News & Events

Congratulations to Hyungi Lee, who won the School’s Arthur Felsenstein Leavers’ Award.  This is an annual competition open to members of the Upper VI Form of The Purcell School who…

Winners: Anna Disley-Simpson and Nathaniel Coxon with Sophie Sparkes, who was Highly Commended Congratulations to Nathaniel Coxon and Anna Disley-Simpson, who have won the prestigious 2014 BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’…

Our young harpists had great success at the 2014 North London Music Festival Competition.   First prize in the Ensemble Class was awarded to our harp quartet coached by Daphne…

Purcell School pupil Juliana Myslov has won First Prize at the prestigious Dutch Harp Festival in Utrecht. The competition, which is held every two years, is open to contestants from…

Great evening yesterday, supporting Martin in the Keyboard finals of the BBC Young Musician 2014. Too much mood lighting for my taste, as you can see from the photos below….

Purcell School pupil and composer, Alan Mofti (Y11), has been commissioned to write a short spectacular fanfare for the arrival of Her Majesty The Queen at Commonwealth Observance Day in…

Three Purcell pupils have reached the category finals of BBC Young Musician, the UK’s leading contest for young classical musicians.Juliana Myslov (17) – harpMartin Bartlett (17) – pianoIsobel Daws (14)…

Delightful Lower School Concert this afternoon – excellent brass ensemble, choir (pictured) and string orchestra. It was so good to see and hear the juniors on such great form. A…

Two inspirational associates from The Purcell School were awarded OBEs in the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list: Alison Cox, Head of Composition and Jenny Agutter, School Governor. On Friday 19th…

Despite the rain, we enjoyed another very successful Open Morning on Saturday, with more than 50 families sampling the live music, guided tours of the school, explosions in the Chemistry…