Jessica Hall, our adjudicator was very impressed with the standard of all the competitors and the standards they had reached. Over 60 pupils played a variety of stringed instruments from guitar to double bass during the day last Friday, which started at 9am and finished just before 6pm. The final session included non-competitive workshops with a variety of string ensembles from the year 7 string quartet through the cello octet to the senior’s performance of the First movement of Schubert’s Trout Quintet all benefiting from Miss Hall’s warm and supportive comments and advice.
Winners:
Elementary guitar: Joshua Bell
Intermediate Guitar: Alex King and Charles Tetley
Elementary Strings: Sophie Graham
Transitional Viola: Michael Chen
Transitional Cello and Double bass: Etiane Cheung
Intermediate Cello: Rayan Semnani
Intermediate Violin: Michael Chen and Brendan Bennett
Advanced Strings: Jennifer Clare
Open Class: William Emery
Cups:
Violin/Viola: William Emery
Cello/Bass: Charlie Green
