b'2024-2025 Music exam resultsHardevPiano 7 Dist.MankuEnzo Lee Piano 4 MeritSymphony Hall Visit Guanghui Tuba 3 PassLiChaniruGuitar 3 Dist.12th February 2025 RanasingheStanleyPiano 3 PassA huge thank you to Mrs Ward for taking the lead on this logistically challenging visit.ToddWe took all of Year 7 to Birminghams Symphony Hall. Over the course of two days,BrandonGuitar 2 Passthousands of school students attended one of four concerts given by the fabulous CitySindhuof Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall. The behaviourCosimo of the boys was exemplary throughout. The programme centred on film music andHansa Piano 2 Meritincluded music from Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars. We look forward to next years visit. DarrenPiano 2 MeritLounguedyWilliamPiano 2 PassWellsMUSICIANS IN ASSEMBLIES AayanPiano 1 MeritPiraniOver the past couple of years, we have endeavoured to provide our musiciansAum Rana Piano 1 Passwith as many opportunities to perform as possible. This has included invitingGloryPiano 1 Meritsome of our more able players to perform music at the beginning and end of eachAnishereassembly. In previous years, this was largely confined to our piano students whoZiheng Yin Clarinet 1 Passdo not require piano accompaniment. This academic year weve tried to include aMaxi wider range of instruments. This has included trumpet, violin, saxophone, classicalSkokna Flute 1 Passguitar, flute and dhol. For many of the instruments studied in school, a piano accompaniment is required to enable the performance to take place. Hence, youFilipClarinet Level Passwill have seen Mr Ward at the piano accompanying some of our very talented boys.Rusinowicz 2We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank these students forSafdariqbalFlute Level Passbeing willing and able to play in front of their peersnot always an easy thing toJaved 2do, but they have managed to do it in style. JacobSaxo-LevelChinnaiyan phone 1 PassRohanClarinet Level PassPatel 1JAZZ WORKSHOP IbrahimClarinet Level PassKhan 1There are almost 20 more students Over the Easter holidays, I attended theCasimir (a double bassist) and also Stevesitting exams in the Summer Term first New Sounds Jazz Workshop at theBanks (a guitarist), play jazz music forof 2025. We wish them every Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, a jazzus, and we were also allowed to suggestsuccess in their exam.workshop led by some of the UKs top jazzcompositions for them to play; I suggested musicians and composers. The course tookAutumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)Mr & Mrs Wardplace over three days, with a final musicalwhich they performed for us.sharing on the last day. There were aroundAfter the jam sessions, we would have a 28 participants in the workshop, agedplenary workshop as a whole group. On between 11 and 18, and we started eachthe first day, Trish taught us conducting day at 10am with a 45-minute warm-up,and I got to conduct a whole orchestra ofmusical sharing, where we could invite where we would do vocal practices togetherjazz musicians, which was very fun! Thefriends and family to listen to us play so they with Sara Colman, a vocalist. After, atplenary session on the second day wascould hear what we had been learning over around 10:45, we would go to our practicemore focused on rhythm training, taught bythe course. Some of the most important rooms and have an ensemble session inJonathan. The rhythm session was quiteskills I learnt through this course were groups of approximately eight musiciansinteresting and we learnt how to use differentimprovisation, which we were encouraged that lasted an hour and a half. My group,rhythms to make our jazz performancesto do in each of our songs, and how to which was led by Jonathan Silk (a drummermore interesting. On the third day, ourmanipulate rhythms for jazz music, both of and percussionist) and Rebecca Nash (aplenary session involved us writing a songwhich have massively improved my ability pianist), consisted of a drummer, a classicaltogether as a whole group. I opted to helpto play jazz music on my instruments. We guitarist, a bassist, a flautist, a saxophonist,write lyrics with two of the young vocalistswere also taught to interpret music through a trumpeter, a clarinettist and two pianistsand Sara, instead of playing my instrument.intervals instead of notes and we learnt and (including me). Together, we learnt TakeI asked Sara to sing the line I wrote insteadimplemented different musical modes and the Coltrane by Duke Ellington and Johnof me, so our song could have three femalescales in our songs. This course allowed me Coltrane, Mra Khali by Julian Arguelles,vocalists, which I believed helped with theto appreciate jazz music to a new level, and and Jig-a-Jug by Joshua Redman. After,atmosphere of the song. it was an amazing experience that I am very we would get to listen to our tutors, whograteful to have participated in.included Jonathan, Rebecca and Sara, butOn the final day, instead of having a secondAdam Cunningham, Year 10also Trish Clowes (a saxophonist), Danielensemble session, we instead had a 57'