Purcell School

Purcell School

Infobox UK school
name = Purcell School


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latitude = 51.66083
longitude = -0.367248
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established = 1962
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type = Independent School
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president =
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head = A. Peter Crook MA BMus FRSA ARAM ARCO PGCE
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chair_label = Chairman
chair = Graham Smallbone MA ARCO ARCM FRSA
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specialist = Music College
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street = Aldenham Road
city = Bushey
county = Hertfordshire
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = WD23 2TS
phone = 01923 331100
fax = 01923 331166
LEA = Hertfordshire County Council
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gender = Mixed
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.purcell-school.org/
website_name = www.purcell-school.org/The Purcell School is a specialist music school for school-age children, located in Hertfordshire, England, and the oldest specialist music school in the UK. [cite journal | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4666(199404)135%3A1814%3C247%3ASOITVO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E | last=Murray | first=Nigel, and Cox, Neil | title=States of Independence | journal=The Musical Times | volume=135 | issue=1814 | pages=247-248 | date=April 1994 | accessdate=2008-07-27] The school was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Medal in 2003. The award was received by Prince Charles, who is a patron of the school. Sir Simon Rattle is honorary president of the school.

History

Rosemary Rapaport and Irene Forster founded the school in 1962 under the original name of the Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians, at Conway Hall. The school later moved to Morley College, and subsequently to Hampstead. The school changed its name to the Purcell School in 1973. In 1975, the school moved to Harrow, before settling at its current location on the former Royal Caledonian School campus in Bushey. [cite news | author=Margaret Campbell | title=Obituary: Rosemary Rapaport | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010627/ai_n14399210 | work=The Independent | date=27 June 2001 | accessdate=2008-07-27]

Notable alumni

*Daisy Chute, singer with classical-pop group All Angels
*Ploypailin Mahidol Jensen, Thai princess and pianist
*Micachu, experimental pop musician
*David Murphy, conductor
*Leona Naess, singer-songwriter
*Yevgeny Sudbin, concert pianist

References


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