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Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! Don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine! Proms at St Jude’s Residents of North London are in for a treat as the Proms at St Jude’s Music and Literary Festival is back…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! We hope everyone has enjoyed their first week back after half term, and don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine!   DJESSE VOL. 2 Former Purcell student and renowned musician Jacob Collier…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! (Due to next week being half term, there will not be an edition of Weekly Highlights, however we will be publishing the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine on May 31st)   Live at Lunchtime The…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Heads of School Elections This week saw The Purcell School gripped by election fever as the 11 candidates for Head Girl and Head Boy stepped up in Assembly on Monday to launch their campaigns and spent all…

Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Klaipėda Piano Masters 2019 A big congratulations to Zara Williams on being selected to participate in the Klaipėda Piano Masters 2019 in Lithuania on 18 – 28 July. Zara is one of 25 students who have been selected and, the first UK National to attend…

Bringing Musicians Together Around the world, very few young people are learning how to compose music; this is why the Commonwealth International Composition Award was created. It is run and managed by The Commonwealth Resounds, an officially credited Commonwealth musical organisation, who work to enable collaborative educational and performance projects between UK musicians and overseas…

Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   MARTIN JAMES BARTLETT TO LAUNCH DEBUT ALBUM Former Purcell Student Martin James Bartlett is about to release his debut album with Warner Classics Love and Death! The album (coming out May 3rd) has already been picked up by Classic FM as its ‘Album of the…

Welcome to the first Weekly Highlights of the Summer Term, we hope everyone enjoyed their Easter break and is excited for a busy final term of the school year!   Purcell Enters the World of Live Streaming The Purcell School took an exciting step forward in the digital world! Yesterday (Thursday 25th April), we launched…

The Purcell School is taking an exciting step forward in the digital world! Tomorrow (Thursday 25th April), we are launching our first ever live streamed concert! This means no matter where you are in the world, as long as you have access to the internet, you will have the pleasure of watching our magnificent students…

Near the end of December last year, musician and former Purcell student Alex Ross sadly passed away. Over the past few months, students and staff, all of whom were extremely fond of Alex, have been coming together to remember the kind, loving and talented young musician that he was. Alex was a keen footballer and…