Each year the School gives over 150 performances. Concerts in School range from daily lunchtime performances to full-length instrumental evening concerts. There are also performances by composers, Jazz and Music Technology students as well as orchestral and choral concerts. Large scale concerts take place in the School’s 250-seat Constance Pilkington Hall. The Purcell School has a state-of-the-art Music Centre which incorporates a 100-seat recital hall complete with recording facilities for its chamber recitals.
The Purcell School performs regularly at major London venues including Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre, St. John’s Smith Square, Steinway Hall and the conservatoires. Pupils are also invited to perform at music clubs throughout the UK and are frequently included in concert series at universities. The School organises international tours and has given concerts in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Iceland, Malta, the USA and Japan.
Community projects are an increasing part of the School’s performing portfolio: it undertakes workshops in Cornish schools and its Impulse groups work with schools across the UK including London, Norfolk, Wales and Southampton.
Each term the department issues a Concert Guide that is distributed to a mailing list of over 3000. If you would like to be included on this mailing list please telephone or email the Concerts Manager.
Free Lunchtime concerts take place in the Constance Pilkington Hall on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 12:20pm to which we welcome an external audience. Please contact the Concerts Office on the day you plan to come to check that the concert is taking place.
Jane Hunt
Concerts and Recruitment Manager
Tel. 01923 331138
Fax. 01923 331166
Recital Room
10th March 2010 | 7pm
A varied evening of music given by Lower School pupils.
Admission Free
Constance Pilkington Hall
10th March 2010 | 7pm
Unfortunately this concert has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Recital Room
11th March 2010 | 7pm
Marie Oka - violin
Youra Park - violin
Phoebe Snelling - violin
Harriet Stoner - violin
Free Admission
Constance Pilkington Hall
12th March 2010 | 2 - 4pm
Distinguished violinist Zvi Zeitlin was raised and educated in Israel. He is a renowned performer, teacher and adjudicator, holding masterclasses all over the world including teaching at The Royal Academy of Music, Chetham’s, and the Royal Northern College of Music. He is currently
Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music NY.
Tickets: £5; £3 students
Box Office: 01923 331138 / 09
j.hunt@purcell-school.org
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
17th March 2010 | 7.45pm
Selected senior pianists perform short recitals at the most intimate concert hall venue in the Southbank Centre.
This annual concert is generously sponsored by David Morgan in memory of his brother Freddy who was a keen amateur pianist.
BEETHOVEN Eroica Variations op. 35
Rafael Gutierrez-Velez
SCHUMANN Novelette op. 21 no. 1
BRAHMS Intermezzo op.117
Men Gei Li
HAYDN English Sonata in Eb major Hob XVI:52
SCHUMANN Abegg Variations op.1
Sunny Woo
SCHUMANN Novelette op.21 no.8
CHOPIN Ballade no.1 in G minor
Olga Jorgensen
Tickets: £10; £8
Booking Fee: £1.45 (members: £0.00)
Concessions: 50% off limited availability
Box Office: 0871 663 2500
Online booking: www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Recital Room
18th March 2010 | 7pm
Alice Pollock - voice
Erik Vardanyan - violin
Liam Heath - jazz trumpet
Hristo Dushev - percussion
John Conway - piano
Admission Free
St. Albans Abbey
29th April 2010 | 7.30pm
J.S. BACH St John Passion, BWV 245 (Novello edition ed. N. Jenkins).
Sung in English
The Purcell School Choir & Orchestra
Quentin Poole – Conductor
Claire Seaton – Soprano
Michael Chance – Countertenor
TBC - Tenor
Mark Dobell – Tenor: Evangelist
Michael Bundy - Baritone
Stephen Varcoe – Baritone: Jesus
Ian McMillan – Organ
£12, £10 (reserved); £8 students & concessions; £5 children & unreserved.
Tickets on sale at the Cathedral Information Desk from 18th March 2010
Wigmore Hall
8th May 2010 | 7.30pm
The School's annual evening of chamber music presented at one of the world's most important recital venues.
Programme & ticket information available soon!
