Forty-nine children took part in this year’s Spring Concert, meaning that we performed the event twice to enable all parents to attend. Both events were a huge success and the standard of music was excellent. Many of our solo performers took to the stage without any written music and played, from memory, confidently and beautifully. The concert opened with performances from Samba Ensemble and Orchestra. We also heard a selection of pieces performed by Miss Kerry’s violin ensemble, consisting of six Year 1 pupils demonstrating their newly learned skills.
A number of children, that learn instruments both in school and at home, then gave solo performances on a range of instruments including violin, guitar, recorder, piano. They had clearly worked very hard rehearsing at home and played beautifully. This year, we also included some classroom music in our concert. A group of children from Year 6 performed their own composition, created in curriculum music lessons, using influences from the Gamelan style of music of Indonesia. This gave a glimpse of not only the performance capabilities of the pupils, but also the creative talent that many of the children have been displaying in music lessons at Norfolk House.
Finally we heard the School Choir perform 4 pieces during the concert. They demonstrated their wonderful cohesion as a musical ensemble by singing not only unison, but in two part call and response, in three part canon, and into two part harmony. We also heard fabulous solos from Megan and Khepri in Year 6 as well as from a small group of children in Year 4.
We are delighted to have such breadth of talent at our school and to see so many pupils rise to the occasion, performing so competently. It was a thoroughly enjoyably concert.
