Last Updated (Monday, 19 July 2010 15:16)

Pupil's success story

Congratulations to Xavier Stavrou-Long, one of our Year 4 West Lodge pupils, for gaining a place at the Purcell School in September.

Xavier began learning French Horn with his music service teacher Julie Dysch following a Wider Opportunities recorder programme at West Lodge and has already achieved grade 3 Trinity/Guildhall with a mark of 91% after only one year !

Prior to this Xavier was already having much success with the cello (taught by Judith Lark) and has achieved grade 4 this term. Xavier is also a member of Harrow Young Musicians and currently plays cello in the Academy Strings.

Xavier will study french horn, cello and piano at Purcell School and we wish him every success!

Last Updated (Tuesday, 11 May 2010 18:05)

 Tune In - Year of Music

Tune In - Year of Music is a national project from the DCSF aiming to encourage children and young people to take part in more music-related activities. The 12-month commitment kicked off in September 2009 and has already seen participants aged from birth to 19 years old singing, playing instruments, writing lyrics and more. All this creativity aids concentration, encourages motivation and determination and builds social skills, life skills, and confidence.

And as well as throwing music open to every child and young person in England, Tune In - Year of Music aims to celebrate the musical excellence shown by many English children and young people by supporting and inspiring the very talented to continue improving.

For more details, visit the Tune In website.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 11 May 2010 17:37)

 New Guitar Ensemble

Harrow Music Service will be forming a Guitar Ensemble in September 2010. Rehearsals will take place at the Harrow Arts Centre on Tuesday evenings. If you are of school age and have been learning acoustic guitar for more than one year then you might be just what we're looking for!

We will publish more details here soon so keep watching this space!