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'All art constantly aspires to the condition of music.'
Walter Pater
'Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.'
Victor Hugo
'Without music life would be a mistake.'
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The aim of the Music Department is to provide all members of the school community with an exciting and stimulating music environment which challenges and inspires, enhancing pupils’ and teachers’ overall school experience.
Music plays an important part in the daily school life including hymn-singing in assembly and regular music performances, as well as communal singing at end of term celebrations. It often has a cohesive role to play in the overall school. Whilst most pupils will not go on to pursue a career in music there is no doubt that music plays an essential part in everyone’s life and, if nothing else, the Department resolves to ensure that music is viewed enthusiastically and that pupils leave school with confident and positive musical opinions.
Staff
The Head of Department is Miss Helen Vickery who is assisted in academic teaching by one part-time colleague in the Senior School (Mr Danny Davies) and one part-time colleague in the Junior School (Miss Elizabeth Willcocks). There are also 16 visiting instrumental and singing teachers who provide individual tuition for most of the pupils in the school (for an extra fee) covering a wide range of instruments: piano, organ, violin and viola, ‘cello, flute, clarinet, oboe, recorder, saxophone, guitar, drum-kit and singing.