Results of the House Music Competition.

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2nd February 17

An abundance of extraordinarily talented musicians gathered in Centenary Hall for this year’s popular House Music competition. Overall there were 94incredible performances from the trombone to the trumpet, the Viola to the Cello, every instrument in the orchestra was represented as well as some beautiful singing and exquisite piano playing.

This year’sadjudicator was music examiner, Mr Gordon Busbridge. Mr Busbridgewas astonished by the standard of performances the children gaveand thoroughly enjoyed hearingthemthroughout the day.Everyone did incredibly well, thefull results are published below. A special mention must go to Michael Lei, aged 10 who won the Best Overall Performance with his performance of ‘Chopin, Nocturne No.2 in E Flat Major’ on the Piano and Talia Recine who won the Best Junior Musician Cup with her performances of ‘Toccatina’ on the piano, Witches’ Dance on the clarinet and ‘Perpetuo Mobile’ on the violin.

Category	Medal	Name	House
Piano Class 1	Gold	Alicia Pasetchnik	Yeaman
Piano Class 1	Silver	Ella Moody	Yeaman
Piano Class 2	Gold	Lucy Humphries	Yeaman
Piano Class 2	Silver	Connie Britton	Deacon
Piano Class 3	Gold	Silas Jack	Yeaman
Piano Class 3	Silver	Jiyoon Lee	Fortfield
Piano Class 4	Gold	Michael Lei	Oaksey
Piano Class 4	Silver	Oscar Jack	Yeaman
Strings Class 1	Gold	Hugo Brooks-Hughes (Cello)	Oaksey
Strings Class 1	Silver	Silas Jack (Violin)	Yeaman
Strings Class 2	Gold	Talia Recine (Violin)	Yeaman
Strings Class 2	Silver	Kitty Oxley (Cello)	Oaksey
Strings Class 3	Gold (shared)	Chloe Dunwell (Violin) Michael Lei (Violin)	Deacon Oaksey
Woodwind Class 1	Gold	Talia Recine (Clarinet)	Yeaman
Woodwind Class 1	Silver	Joe Stocks (Saxophone)	Yeaman
Woodwind Class 2	Gold	Hannah Porter (Flute)	Oaksey
Woodwind Class 2	Silver	Niamh Allen (Oboe) Megan John (Clarinet) Helena Montgomery (Flute)	Oaksey Deacon Oaksey
Woodwind Class 3	Gold	Oscar Jack (Clarinet)	Yeaman
Woodwind Class 3	Silver	Freddie Philip-Sorensen (Saxophone) Sebastian Till (Saxophone)	Yeaman Oaksey
Brass Class 1	Gold	Lucas Preece (Trumpet)	Oaksey
Brass Class 1	Silver	Gabi Rogers (French Horn)	Fortfield
Brass Class 2	Gold	Alastair Klemz (Trombone)	Oaksey
Brass Class 2	Silver	Lara Sharples (Baritone)	Oaksey
Class 1 Singing	Gold	Evie Schmidt-Martin	Deacon
Class 1 Singing	Silver	Imogen Bowen	Yeaman
Class 2 Singing	Gold	Katie Smart	Oaksey
Class 2 Singing	Silver	Jamie Richardson	Deacon
Class 3 Singing	Gold	Niamh Allen	Oaksey
Class 3 Singing	Silver	Alastair Klemz Cassian Pichler-Roca	Oaksey Oaksey

CUP WINNERS

CUP	Name	House
Ellis Cup for Piano	Michael Lei	Oaksey
Ellis Cup for Brass	Alastair Klemz	Oaksey
Ellis Cup for Strings	Chloe Dunwell & Michael Lei	Deacon & Oaksey
Dimmer Cup for Woodwind	Oscar Jack	Yeaman
Alcock Cup for Singing	Niamh Allen	Oaksey
Junior Music Cup (Yrs 3-5)	Talia Recine	Yeaman
All-round musician Cup	Michael Lei	Oaksey
Best overall performance Cup	Michael Lei (piano)	Oaksey

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