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Isobel Daws has been appointed Solo Trombone with the current London and Southern Counties brass band champions The Friary Guildford Band. ​ Heather Brooks has a place in the National Youth Harp Orchestra and has…

Year 8 pupils study insect specimens and make observational drawings to inspire their project Some of the specimens selected from the archive at the Natural History Museum, Tring The concertina…

Owl searching in Privet Drive The covered bridge at Hogwarts On the Thursday of Outings’ Week, eleven Muggles (nine Juniors along with Professors Hayward and Jacklin) were transported by the…

On Tuesday 19 January,  Year 12 art students visited the Wallace Collection, to take part in ‘Naked Bodies’, a life drawing workshop set within the context of the museum.  Purcellians…

  Many congratulations to our Head Boy and Head Girl, who have received Oxbridge offers for next year.  Tom Sparkes to read Music at Girton College Cambridge and Jenny Clarke to…

16 year-old Joe Parks has reached the Percussion category final of BBC Young Musician, the UK’s leading contest for young classical musicians. After an extensive audition process, judges have announced…

  Hailed by The Telegraph as ‘potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century’, Purcell alumnus Yevgeny Sudbin‘s latest recording for BIS Records has been given an International Classical Music…

European Pianorama logo   Purcell pupils onstage, introducing the Greek piece   Italy – very appropriately represented on our new Italian Fazioli piano!     On Tuesday 12 January, our…

Kevin Hathway leading a side-by-side orchestral rehearsal with Purcell pupils and the Berkshire Maestros Last Sunday afternoon Mr Hathway and Mr Sewart took 14 Purcellians to Stoneham Court in Reading to…

Carols by Candlelight at St. James’s, Bushey   Toby and members of Purcell Symphony Orchestra giving a workshop to local Primary School children (2013)     We are pleased to…