Choosing a Music Teacher
Finding the right music teacher for your child can be a difficult decision, whether you’re hoping to get started on your first ever instrument or to take your playing to...
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PhD research grant for Chetham’s Head of Sixth Form Academic Music
Sarah Oliver, Head of Sixth Form Academic Music at Chetham’s, has received a prestigious Musica Britannica Trust Research Award towards her work examining music and culture of the 13th century, when...
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Paris in the Spring
This song title isn’t strictly appropriate, as the biennial Sixth Form French pilgrimage to our spiritual home actually took place in mid-February. But the weather gods were so provident that...
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A celebration of friendship for Chetham’s Spring Music
Spring Music week is always an exciting time of year. As the new season dawns, students lay aside their text books and spend a week in rehearsals with our various...
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Chetham’s 50th Anniversary year begins!
A year of events to mark Chetham’s 50th Anniversary year is already underway, launched by Chetham’s students, staff and parents, past and present, and continuing with the first of fifty...
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Better boarding for Chetham’s boys
We’ve been all too conscious for a while now that the accommodation for our senior boys, in the top floors of the Millgate Building, needs extensive improvements to meet the...
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Chetham’s appoints Tom Redmond as Director of Music from 2019
Chetham’s is delighted to announce that Tom Redmond will succeed Stephen Threlfall as Director of Music from September 2019. After meeting a diverse range of candidates from a strong field,...
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A 100 year old story: War Horse review
This weekend Chetham’s students are helping to mark the Armistice in school and across the region. Young brass players performed at Victoria Station; violinist Faye Lam played Vaughan Williams’ The...
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More than a Youth Orchestra: Chetham’s Autumn Music
Three times each year, academic teaching comes to a halt and Chetham’s devotes itself to performance, with a week of rehearsals, concerts and youth music involving students from primary school...
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Woodwind Department collaboration with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
In late September staff, students and an alumnus from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland visited Chetham’s. We were thrilled to be joined by internationally renowned woodwind professionals and RCS lecturers,...
