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Purcell School pupil, Aleem Kandour (UVI), has been selected to perform at a special concert to promote peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.  The concert will take place on Monday 1st April in the city of Hiroshima, Japan.  Performances will be given by young musicians from all over the world, including the Carnegie Hall…

Congratulations to Purcell School alumnus Sean Heath, who recently received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO).  He was awarded three prizes related to this exam: the Turpin Prize and Durrant Prize, the Harding Prize and Durrant Prize and the Samuel Baker Prize.  After completing his A Levels at The Purcell School, Sean continued his studies at Cambridge…

The Purcell School was delighted and proud to receive two very special guests on Wednesday 28th January. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, formerly Master of the Queen’s Music, and Dr. Anthony Gilbert, who created the UK’s first conservatoire Composition Department with Sir John Manduell in the 1970s, both came to help celebrate Nineteen Thirty Four, a…

To mark the birthday of Robert Burns, head girl Lucie Treacher persuaded her Dad to come all the way down from Scotland to pipe in the haggis at lunch yesterday. Video below courtesy of Mr Longstaff.

Chamber Choir (and friend!) pictured after their outstanding concert at the lovely St Martin-in-the-Fields today. Well done, everyone!

Folk tunes, wellies and two countrified oboists… Yr Obo Teithio (meaning ‘The Travelling Oboes’ in Welsh) are a student duo studying at The Purcell School.  Elen Morgan-Williams and Caitlin Heathcote have just embarked on a year-long series of performances across Great Britain, dedicated to the late Jennifer Caws.  From January to August 2015, they will be putting on around 15 concerts, performing…

​For quite a few years now, our Art Department Technician, Alison Humphrey has been knitting little hats for the Innocent Big Knit.  This year, she went a step further and started a knitting club at Purcell where pupils could have fun and learn to knit for a great cause.  The aim was to knit as…

Huge congratulations to our Wigmore Hall performers for a fantastic concert on Sunday evening. Outstanding performances were given by all to a big audience.  Some sound clips to be uploaded soon! Our next showcase concert will be at the Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican on Tuesday 12 November, 7:30pm.  Details are here and below: Milton Court Concert Hall, Barbican Centre, London…

Purcell pupil, Lucinda Rimmer (Year 10) is one of five talented young composers to win the 2013 BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition. Lucinda’s piece Sunset Dance at Menkaura was inspired by Menkaura, the smallest pyramid in Egypt.  She used instrumentation to reflect traditional Egyptian music, with a piano drone, flute, the reedy sound of the oboe…

Please come and see this year’s Art Exhibition – Wednesday 26 June, 5.00-9.00pm. Congratulations to all the artists on some amazing work.