Music

30 Jun Music

A number of our brass and woodwind students recently had the opportunity to take part in a fantastic project in partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra and other school groups. They took part in a series of workshops where they created parts to fit into a larger piece.  This drew inspiration from both Gamelan and Romanian Folk Dances. Once they had their own sections rehearsed, they met up with other school groups to put all of the sections together. On 22^nd June, they performed this large-scale work in the foyer at the Barbican Centre in London.  The sound was fantastic and we were impressed by how quickly they had created this piece and rehearsed it to performance standard.

After the performance, we stayed to watch the LSO perform works by Ravel, Kodaly and Debussy, before a fantastic finale which involved students from the ‘LSO Next Generation’ project, including one of our very own: Sergiu Brataon 8G. They were on stage with the LSO performing a world premiere of the piece ‘Crimson River’ by Moody.  This was a fantastic composition which allowed a lot of space to feature the young musicians independently as well as alongside the LSO.

Students involved in the foyer performance were as follows: Filip Zajdler (7H), Rebecca Portbury (8D), Charlie Brown (8E), Harrison Whyte (8F), Jonjoe Mould (8G), Ibukun Silva-Ope (9F), Omone Akhabhau (9G), Gerren Ntiri (9G), Arsel Alaj (9H), Hafusat Adeyemi (11D) and Teri Keenan (11G)

Well done to all students involved for being excellent representatives of the school; you should be proud of what you have achieved – I know we are!

Music Department