Weekly Highlights – November 29th

It has been another fantastic week here at The Purcell School!

RHYS CONCESSAO

won the Valerie Childs Cup in the ‘Open Piano Recital’ category at the 23rd annual Marlow Festival of Music and Drama presented by the Mayor of Marlow.

ELISSA STREET

had her original composition The Terror Reigns for double SSAA choir and two clarinets was premiered last weekend by the choir Gloriana in a concert entitled ‘Poppies Power and Peace’ at St Paul’s, Knightsbridge. The piece, written especially for this event, was a setting of the poem Miss Hobhouse by Alice Green. Both women were active campaigners for women’s rights. In additional, Elissa accompanied the choir on the clarinet for ‘If music by’ by Judith Bingham. The conductor, Debbie Miles-johnson, said that both her playing and The Terror Reigns were very impressive. The song was “so strong, and very effective to perform”. Elissa was also on a National Youth Choir course that weekend and will be singing with the National Youth Chamber Choir in The Albert Hall in December.

THE PURCELL SCHOOL FUNDRAISING GALA

took place on Tuesday 27th November at Drapers’ Hall in London. The evening was a huge success with performances from The Purcell School String Quartet (Natalya, Abigail, Yasmin and Jasmine), the Purcell Vocal Group (Jaison, Gayatri, Emily, Elissa and Ka Youn) led by Edward Longstaff, violinist Ioan-Octavian, the Wind Quintet (Francesca, Verity, Joseph, Elissa and Ellen), the Jazz Quartet (Daniel, Miles, Lorenzo and Jack) and our Gala Scholar pianist Yumeka closing the evening. A full article on the evening can be found here. (Photos to follow)

MASTERCLASS FROM BRITISH VIOLINIST JACK LIEBECK

In 2010, Jack won a Classical Brit in the young British classical performer category. He was soloist on the score for the 2011 film Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and also on the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated soundtrack for Anna Karenina.

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