Archive for the ‘The Arts’ Category
Venice trip explores the pinnacle of contemporary art
Category: News, The Arts, TripsAt the beginning of half term, 28 Sixth Form art students departed for five days in the wonderful city of Venice to explore the Venice Biennale, the 57th international art exhibition. Spread across two huge sites—the Giardini and Arsenale—comprising of several vast exhibitions and pavilions representing many countries, the Biennale is the pinnacle of the contemporary More »
Music scholars star in Britain’s top children’s orchestra
Category: Music, News, The ArtsTwo of The King’s School’s talented young music scholars performed for the National Children’s Orchestra (NCO) in Manchester’s 2,300-capacity Bridgewater Hall last month. Following a residential course in Lancashire, Tommy David (Re, Meister Omers) featured on Trombone while double bassist Theo Outram (Re, Marlowe) was chosen to accompany acclaimed young saxophonist Jess Gillam. Ms Gillam More »
King’s Week 2019 gets underway
Category: Events, News, The ArtsKing’s Week, the School’s annual celebration of music, drama, art and recreation, begins today with Music at Lunchtime in the Old Synagogue and Acoustic Corner in the Green Court Pod at 1.30pm. The Art Exhibition opens at Blackfriars, King’s Street, the Old Grange and the Lilford Gallery while Green Court will be a hub of More »
Brahms’ Requiem
Category: News, The ArtsThe King’s School performance of Brahms’ German Requiem provided the ideal demonstration of the extraordinarily high quality of musicians at the school. The King’s Symphony Orchestra and Chorus more than met the challenge of this beautiful large-scale piece, under the baton of Director of Music, Will Bersey, as a large audience in the Canterbury Cathedral More »
Drama Showcase 2019
Category: News, The ArtsDirected by the Head of Drama Rebekah Beattie and Choreographed by the Head of Dance Victoria Outram and their expert colleagues of Dance and Drama, Rebekah Frances, Fleur Mountjoy and Hollie Harris, this year’s showcase proved to be an outstanding collection of performances including Drama, Dance and Musical Theatre. We were treated to extracts from More »
The Art of Drawing
Category: News, The ArtsMembers of the King’s Society joined art historian and practising artist Gayna Pelham at the National Gallery for a masterclass entitled ‘The Art of Drawing’. Focusing on landscapes, the group studied two paintings by Dutch artists namely Meindert Hobbema’s The Avenue at Middelharnis 1689 and Philips Koninck’s An Extensive Landscape with a Road and a River More »
London Autumn Concert
Category: News, The ArtsThe Crypt Choir and Chamber Orchestra’s return to St Alfege Church, Greenwich was an enormous success, with a large and appreciative audience enjoying a programme of Wagner, Grieg and Bruckner. Under the direction of Mr Andy Pollock, the Chamber Orchestra took on the technically demanding Wagner Prelude to Lohengrin, capturing the serene opening with great More »
Sixth Form visit to see the Pala Pesaro, Venice
Category: News, The Arts6b Art Historians visited Venice in March as part of their Pre-U course, exploring its vibrant and suggestive city spaces, encountering its eclectic architecture and engaging with a range of sculpture and painting from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. In the Doge’s Palace, a monographic exhibition on John Ruskin, Victorian theoretician, aesthete, water colourist More »
Knighthood for OKS Sir Michael Morpurgo
Category: Events, News, The ArtsWar Horse author Sir Michael Morpurgo OKS has received a knighthood. Morpurgo, 74, joked that Joey, the equine hero of his 1982 children’s book, which became a hit international play, should be receiving the honour. “It’s Sir Joey really, not Sir Michael,” said the writer. Morpurgo, who has previously received an OBE, said the Queen had seen the stage version and “loved More »
Solo Art Exhibition: ‘Adorned and Uncovered’
Category: News, The ArtsMaddie Reeves (6a, Walpole House) opened the first solo art exhibition ‘Adorned and Uncovered’ this week on Monday 12th March in the corridor space outside of Chums (the new Pupil Social Centre). This impressive body of work explores the physicality of the female nude through a series of large-scale acrylic paintings and body prints celebrating both flesh and form. Drawing inspiration from Yves Klein’s Anthropometry paintings and traditional More »