A Level Music

Becoming an expert

• Performer • Composer • Analyst & Historian

A Level Music Analysis and History (40%) • The Western Classical Tradition – The symphony

in the Classical and Romantic eras • Musical Theatre • Into the Twentieth Century

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Outstanding support and resources

Creative work

Composition (25%) Performance (35%)

Composition (35%) Performance (25%)

Performance

• College accompanists (Matt, Davies, Richard Hall, Michael Jones)

• Heavily subsidised lessons – £50 per year for 30 x 20 minute lessons

• Multiple mock performances and support • Eduqas uses a visiting examiner • High quality choirs and ensembles

Composition

• Style composition • Free composition

Composition teaching

• Proper training in composition

• Regular detailed feedback

Composition Examples

Student String Quartet (pastiche Classical style)

Jazzy Grade 6 Clarinet piece Musical Theatre duet

Results on New Specification (2017 -)

KE (national average) A* 9% (4.5%)

A*-B 64% (46%) Pass 100%

Results 2013-2019

• 66% of students achieved an A* - B • 100% of students passed • On average students outperformed equivalent students

nationally by 1/3 of a grade (positive value added)

Destinations - University • Oxford & Cambridge • Southampton • Manchester • Cardiff • Birmingham • Sheffield • York • Liverpool • Durham

Destinations - Conservatoires • Royal Northern College of

Music • Royal Academy of Music • Royal Welsh School of

Music and Drama • Guildhall School of Music

and Drama • Royal Birmingham

Conservatoire • Trinity College of Music

Other subjects • Cambridge (Languages) • Birmingham (Geology, Social work, English) • UCL (Chemistry) • Oxford (Languages, Chemistry) • Southampton (Geology) • Manchester (Medicine) • Exeter (English) • Reading (Chemistry) • Durham (Combined Arts) • Cardiff (Physics and Music) • Bristol (Languages) • Teacher training (various)

Composer and Sound Designer

“your teaching was and is invaluable to my development as a professional musician”

• Theatre scores include a piece for Welsh Ballet that was performed at Sadler’s Wells • Television work includes the co-writing of the music for the BBC series Hinterland. • Won a Welsh BAFTA last year for her work on a television series.

Violinist in the RLPO

• Plays in the first violins in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

• Teaches at Manchester University and Chethams Music School

PhD Student at Cornell University

my responsibilities at Cornell include working as a teaching assistant for a range of undergraduate-level courses, and on many occasions I have found myself drawing directly on things I learned at King Eds over six years ago!

• Read Music at Southampton University • Achieved funding to study for a PhD in Musicology at Cornell University – one of the most prestigious Ivy

League institutions for music.

Choral Scholar at Cambridge

“without being involved in such a big, active and friendly music department I definitely wouldn’t have chosen to study music or apply to Cambridge”

• Came to King Ed’s with the intention of studying Biochemistry at Uni • Now an undergraduate student and Choral Scholar at Gonville and Caius

Business Strategy Consultant

“employers are always looking for rounded students who are engaged in a range of activities”

• Read French and Italian at Cambridge • Advises international businesses on strategy at OC&C

“I feel extremely lucky to have been a part of such a fantastically friendly little community”

Music Community

Enrichment

• Choir • Chamber Choir • Orchestra • String Orchestra

• Wind Band • Jazz Band • Chamber Groups and

Ensembles

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