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Keep up to date with everything Purcell: Welcome to this (school) year’s first edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019 The nominations for Gramophone’s 2019 Orchestra of the Year Award (sponsored by Apple Music) have been announced! This year’s 10 nominated orchestras were: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Boston Symphony…

Welcome to our new school year and an exciting concert season at The Purcell School. This term is already off to a great start with new concert series at school including several excellent Rush Hour Recitals on Tuesdays at 5pm (starting Tuesday 10th September), a complete series of Beethoven Piano Sonatas, and a series of…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! Don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine!   The next edition of ‘Crescendo’ which will mark the final edition of the School Year will be published next week!   Purcell takes to…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell: Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! Don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine! Leader of NSSO Main Orchestra announced We’re delighted to announce that current Purcell student Daniel Garvin has been appointed leader of the NSSO Main Orchestra, following…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! Don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine! Proms at St Jude’s Residents of North London are in for a treat as the Proms at St Jude’s Music and Literary Festival is back…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! We hope everyone has enjoyed their first week back after half term, and don’t forget to read the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine!   DJESSE VOL. 2 Former Purcell student and renowned musician Jacob Collier…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights! (Due to next week being half term, there will not be an edition of Weekly Highlights, however we will be publishing the May edition of ‘Crescendo’ the School’s Official Magazine on May 31st)   Live at Lunchtime The…

Keep up to date with everything Purcell:   Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Heads of School Elections This week saw The Purcell School gripped by election fever as the 11 candidates for Head Girl and Head Boy stepped up in Assembly on Monday to launch their campaigns and spent all…

Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   MARTIN JAMES BARTLETT TO LAUNCH DEBUT ALBUM Former Purcell Student Martin James Bartlett is about to release his debut album with Warner Classics Love and Death! The album (coming out May 3rd) has already been picked up by Classic FM as its ‘Album of the…

Welcome to the first Weekly Highlights of the Summer Term, we hope everyone enjoyed their Easter break and is excited for a busy final term of the school year!   Purcell Enters the World of Live Streaming The Purcell School took an exciting step forward in the digital world! Yesterday (Thursday 25th April), we launched…