KES Music

Congratulations! 🥳

Middle School and Sixth Form Choirs in rehearsal

Rehearsals are well under way for tonight’s Gaia Concert. KES Sounds and Concert Band are sounding fantastic!

Looking forward to a fantastic day today. Off to see our netballers in the national finals at Loughborough University and then back for the Gala Concert with the final of the House Music Competition. Good luck to everyone involved!

There are very few remaining tickets for this evening’s Gala Concert. Last chance to snap them up for what promises to be an entertaining evening! We hope to see you there! 🎶

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A beautiful morning for Chapel Choir to sing ‘Locus Iste’ by Bruckner during the Year 12 Chapel Service.

A wonderful Thursday evening awaits with the Gala Concert. @fauxpaskes.bsky.social has the bar ready with drinks, snacks and samosas. We look forward to another great evening of music.

Year 9 GCSE Music students enjoyed some outdoor singing this morning while they rehearsed ’My Evaline’ for Thursday’s Gala Concert. Do come and hear them and the other members of Middle School Choir singing this barbershop classic.
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A great performance in Assembly of the ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ theme by King’s Brass!

Lower School Choir sang incredibly well this morning! They are preparing Piping Down the Valleys Wild for the Year 7 Concert (23rd April) with fantastic piano accompaniment by Emma Pang in Year 12 🎶

Brilliant Sixth Form Choir rehearsal this morning! They are sounding fantastic singing in six parts! Do come and support them at next Thursday’s Gala Concert. Tickets ➡️ www.kes.net/events.aspx?...

Part of Spender’s winning performance of Rasputin by Boney M, arranged by Dan Lourenco 🎤 🎹 🎻 🥁

An enjoyable Big House Sing this morning! Well done to all who took part. Spender were chosen as the winners with Dyson in second place.

Piano Trio working hard on a Beethoven trio to perform at next Thursday’s Gala Concert. Do come and hear! Tickets ➡️ www.kes.net/events.aspx?...

The category winners of the Senior House Music Competition are Dan Harrison (Saxophone), Joshua Tan (Violin), Mattie Packwood (Voice), George Booth (Trombone) and Justin Karki (Piano)👏
Hear them perform at the Gala
Concert on Thursday 12th March 🎶
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Congratulations to John Smyth, Will Bosson and Nicolas McNab who performed in an organ recital at the United Reformed Church in Stratford at lunchtime today. Thanks to Mr Millington for organising this opportunity for them.

With thanks to Peter Adams for his adjudication of the Junior House Music Competition. Congratulations to Ahon who was chosen as Junior Musician of the Year 2026 with his performance of Perfect by Ed Sheeran.

A fantastic Junior House Music Competition this morning with great performances from all students. Our adjudicator, Peter Adams, listened to the five category finalists during lunchtime and gave feedback to Liam (Piano), Lucas (Bassoon), Ahon (Voice), Grzegorz (Drum kit) and Ilyas (Violin).

Gala Concert: Thursday 12th March at 6.30pm in the Levi Fox Hall.
You are welcome to join us!
🎶 Senior ensembles and House Music Competition finalists will provide some quality music for your entertainment.
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With thanks to our wonderful audience for their support last night. Ronan sang ‘Everybody Needs Somebody’ as an encore.
You can hear KERBB perform again at the Gala Concert on 12th March.

‘Uptown Funk’ has been a KERBB favourite for many years! This time with Harshu singing.

After delicious fish & chips at the intervals (thanks to Prefects for their help!) KERBB performed an extended set. Here’s Izzy singing ‘Misty’

This was impressive from Reggie, André, Krish (Year 10) and Charlie (Year 9)

Some great audience interaction with the Year 9 Band performing ‘Superstition’!

Gregorio is our Jazz Captain. He did a brilliant job as compere in the first half. Here is his duet with Theo.

A few of the many highlights from Jazz Night to follow. Jazzsquad!’s opening number - what a great sound from these Year 9&10 musicians!

A fabulous evening’s entertainment at Jazz Night! Congratulations to all our superb musicians 🎺🎸🎤 🎹 🥁 Thank you to everyone who helped behind the scenes to make it such a success. We are grateful for support from @fauxpaskes.bsky.social It was brilliant to have Mr Riley & Mr Stoneman with us 🎶😎

Jazz Night 2026 has begun with Jazzsquad! performing Chameleon 🎶😎

Although it’s too late to book food, there are still tickets available for tomorrow’s Jazz Night. Come and join over 200 other audience members and enjoy music by KERBB, Jazzsquad!, Sax Quartet, bands, soloists and more! 🎺🎸🎤😎🎶
Book here before 1pm on Friday: www.ticketsource.co.uk/kes

Some very positive feedback from audience members at the Holy Trinity Soundbite Concert about the performances by our Sixth Form students today. Well done to Dan, Katie, Molly, Phoebe and Justin!