News & Events

  Young musicians at The Purcell School gave two staged performances of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with a libretto by Nahum Tate, over the weekend.  Mary Kate Gill, Head…

  The Purcell Piano Department spent the weekend in Glasgow, performing three concerts alongside students from the Royal Conservatiore, in a programme of music from Prokofiev‘s Ballets: Romeo and Juliet,…

A very big well done to Sean Payne (Year 11) who played a warm up set for our Head of Jazz, Simon Allen’s gig at Bracknell Jazz in South Hill…

  Well done to Billy Watman (guitar), Mikako Shimatani (violin) and four of our clarinettists (Rachel Hannigan, Michael Madigan, Lily Payne and Thomas Gant) who entertained visitors this weekend at…

  BBC Young Musician, the UK’s leading contest for young musicians, announces the winner of its 2016 Jazz Award: 17-year-old trumpeter Alexandra Ridout. Following an extensive audition process, the final…

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with our composers and Alison Cox, in 2013   Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with our orchestra     Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, former Master of the…

  The charming twelfth-century church of St Mary’s Perivale, for centuries a village parish church, is now a chamber music venue on the London musical scene.  Under the direction of…

  On Saturday 1st October, the Piano Department welcomed Federico Colli to The Purcell School.  The Italian pianist, winner of the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition and the 2011 Salzburg…

Purcell alumnus, Martin James Bartlett had a busy summer which included two particularly high profile concerts.  On Sunday 9 August, Martin gave his Proms debut, with a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue…

Alexander Ullman Ashley Fripp Kausikan Rajeshkumar Three pianists from the UK  have qualified to compete in the 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition.  All three are Purcell School alumni!  Kausikan Rajeshkumar studied with Tessa Nicholson…