Purcell School
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| Established | 1962 |
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| Type | Independent day and boarding Specialist music school |
| Headmaster | Stephen Yeo [1] |
| Chairman | Sir Roger Jackling KCB CBE |
| Location | Aldenham Road Bushey Hertfordshire WD23 2TS England Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Local authority | Hertfordshire County Council |
| DfE number | 919/6239 |
| Students | 170~ |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 9–18 |
| Website | www.purcell-school.org/ |
The Purcell School for Young Musicians is a specialist music school for children, located in the town of Bushey, south Hertfordshire, England, and is the oldest specialist music school in the UK.[2] The school was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal in 2003, which was received on behalf of the school by Prince Charles, who is a patron of the school. Sir Simon Rattle is honorary president of the school. Many of the pupils subsequently study at Royal College of Music or Royal Academy of Music. In 2015, the School became the very first Fazioli Pianoforti Centre of Excellence.
The School‘s pupils are funded largely by the Government's Music and Dance Scheme, along with the School’s own scholarship funds. It has a consistent success in national and international competitions and has an extensive programme of outreach and community work. The majority of pupils progress to music conservatoires although a small number each year elect to go to University to study both music and non-musical subjects.
History
Rosemary Rapaport and Irene Forster founded the school in 1962 under the original name of the Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians, at Conway Hall in central London. The school later moved to Morley College, and subsequently to Hampstead, then a large Victorian house in Harrow on the Hill. The school changed its name to The Purcell School (after the English composer Henry Purcell) in 1973. In 1997, the School relocated to the site of the former Royal Caledonian School campus in Bushey, Hertfordshire.[3]
Notable former pupils
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- Martin James Bartlett, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014
- Lara Melda, BBC Young Musician of the Year, 2010
- Anne Denholm, harpist, Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales 2015
- Daisy Chute, singer with classical-pop group All Angels
- Joseph Phibbs, composer
- Jack Liebeck, violinist
- Nicholas Daniel, oboist
- Catrin Finch, harpist
- Julius Drake, pianist
- Teo Gheorghiu, pianist and actor
- Ploypailin Mahidol Jensen, pianist, a granddaughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
- Oliver Knussen, composer and conductor
- Oliver Lewis, virtuoso violinist
- Micachu, experimental pop musician
- Katharine Blake, Kelly McCusker and Jocelyn West, vocalists and founder members of the a cappella ensemble Miranda Sex Garden
- Leona Naess, singer-songwriter
- Alexander Scherbakov, concert violinist
- Yevgeny Sudbin, concert pianist
- Yiruma, South Korean pianist
- Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, Anglo-Italian pianist
References
External links
- School Website
- Profile on the ISC website
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