Performance Opportunities
Performance is central to all of our courses and all students are required to give at least one solo public performance each year as a part of their annual assessment.
A regular Saturday lunchtime performance platform allows you to perform to your families, friends and teachers in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
Advanced performers are then selected to take part in our termly recitals, which are open to the public.
Concerto trials are held in November and offer one or two students the chance to perform as a soloist.
Special performance projects have included a performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and invitations to take part in the Aldeburgh and Warwick Festivals.
Choirs
Our Junior and Intermediate Choirs (Treble I & II, Alto) accept all those under 14 with unbroken voices and form an essential part of their training.
The Chamber Choir is a full four-part choir and is made up primarily of first and second study singers, although others are free to audition.
Orchestras
There are four orchestras working at different levels at the Junior Conservatoire. The String Orchestra accepts all strings players with a minimum standard of Grade III.
Entry to the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra is by audition. All the orchestras have the benefit of professional conductors as well as specialist sectional tutoring.
Woodwind students may also participate in our clarinet ensembles or flute choir.
Chamber Music
Chamber Music is an essential part of the development of a young musician and all students will be expected to take part in an ensemble during their time at the Junior Conservatoire.
Senior groups may have opportunities to perform outside the Conservatoire as well as in our own recitals.