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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

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 a and Sound D Design gner

“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.

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• Plays in the first violins in the Royal Liverpool

Philharmonic Orchestra

• Teaches at Manchester University and

Chethams Music School

PhD hD Stu tudent a at t Co Corn rnell U 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.

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“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

Busi usiness S ss Strateg egy C Consu nsultant

“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