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Music in Full Swing!
The Ash Manor music department closed last half term with its first House Open Mic of the year. Students from across all years showcased the repertoire they have been working on with their instrumental teachers, fellow musicians and peers from a huge range of our Music extra-curricular bands and ensembles.
The evening opened with a teaser for the Christmas concert by the AMS Big Band and closed with a wonderful ensemble duet by two of our year 11 students. We can't wait to share more performances with you as we progress through the year. Mrs McGill captured some wonderful shots of our performers in action. What a brilliant showcase for Ash Manor talent it was!
The Music department have been incredibly busy since September. Organisation and rehearsals are well underway for a busy year ahead, including the upcoming Christmas concert (Thursday 17th December), G-live performance in the Spring and the 2027 Paris Music Tour for Challenge Week in the summer.
If you would like to find out more about joining one of our ensembles or receiving instrumental tuition, please speak to Mr Carter or Mr Lankshear.
A wonderful Year 10 solo performance of Adele's 'Easy On'
Year 10 GCSE solo performance recital
Year 7 duet (their first ever live performance ever as AMS students!)
A haunting Year 10 recital of Radio Head’s ‘Fake Plastic Trees’
Year 9's first ever band performance in the AMS theatre. A rocking version of Red Hot Chill Peppers’ 'Under the Bridge'
Some more from our Year 9 students performing 'Under the Bridge' 1
A beautiful closing number from our year 11s: ‘Requiem’ from the musical ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
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