CO-CURRICULAR MUSIC
CO-CURRICULAR MUSIC
Music at Sevenoaks School is housed in the school’ s magnificent performing arts centre, The Space. This boasts a 400-seat concert hall, the Pamoja Hall, as well as a Recital Room. The school organises and hosts a range of classical, jazz and popular concerts, including school concerts, professional orchestra and choir performances, and events entirely organised and performed by students.
About 700 instrumental music lessons take place each week. There is a flourishing Symphony Orchestra of over 80 students. Recent performances have included Symphony no 1 in D minor by Christian Sinding and Symphony no 5 in C minor by Beethoven.
There is a Choral Society of over 100 which has performed works such as Handel’ s Messiah and Mozart’ s Requiem. For those musicians who wish to enjoy the more intimate art of chamber music, we have a thriving programme and the school has enjoyed much success in the national Pro Corda Festival.
For many, the highlights are concerts which focus on the jazz, rock and pop music at Sevenoaks School. The school has several jazz bands, around which the concerts are built, and also a popular music choir, Chorus, which when it was formerly known as the Gospel Choir, performed in Berlin’ s famous Philharmonie concert hall.
There are also several independently formed rock groups who populate the school’ s charity concerts and raise a large amount of money for Sixth Form projects every year.
There are also opportunities to perform avantgarde and other modern styles.
‘ The opportunities to play music at the school have been mind-blowing – everything from jazz to classical and rock to pop is played here’
Sevenoaks student
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