Musical Mastery at Teatime Concert

On Tuesday, Year Eight pupils delivered a fantastic Teatime Concert, with twenty-one pupils from the Year group, as well as two pupils from Year Nine. This provided a real range and richness of music. The Years Eight and Nine Junior Chamber Choir began the Concert with a confident and assured performance, from memory, or ‘From Now On’ from the musical ‘The Greatest Showman’. A whole host of solo songs were performed by Daisy Swatton, Beth Sweeney, Lucy Smith, Rhys Barker, Annalisa Harris, Immy Raxter, Seb Steadman, Emily Cowper accompanied superbly on the piano by Kate Yurchenko, and a duet by Erin Reid and Annabelle Round, covering a range of theatre and popular music styles.

Reflective piano solos played by Ruby Li and Sean Yang were complemented by more jazzy piano numbers by Hannes Farmer and Carolina de Fano. Anwyn Drury and Andrei Zota played a bluesy duet on their saxophones, whilst Roshan Wijesinghe raised the decibel level with a fiendishly hard and compelling drum piece called ‘Pass the Pepper’. Two violin pieces rounded off the programme: William Morrisey’s gentle ‘Ashokan Farewell’ and, to close the concert, Harry Edwards playing the spirited set of folk variations ‘The Deil amang the Tailors’.

We would like to thank all of the pupils who performed and gave the audience a really enjoyable Concert. On Tuesday 10 June it is the turn of Year Seven pupils to perform in what will be the final Teatime Concert of the academic year.