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  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Awards for Young Musicians (AYM), Future Talent and BBC 30 Second Challenge Composer Maddy (Year 10) has had a busy half term! She has been the recipient of both an AYM Award and a Future Talent Award, and explained that this will allow ‘me…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Lower School Composition Competition 2020 On Wednesday morning, Purcell’s Composition Department hosted the much-anticipated and appropriately socially-distanced Oscar’s Ceremony for the Lower School Composition Competition 2020 (affectionately known as Comp Comp). Amongst the many awards presented, was the highly coveted Gold Trophy for the…

Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Composers Concert Last week, staff and boarders were treated to an extraordinary evening of new music thanks to the considerable talents of three first study Year 13 composers – Jonathan, Reuben and Juliana – and their students players. Year 10 composer Edward was in the…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Chineke! Junior Orchestra BGT Semi-Final Earlier this year the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, a youth orchestra of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse players aged 11-22, were invited to audition for Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) at the London Palladium. We are delighted to be able to…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Out Of This World Young Writers Poetry Competition We are delighted to announce that two Purcell students have became published poets! Last year April Sobczak and Maya-Ashanti Anicet (both Year 7) entered the Young Writers Poetry Competition and, during lockdown, were selected for inclusion…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   BBC Young Composers Competition 2020 Purcell students Rowena Jones and Jasmine Morris have been named winners of this year’s BBC Young Composer competition. Rowena won the Upper Juniors (12 – 14 years) category with her piece ‘Spring2020’, and Jasmine triumphed with ‘Sirens for harp…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Purcell Perform In Memory of Oliver Knussen Last Sunday the School presented a whole day of stunning music-making at the Southbank Centre in memory of the great contemporary composer and alumnus Oliver Knussen. Four ambitious concerts were given by over 100 Purcell students, staff,…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Happy Valentine’s Day ‘Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.’ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Escape Room Experience Last weekend some of the boarders took on the challenge of heading to an Escape Room. Divided into two teams they were faced with three…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Primary School Visit On Tuesday, we welcomed 30 children from Newton Farm Primary School in Harrow to the School for an immersive event. Purcell students performed a 40 minute recital followed by a Q&A session and interactive workshop. The workshop involved the visiting primary…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Jacob Collier Wins 3rd and 4th Grammy Alumnus, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier won two Grammys at last weekend’s 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. Jacob was awarded Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for Moon River, and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals for All Night…