The next video from our Choral & Orchestral Concert is Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, performed by one of our Concerto Competition winners, Nirvana. A truly astonishing performance of one of the all-time great pieces for violin and orchestra.

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We're delighted to release the first video from our Choral & Orchestral Concert Blackheath Halls from last month, and what better way to start than with the 1st movt. of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. More to come next week!

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We’re delighted to share the video of our inaugural Eltham College Young Musician of the Year final from last month. The culmination of a large-scale competition, the final was a rather impressive showcase of solo performance. Watch below!

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Flowers on the Music Department can only mean one thing - Summer Term has begun! Some big performances over the coming weeks including, very excitingly, Drapers Hall and Royal Albert Hall, plus preparations for ECCO 2024. Off we go…

What a truly phenomenal concert Blackheath Halls on Saturday eve. 2 hours of full symphonic/choral repertoire, including Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending and Cecilia McDowall's Stabat Mater. Utterly sensational from our pupils - videos coming soon!

An amazing afternoon of jazz collaboration - we hosted Riverdale Country School, NY’s Big Band as the final stop on their UK tour. The afternoon finished with a joint concert, featuring each school in turn followed by two massed joint items. A very loud, and very fun, day!

A late choir rehearsal this evening, so that the pupils and the Choral Society can rehearse together before Saturday’s concert, gives time for a (curiously competitive) game of catch with this rather glorious sunset backdrop

A fun afternoon today, as we began filming for a new short film all about Music Scholarships here at Eltham; more filming sessions to come on Friday. Watch this space…!

Delighted to have these shiny new trophies arrive this morning - the LH ready for our inaugural Eltham College Young Musician of the Year final later this month, and the RH ready to be presented to our soloists at our Blackheath Halls concert next weekend…

This afternoon the Chamber Choir are at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, to sing evensong. A beautiful setting, and equally lovely acoustic - they’re sounding rather good. Service is at 6pm for anyone who can join us!

A week of national & international success last week:

1) our String Octet are through to the national final of the Pro Corda CMF Competition

2) huge congratulations to Nirvana, Y8, who has got through to the live rounds of the Balys Dvarionas Competition in Lithuania in April!

Fewer than 30 tickets remaining for our Choral & Orchestral Concert Blackheath Halls next Saturday! Do snap one up before they're gone...

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Concerts 4 & 5 in Chamber Music Week complete - Woodwind & Percussion (incl. a performance for 8 flutes plus typewriter…) and Brass. It has been a tremendous week, with 44 chamber groups/ensembles performing over four days - chamber music is alive and well at Eltham!

Chamber Music Week concerts 2 and 3 completed - yesterday evening was Strings in Chapel (including our Eltham College Junior School Harp Ensemble of 15!), and this lunchtime saw a staff concert as part of the student-run lunchtime concert series. Onto Woodwind and Percussion this evening…

A week ago we took 8 of our singers to Holy Sepulchre London, the National Musicians' Church, to sing in a special evensong to mark the 100th anniversary of OE Eric Liddell's victory at the 1924 Olympics. A wonderful service, and opportunity to sing alongside the pro choir there!

It’s Chamber Music Week here at Eltham, and kicking off proceedings was the Keyboard Department, presenting a concert of 14 piano duos and trios. Strings tomorrow in the Chapel, with Brass, Woodwind and Percussion to come later in the week…

This morning saw 3 of our chamber groups competing in the semi finals of Pro Corda CMF in Chapel - Mendelssohn’s Octet, Tailleferre’s String Quartet and an arrangement of Bach’s Ave Maria for the Junior School Harp Quintet. Some amazing playing, regardless of what happens next!