, piano; Bronagh Lee, violin; Ami Chen, ‘cello

works by Bruch, Leighton and Shostakovich. 

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This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls

 

Lunchtime Recital

 

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Thursday, 6 February 2020 at 13.10
Ruddock Performing Arts Centre

Michael Heneghan – trumpet
Joe Ward – voice
Daniel Li – viola
String Quartet: Samantha Burley, violin; Jennifer Liu, violin; Naina Reddy, viola; Beatrice Beardmore, ‘cello.

works by Clarke, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Neruda, Schumann, Dvořák, Shostakovich. 

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This recital is presented jointly with King Edward VI High School for Girls