Performances
Gala Concert - 18 March 2024
The Gala Concert Programme can be viewed below.
There are video recordings of each of the items beneath this.
Sinfonietta - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Middle School Brass - Yellow Bird (trad) & Gonna Fly Now (Conti)
Symphony Orchestra - 3 spanish Dances (Mozkowski)
PGS Brass - Liberty Bell (Sousa), Sarabande (Handel), Carnival of Venice (Staigers) & William Tell (Rossini)
Concertband - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (Kamen) & Iberian Escapades (Sheldon)
Chamber Choir & Community Choir - Gloria (Vivaldi)
Spring Concert - 13 March 2024
The Spring Concert Programme can be viewed below. There are video recordings of each of the items beneath this.
Jazz Ensemble
Jazz Collective
Fast Track Band
Students' Collective
Las Colitas
Morning After
Harbour
Autonomous State
Lazybones
Bone Idle
Big Band
Gala Concert - 29 March 2022
Sinfonietta Strings, Sinfonietta Wind, Middle School Brass, Sinfonietta Full Orchestra
The Steep & Rugged Pathway,
James Bond Theme,
The Final Countdown,
Havana
Percussion Ensemble
Baiao
PGS Brass
Blaze Away,
Light Cavalry Overture,
Sweet Caroline.
Concert Band
Uptown Funk,
Defying Gravity,
How to Train Your Dragon,
Happy.
Symphony Orchestra
Haydn, Symphony 104
Movements 3 & 1
Chamber Choir & Community Choir
A Little Jazz Mass:
Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Gloria
Chamber Choir
Requiem (The Clouds) - Benedict Blythe
(world premiere)
Gala Concert - March 2021
We are delighted to share with you some of the work our ensembles and solo performers have been working on in the last three weeks of term. Happy Easter to you all!
Golden Lion (Sixth Form Band) perform Pink Floyd's Comfortable Numb
Recorded in February/March 2021
Golden Lion (Sixth Form Band) perform Toto's Hold the Line
Recorded in February/March 2021
Guitar Teatime Concert
Do listen to our termly informal concert by some of our guitar pupils recorded this term from their homes.
Spring Unsprung 2021 - Weds 10 March 1900
Join the LIVE YOUTUBE stream of our Spring Concert, featuring performances recorded in lockdown by some of our brass, rock and jazz groups and soloists.
Donations welcome as part of PGS Giving Day, raising money to support bursaries for pupils to attend PGS. https://givingday.pgs.or.uk/
Live stream starts at 1900.
Programme available CLICK HERE
House Music @ Home
The YouTube live stream of this year's exciting concert is still available. Don't miss out on this hugely impressive evening of music making from all our House Music teams. Each house put togther their own 20 minute mini-concerts featuring solo, instrumental ensemble and vocal ensembles. In a very close contest our adjudicator, Anna Lapwood, crowned Smith & Hawkey as winnners and gave our performers excellent advice and feedback.
The programme for the event is available HERE
Full results availabe HERE
PGS Christmas Concert
We hugely missed our Christmas Concert celebration as a PGS family in the Cathedral this year. We have, however, collected some performances from a number of our ensembles and are delighted to share them with you here.
Thank you to all the pupils for their hard work this term and for continuing to make music creatively and maturely in a different way to usual. Thank you also to all our Music Department staff for their support and dedication in putting these performances together and maintaining their usual high standard of 1-1 teaching this term, and to our team of Gappers for their superb support of Chamber Choir this term.
We wish you and your families a peaceful and restful Christmas.
Middle and Upper School Recital
Performances by musicians mainly years 7-9.
Look out for some more performances to follow shortly!
Miss Kingsley - Lunchtime Live!
Our very own Head of Keyboard, Miss Kingsley, gave a fabulous lunchtime recital on 26 November at Portsmouth Cathedral of Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Please enjoy this on the Portsmouth Cathedral Facebook page!
Remembrance 2020
We would usually have been performing our annual Remembrance Concert with the LMP at this time; this is the first year since 1998 that we have been unable to do so.
We were, at least, able to record a small number of our singers and instrumentalists in the cathedral performing Peter Aston's beautiful setting of So They Gave Their Bodies to the Commonwealth.
The words of Pericles' Funeral Oration set to music by Peter Aston, arranged for chamber ensemble by Gareth Hemmings.
Year 7 & Year 11 Bands
Performing in our Open Mic Night:
It Must Be Love!
Staff and pupils join remotely to perform together! We have missed you all more than half as much as we have!
PGS Junior Brass perform Baggy Trousers.
The brass players in the Juniors have continued to work hard during lockdown - here are their baggy trousers - it's all madness!
Musical Theatre Evening
If you missed our Live Streaming of our Musical Theatre Evening on the School YouTube Channel you can still catch it here!
The performances featured songs from well-known shows performed by pupils from their own homes.
PGS-LMP Remembrance Highlights
To Parents, Carers and all at Portsmouth Grammar School.
Having to face a situation where concerts halls have shut their doors and we are all confined to the four walls of our houses, it is a wonderful opportunity to find ways to keep connected and enjoy music together. I am delighted that recordings of previous PGS/LMP Remembrance concerts can be shared online, so you can enjoy at home, the wonderful relationship and music-making that has grown between PGS and the LMP over the years.
We would also like to share with you "At home with LMP”, an offering of virtual performances, both live-streamed and recorded for each day of the week with something for everyone, you can access it through the LMP website.
As you can imagine, the LMP has been very hard hit by the Coronavirus and we have had all concerts recordings, education and community work cancelled into July and beyond. The LMP musicians have absolutely no income for the foreseeable months. If having watched the online content, you feel moved to make a donation to the LMP players in these difficult times, please go to the LMP website www.londonmozartplayers.com and use the donate facility.
We look forward to November and the joy of resuming out relationship and music-making together.
Julia
Executive Director, London Mozart Players
Join us with your family at our Passiontide Service for the end of the Spring Term 2020, with messages from our Chaplain, Rev Hunt and our Head, Dr Cotton. Performances from Chamber Choir and the chance to join in with a hymn will bring the service into your living rooms!