Winter Concert 2022
On Thursday 1st December the music department commenced the school’s festive celebrations with the Winter Concert at St. Mary’s Church, Handsworth. Our first concert there was back in 2019. We returned last year to film students for our Winter Concert recording rather than hold an in-person event, so it had been 3 years since we had last held a concert there with an audience.
It was wonderful to see a packed church with over 90 students performing. The concert started with the Lower School choir under the direction of Mrs. Ward, who joined us in September 2022. The other ensembles performing that night were the Senior Keyboard Ensemble, String Quartet, String Ensemble, School Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, Lower School Woodwind Ensemble and Junior Guitar Ensemble. The programme was peppered with a range of solos and duets from students in all years. We enjoyed solo performances from Angus Huang (Classical Guitar), Jinjie Lin (Classical Guitar), Asher Jordan (Piano), Maximus Rueff (Trumpet), Manav Talwar (Violin), Hardev Manku (Piano), Raahil Junaid (Piano), Arjun Sond (Classical Guitar) and Daniel Earle (Euphonium). The pianists had the privilege of performing on an 8-foot Steinway Concert Grand Piano which, when new, cost over £150,000!
The success of this event is only possible because of the support of the students, parents, music staff and other school staff. To these people ‘thank you!’.
