School provides music for the young on grand scale

MORE than 150 pupils from independent schools across the North of England have attended Harrogate’s Ashville College to rehearse and perform a combined massed concert in just one day.

The students, who represented 10 leading independent junior schools, from Yorkshire and beyond, visited Harrogate to perform in the Headmasters Conference Music (HMC) Day, which is now an established annual event at Ashville College.

The young musicians, aged between eight and 11, began the day by rehearsing in their various disciplines – choir, woodwind, strings, brass and percussion – before coming to together for the performance in front of an audience of friends, family and teachers.

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Jonathan Dolman, Ashville Junior School’s headteacher, said: “We were delighted to once again be hosting the HMC Junior School Music Day. This event has now become firmly established in our diary and is one that the pupils – and teachers from all the participating schools – thoroughly look forward to.

“Again, it was a wonderful day which saw the pupils from ten different schools joining together to perform this concert.

“They work together and it brings out the very best in these talented young performers who have a genuine passion for making music.”