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King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
A fantastic card from a Year 9 student inspired by the trip to hear Nigel Kennedy last month! @kes-art.bsky.social Have a fantastic summer everyone!
Well done to GuitarKEStra, Year 7&8 Guitars, Lower School Choir and King’s Brass who performed in Final Assembly 🎶
Congratulations to Ryan C (Year 8) for his performance of Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’ in Lower School Celebration
Congratulations to Chapel Choir and Middle School Choir who sang Stanford, Parry and the spiritual ‘Deep River’ in today’s Benefactors’ Service. Katie C (Year 12) performed ‘Mélodie’ by Tchaikovsky as the interlude and Mr Millington accompanied the service.
Puddings and Performance @kes-drama.bsky.social was a fantastic evening full of creativity and collaboration. Well done to everyone involved!
There are 80 students taking ABRSM music exams over the next three days. Wishing them all the very best!
Thank you to Joshua for coming into school to work with Year 7 Strings at lunchtime and well done to Chapel Choir who are working hard to prepare for Friday’s Benefactors’ Service.
Well done to Emilia P (Year 12) for her performance of Tragica by Widor in Assembly.
Thank you to all the students who helped in the Music Department at Open Morning 🎶
A wonderful Summer Recital with solos performed by some of our Leavers who have given so much to the musical life of the School during the past two or seven years. Congratulations and thank you for the resilience you have shown this week! ☀️🎶
Congratulations to the fantastic Year 12 singers of Sixth Form Choir who performed a Les Mis medley in Year 12 Assembly this morning.
We look forward to welcoming guests to this evening’s Summer Recital in the shady Guildhall Courtyard. Year 13 soloists and KERBB will perform a short concert. Thanks to Faux Pas who will be serving cool drinks from 6.10pm ☀️🎶
A memorable (and hot!) Leavers’ Service with Year 13 members of Chapel Choir. Well done to Justin for playing the musical interlude and John & Will who played the organ.
A fantastic performance of ‘Groovy Kind of Love’ from Saxophone Quartet in Assembly this morning. Tuning was spot-on and they demonstrated a great sense of ensemble 🎶
You are welcome to join us on Thursday for the End of Year Concert. Rehearsals have been going well this week and we look forward to Year 11&13 students joining us next week! 🎶 Tickets ➡️ www.kes.net/events.aspx?...
Year 10 singing the traditional song ‘My Evaline’ 🎶 directed by Freddie. For more about singing @kes-stratford.bsky.social do look at this: www.facebook.com/share/p/18Ei...
Very proud of our Year 10 students who performed at a public lunchtime concert at Holy Trinity Church. They all sang together followed by solos from Andrew, Agney, Jonah, Reggie, Junaid and Freddie.
Lots of fun preparing for Open Morning! Boomwhackers playing Pirates of the Caribbean always goes down a treat 🎶
Well done to George B (Year 12) for his performance of Autumn in New York in Assembly.
Tickets are selling well for the End of Year Concert next Thursday. Here are Orchestra rehearsing some Prokofiev. 🎶 We hope you can join us to give the Year 13 Musicians a warm send-off. Tickets ➡️ www.kes.net/events.aspx?...
An enjoyable and entertaining evening with members of Strings at Warwick Arts Centre where we heard an eclectic range of music performed by Nigel Kennedy, Peter Adams and Alec Dankworth.
Thank you to Peter, Charlie, Ronav, Robert and Leon for entertaining the guests as they arrived for the New Year 7 Parents’ Evening. Well done!
Congratulations to Ariana Pethard (OE 2021-23) who performed a wonderful Soundbite Recital at Holy Trinity Church in advance of her final recital at Oxford University. A well-crafted programme of Fauré, Poulenc, Kaprálová and Debussy.
The End of Year Concert is on Thursday 25th June at 6.30pm. You are welcome to join us to hear solos from our fantastic Year 13 leavers and performances from our senior ensembles 🎶 Tickets ➡️ www.ticketsource.com/booking/sele...
A confident performance of ‘Sultans of Swing’ by Dire Straits in Assembly this morning. Well done to Borrowed Time (Reggie, Charlie, André and Krish)!
A fantastic afternoon for our saxophonists with Jess Gillam as part of the Chipping Campden Music Festival. She performed on her soprano sax and then worked with advanced students including Nikhil (Year 10) before everyone joined in a six-part rendition of La Cumparsita. Such fun 🎷🎶!
It was so exciting to hear so many fantastic performances at tonight’s Spring Recital. Many highlights with music from Bach and Dvorak to Zimmer and Foo Fighters. Congratulations to all involved! 🎶
We have two fantastic Year 9 bands performing tonight. Hey Jude and Hotel California are sounding great! 🎸🎶