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  On this International Women’s Day, we are proud to celebrate the work and achievements of The Purcell School’s exceptionally talented female first study composers. Alison Cox OBE, Head of Composition, explains that the School is particularly fortunate to have such a strong and high percentage of female composers who are all ‘doing amazing things…

  Year 8 Purcell student, Philip Theodorou, was shortlisted for the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers scheme last summer. He recalled the moment he heard of his success saying ‘I scared my dog because I screamed so loudly’. As part of this experience, the shortlisted few – including Philip and last year’s Head Boy, Tom Sparkes…

  First study composers from The Purcell School have been working with Music Off Canvas, a pioneering collective of musicians specialising in cross-arts collaborative practice, to compose pieces in response to the Saatchi Gallery exhibition Painters’ Painters. The exhibition draws together nine present-day painters whose work is seen to be influencing a younger generation of…

Purcell alumna, Mica Levi has been nominated for Best Original Score at the 2017 Academy Awards and Best Original Music at the 2017 EE British Academy Film Awards for her work on Jackie, the biopic about former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Mica studied at The Purcell School from the age of nine, and then…

Congratulations to Purcell pupil, Lauren Marshall, who has not only been appointed Principal Composer in the National Youth Orchestra (NYO), but has also delivered an extraordinary original piece, Suspended between earth and air, to open the NYO’s 2017 Winter Concert tour. Lauren has studied at The Purcell School since 2009 under Simon Speare for composition,…

​​The Purcell School’s Composition Department is enormously grateful to Adrian Connell and Universal Edition in London and Vienna, who have generously made it possible for our young composers to study Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony, using Universal Edition’s beautiful scores. Many younger people are unaware of the valuable work of publishers such as Universal Edition, who support…