Spring Term Music

The first half of the spring term has been filled with music-making.

Five of our leading string players from Years 7 to 9 kickstarted this year’s music partnership programme with a visit to Holy Trinity Primary School, where they introduced their instruments and performed an extract from Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik to a captivated audience of primary school pupils.

Our accomplished musicians have also performed at lunchtime scholars’ recitals, a teatime concert, and this term’s Spring Chamber Music Concert, where highlights included our Year 9 piano trio performing the third movement of Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio in G minor, our Year 11 vocal quartet’s lively rendition of Mr Sandman, and two of our Upper Sixth students performing Rebecca Clarke’s Two Pieces for viola and cello. We wish all of our chamber groups the very best of luck as they prepare to compete in next term’s South East Schools’ Chamber Music Competition.

Meanwhile, we hosted the preliminary round of our annual singing competition, named in honour of the late Diana Kiverstein, who taught at South Hampstead for many years; many congratulations to the eighteen students who have progressed to the final which will take place after half term. Finally, we are delighted to announce that our Chamber Choir have reached the finals of both the GSA Choir of the Year and the Barnardo’s National Choir Competition, both of which will take place in early March. We wish them every success!

At the start of the academic year, South Hampstead was named as the best school in the UK for Music by The Week.