The HBS Chamber Music Programme
The HBS Chamber Music Programme offers musicians the opportunity to form trios, quartets, quintets etc. and rehearse weekly working towards performances in masterclasses with eminent professionals, concerts, festivals and competitions.
HBS students regularly take part in the Spring Grove Music Festival and the South East Schools’ Chamber Music Competition often reaching the finals concerts, performing in exciting venues, and even winning prizes.
Rock School
Expert tuition in the “art of rock” is provided by our superb tutors for students who form their own bands as singers, guitarists, bass players, drummers, keyboard players. They receive tuition sessions throughout the year in our specially equipped Bands’ Room and perform twice a year in the HBS Bands’ Nights and in other events such as Fireworks Night and the Summer Fete.
The HBS Choral Society
Henrietta Barnett Choral Society invites students, staff, parents, members and friends of all the institutions set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett in the local area to join together each year to perform a large-scale choral work, accompanied by the school orchestra.
In 2012 we celebrated the school’s centenary with a performance of Haydn’s joyous Te Deum in a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Performances over the years have included the Gloria by Vivaldi, Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, the Requiems by Mozart (2017), Brahms (2018) and Durufle (2019), and the Magnificat by Rutter (2020).
Instrumental Tuition at HBS
HBS students’ curricular experience is complemented by a wide range of instrumental tuition from highly qualified professional musicians. At HBS we offer tuition on a wide range of instruments: recorder, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, brass, violin, viola, cello, piano, guitar, drums and singing. Around 200 students take their instrumental lessons at HBS every week.
To apply for instrumental/vocal tuition, please fill in the online application form using the link below.
For further information, email [email protected].
