Music

Henrys has a vibrant, busy music department with a full programme of performances, lessons, trips, masterclasses, outreach projects, and tours. In the past year, we have put on a full production of Les misérables, performed to an audience of over 1000 in the Butterworth Hall, had four additional full school concerts, a Rock School concert, year group recitals, and chamber concerts. We have also had a visiting concert and masterclass from the Coull Quartet, given the world première of Perpetuity, a piece written for us by our Composer-in-Residence, Stephen Crewes, had a trip to see Wicked in London, competed in the Leamington Festival, and sung in Brendan Cole’s dance show at the Warwick Arts Centre. We rounded off the year with our final concert featuring two concerto performances from students, and then a trip to Prague and Dresden, during which we performed four separate concerts.

Participation in the Autumn Concert is compulsory for Year 7; they will form a choir which will rehearse during form time in the first half of the autumn term. Students already playing instruments are likely to be selected to join an ensemble and will receive information about this during the summer. Attendance at rehearsals is essential, as is communication with both the ensemble director and Mr Newton, Director of Music.

We are proud to offer all Year 7 pupils two terms of free instrumental lessons.

The Instrumental Scheme is designed to give pupils the opportunity to either play an instrument for the first time or to experience a new instrument. We offer lessons on strings (violin, viola, cello, double bass), woodwind (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon), brass (trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba) and orchestral percussion.

We have an incredible number our ensembles and groups rehearsing during the week for all instruments, levels and abilities.