Music Festival Concert

Thursday, 11th March 2010



Immanuel College pupils from across the school once again took part in the annual Music Festival, which culminated with the Winners’ Concert on Thursday night, 11th March.

The Festival aims to nurture and celebrate the talents of the College’s musicians, whatever their level of musical proficiency. It further aims to provide opportunities for young musicians to perform in front of an audience and to receive constructive feedback from an expert adjudicator in order to improve their practical musicianship.

This year’s Festival attracted over 100 contestants, who were judged by two highly experienced musicians, Anna Wilby and Nicholas Robinson.  Anna Wilby is a graduate of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and has attained an MMus in Advanced Performance from the Royal College of Music; she is currently Director of Music of The John Lyon School in Harrow.  Nicholas Robinson was an organ scholar at the Royal Academy of Music and is currently Director of Music at St Peter’s Church, St. Albans, which he combines with a career as a choral conductor and as an accompanist.  He is also a music master at Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire.

Pupils were judged from Grades 1 to 8 in the following categories: Strings, Piano, Male Voice, Female Voice, Strings, Brass, Woodwind, Rock and Jazz Ensemble, Guitar, Percussion, Classical Ensemble, Composition, Keyboard and Woodwind. The winners in each sub-category performed their winning pieces at the concert on Thursday evening, accompanied by the school orchestra, which opened the evening with Liberty Bell, with the Monty Python ‘alternative’ ending.
 

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