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Senior Music Performances

Please watch the video below which showcases the brilliant musical performances from events including our Christmas Concert, Birkonian Week and Festival of Music.


 

Bands and Orchestras

There are three large Senior School ensembles:

  • Concert Band
  • Orchestra
  • Big Band

In addition, there is an award-winning Brass Ensemble which is run by the School’s visiting Brass Tutor.

Other smaller ensemble groups meet, such as the:

  • Saxophone Quartet
  • Clarinet Ensemble
  • Trombone Ensemble
  • Flute Ensembles
  • Folk Band
  • Guitar Ensemble 
  • Ukulele Club

Students who receive instrumental tuition, both within School and externally, are encouraged to join one or more groups as soon as they are able as this is an important aspect of their musical development. 

Choirs

Senior Choir

Senior Choir is a mixed voice choir that includes students and staff and membership is open to all without audition. Rehearsals take place once a week. As well as promoting the joy of singing, the mixed choir prepares a repertoire for School concerts and has also taken part in concerts in the Philharmonic Hall, both in its own right and as part of the larger chorus.

Chapel Choir

The School’s Chapel Choir is perhaps unique amongst independent day schools. Choristers perform what is essentially a cathedral repertoire. The Chapel Choir community is an enjoyable part of School life withtrips, visits and performances, where students from Prep, Seniors and the Sixth Form perform together as musical equals.
 

Music Opportunities



 

Scholarships

A limited number of Music Scholarships are available at Senior School entry level for particularly promising young musicians, and may also be awarded higher up the School.

In addition, there is an Organ Scholarship available, usually but not exclusively, at Sixth Form level. Instrumental Music Awards are also available for those students wishing to study ‘shortage’ instruments such as cello, bassoon or horn.
 

Music News

COVID-19 No Barrier to Co-Curricular Inspiration at Birkenhead School

COVID-19 No Barrier to Co-Curricular Inspiration at Birkenhead School

The start of any new academic year focuses the mind on the exciting year ahead, and this year’s planning has included facing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic head on. It has been a pleasure to welcome back all Birkenhead School children and students to the School site these last few weeks, which has once again come alive with the sound of learning within year group ‘bubbles’ 
 

Schools Concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Schools Concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Pupils from Years 3 to 6 in Prep recently had the opportunity to attend 'Our Global Vision' concert for local schools at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.  

Christmas Concert 2019

Christmas Concert 2019

The annual Christmas Concert was held on Thursday 12th December.  It was a fantastic evening that delighted everyone who attended and was a great celebration of music with performances from the whole School community.