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14 April 2018 Abingdon Music Fitzroy Quartet Masterclass Around 200 boys entertained an appreciative audience in the Amey Theatre for the New Year Charity Concert. All four of the School’s bands, a Jazz ensemble, the entire Second Year in a choir and our two orchestras played a wide range of music. The benefiting charity was Home Start Oxford which offers support to local families facing challenging circumstances. The Annual Chamber Evening presented an impressive cross-section of chamber music from a number of different ensembles – woodwind, brass, strings and piano, and frommusicians in all seven year groups of the school. Chapel Choir sing Choral Evensong at Dorchester Abbey Singers’ Platform This year the Singers’ Platform focused on the work of seven of Abingdon’s talented singers aged between 13 and 18. The students presented a range of repertoire from the 16th to 21st centuries with Andrew Yeats, the School’s singing teacher, accompanying and directing from the piano. Intermediate Solo Instrumental Competition The competition showcased the talents of 8 of the school’s intermediate musicians and was of a phenomenally high standard, impressing adjudicator, Dr Tom Edwards, Director of Music at Rendcomb College. 1st place and the winner’s cup went to pianist Tong Tong for his lovely playing of Chopin, joint second place to cellist, Hugo Payton and violist, Fergal Marsh, and third to oboist, Oliver Glover. New Year Charity Concert It was a pleasure to welcome back Ben Schoeman to coach our senior pianists. Having listened to and advised the students individually, Ben gave an inspiring performance of Sibelius’ Romance. Prize-winning Concert Pianist Members of the young award-winning Fitzroy String Quartet coached some of the School’s chamber groups – quartets, quintets and cello and clarinet ensembles, before giving a concert in the Amey Theatre.