Summer Term 2022 - Music News (1)

The first half of the Summer Term has seen our musicians back with a vengeance performing in 11 performances and workshops, starting in the second week of term with a joint Evensong for Chamber Choir in Portsmouth Cathedral with the Cathedral Girls’ Choir. Our boy and girl choristers took part in our partnership collaboration with Cathedral Sing! on the Isle of Wight, working with over 100 primary schools developing their singing skills and performing in a concert with them.

Music Week in the Junior School at the start of May is always hugely enjoyable. We were delighted to be able to support this with a large number of our senior musicians performing to the Juniors as soloists and ensembles and talking with them about their music and their instruments. There were solos performances by cellists and singers and ensemble performances by the Percussion Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Choir, Concert Band and Brass Sextet

On 24 May we were delighted to host the Cathedral Organists’ Association for a session on boys’ changing voices as part of their conference held at Portsmouth Cathedral. Our newly formed Changing Voices group is designed as an ensemble that the boys at PGS can join when their voices start to change from treble pitch. The Music Department led a workshop looking at how to manage this transition within a cathedral choir and a school setting with demonstrations and performance from 7 of our pupils. The boys were also able to talk about how they felt about their voice changing and how their choir directors and music teachers could best support them during this potentially unsettling time.