Our annual Fanny Davies Music Festival, named after Fanny Davies who taught piano at FHS in the 1880s, is one of our longest held school traditions which offers pupils from Year 7 to 13 the opportunity to showcase their breath-taking musical talents for an audience of friends, staff and judges. This year’s special guest judge was Jennifer Sterling, who has had an illustrious musical career as a soprano, choral conductor and teacher and is now Associate Choral Director at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
The festival saw a spectacular range of performances including outstanding individual vocal, strings, percussion, brass and woodwind performances, as well as vibrant Junior and Senior Pop and Jazz and Ensemble performances. Congratulations to all our winners, who demonstrated immense talent and musicianship:
Junior Category:
The Jenny Sterling Prize: Sofia Okuyama
Highly Commended: Gracie Horne
3rd place: Lily Harris
2nd place: Ellie Laslop
1st Place: Helena Glover
Senior Category
Highly Commended: Octavia De Heinrich
3rd Place – Nerine Bentinck
2nd Place – Amalia De Oliveira Munoz De La Espada
1st Place – Inga de Vegvar
Well done to all our brilliant performers and thank you to our wonderful Music Department, whose unstinting dedication, passion and enthusiasm are second to none. We are looking forward to three more magical music events next week: a Senior Chamber Choir performance at Harrow School, our epic Spring Concert at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, and our annual Senior Choir Tour to Oxford.
