Alumni News

On Tuesday 27th November, The Purcell School hosted its annual Fundraising Gala at Drapers’ Hall; an evening of fine dining and wonderful music to raise vital funds for the School….

Purcell alumna Alexandra Ridout has been awarded the Rising Star Award at the 2018 BBC British Jazz Awards. The Rising Star Award is given to the best up and coming…

Recent Purcell graduate, Seth Tackaberry has been listed as a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2018 Competition. This year the final is hosted as part of the EFG…

The Delegates are a popular soul band that formed here at The Purcell School for Young Musicians and have since gained a large following and have reached over 30,000 views…

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Oliver Knussen. A treasured alumnus, composer and conductor, Oliver was one of the leading and most generous musicians of our…

Today, 29th March 2018, marks the centenary of Rosemary Rapaport’s birth. Rosemary Rapaport was a gifted violinist whose talent for teaching was such that in 1962 she co-founded a specialist…

We were shocked to hear of Rohan Stewart-MacDonald’s tragic death in a road accident on 13th December 2017 at the age of 42. A Purcell student when the School was…

On 6th August 2017, alumnus Kerem Hasan became the recipient of the Nestle and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award 2017. The world-wide competition, which is in it’s eighth year, aims…

It is with the deepest of sympathy that we pay tribute to alumnus James Redfern who sadly passed away earlier this month. James was a truly gifted pianist, and during…

  On 29th April 2017, the New World Symphony premiered the latest work by Purcell alumnus, Oscar Bettison, at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, USA. The startling new score, ‘Lights…