Success at Chester Music Festival
Talented musicians have been praised for their performance at this year's Summer Concert.
Mr Wright, said:
The orchestra, School Choir and Community Choir performed popular film classics such as The Dambusters and Star Wars, alongside classics such as The Blue Danube, while the Jazz band played favourites such as Cantaloupe Island and Oye Commo Va?
Soloists included Shannon Yang, who played the Student Concerto by Seitz, a performance with which she had won first prize in the strings section of the Chester Festival the week before.
IB Music pupil Vincent Kohm performed the slow movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto K488 with the orchestra.
Vibrant saxophone solos from Sam Jones, Ieuan Franssens and Miles Poller highlighted the versatility of the instrument.
Pianist Kalina Tsaneva played Beethoven and the St Asaph Cathedral chorister sang Pie Jesu from the Faure Requiem.
GCSE Music student Sara Owen sang Meredith Wilson and Ben Gibson got us all clapping along to his Irish reels. AS Music students Alex Roberts and Nick Dundee performed covers of Jason Mraz and James Uings.
Congratulations to three of our talented musicians, who achieved phenomenal success at this year's Chester Music Festival.
Despite forgetting her music, Shannon Yang took first prize in the strings class, with Lia Britt Zenker taking second prize in the same discipline for her “assured and delicate” rendition of a piece by minimalist composer Einaudi.
Another musician who received high praise was Vincent Kohm, who played a prelude by Rachmaninoff, for which he was highly commended in the piano class for "understanding the darkness and drama of the peace".
Mr Wright, said: "The whole school can be proud of the achievements of these pupils, who greatly enhanced our reputation in the arts in the presence of many other young people, parents, and staff from other schools.
“The standard in the strings class was particularly high, but Shannon's excellent technique, gained by spending hundreds of hours in a practice room over the years, saw her beat the stiff competition by a comfortable margin.
“To perform as they did in such a prestigious event showed incredible poise and they are to be congratulated for their superb efforts.”
In addition to the senior school contribution, Prep pupils Rana Abou-Samra, Fflur Pierce and Caitriona Searl also gave excellent performances.