Foundation Magazine 2021-2022 | Mount Kelly
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PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS<br />
MUSIC AT<br />
THE COLLEGE<br />
CHAMBER CHOIR PERFORM<br />
AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL,<br />
LONDON<br />
<strong>Mount</strong> <strong>Kelly</strong> Chamber Choir were the<br />
School Choir of the Year from 2019<br />
till <strong>2021</strong> and part of their prize was to<br />
take part in a fundraising concert for<br />
Barnardo’s in November <strong>2021</strong> at the<br />
Royal Albert Hall. We were fortunate<br />
enough to be sharing the stage with<br />
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,<br />
conducted by their Artistic Director Ben<br />
Pope as well as over six hundred primary<br />
school children from the London area for<br />
a wonderful programme of film music.<br />
Chamber Choir sang one of their favourite<br />
items: Eatnemen vuelie by Frode Fjellheim<br />
with specially written accompaniment<br />
played by the RPO.<br />
To perform in such an enormous and<br />
iconic venue was the experience of a<br />
lifetime for our young singers and we<br />
were delighted that so many recent<br />
leavers came along to swell the ranks of<br />
the choir.<br />
CHARITY CABARET CONCERT<br />
In what has become a regular fixture of<br />
the concert programme, March saw<br />
the Charity Cabaret Concert with three<br />
stages featuring a professional jazz<br />
quartet led by <strong>Mount</strong> <strong>Kelly</strong> brass teacher<br />
Sam Massey, pupil singer songwriters<br />
performing their own material and the<br />
College Little Big Band playing jazz<br />
standards and other familiar tunes. The<br />
whole evening was a resounding success<br />
and an substantial donation was made to<br />
the Tavistock Memory Café, the school<br />
charity for <strong>2021</strong>-22.<br />
CHAMBER CHOIR AT<br />
CALSTOCK ARTS CENTRE<br />
The end of the school year for the<br />
Chamber Choir always revolves around<br />
the now traditional concert at Calstock<br />
Arts Centre in the picturesque riverside<br />
twon of Calstock. This breathtaking<br />
venue is a converted chapel which sits<br />
overlooking the river Tamar and behind<br />
the performers is an enormous window<br />
offering amazing views over the river back<br />
to Devon. As well as being a musical<br />
highlight of the year, this event is also an<br />
opportunity to say goodbye to all those<br />
pupils who are leaving the school and the<br />
choir. An emotional occasion, but a joyful<br />
opportunity look back on concerts, tours<br />
and experiences from the last few years.<br />
PERFORMING & CREATIVE ARTS<br />
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