The Purcell School Symphony Orchestra gave a concert to our biggest audience to date at the Watford Colosseum on Monday 16th October under the baton of Graham Ross. The orchestra…
We were sad to hear that former Purcell housemaster and Physical Education teacher Tony Duncan passed away in Australia on 30th October following a long battle with cancer. With his wife…
On the evening of Sunday 29th October 2017, Purcell pupils played a concert at the church of St Andrew’s in the village of Chinnor, Oxfordshire. The concert series runs on…
Pupils in year 10 at The Purcell School are celebrating their success in GCSE Music today. All pupils at the school sit their GCSE in Music at the end of…
Pupils at the school were delighted this morning to receive notification of their A Level results. Although there has been, across the country, some trepidation about the new-style A Levels,…
The International Percussion Youth Competition forms part of the Universal Marimba Competition and Festival Belgium. The competition welcomes percussionists from around the world to compete in three categories: Marimba Solo,…
Purcell students, Juliana Niu and Chelsea Becker, have won the Lower Junior Category (12-14 years) of the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition. Juliana and Chelsea joined three other winners,…
On 6th August 2017, alumnus Kerem Hasan became the recipient of the Nestle and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award 2017. The world-wide competition, which is in it’s eighth year, aims…
It is with the deepest of sympathy that we pay tribute to alumnus James Redfern who sadly passed away earlier this month. James was a truly gifted pianist, and during…
The Purcell School’s Contemporary Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra were delighted to open the Deal Festival of Music and the Arts on Friday 30th June. The beautiful early eighteenth-century parish church of…
