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Music

Hamilton. Photo by Danny Kaan.

Last Monday a group of sixty boys went to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre to watch Hamilton, the American theatrical phenomenon that is currently in Edinburgh as part of its first ever UK tour.

4th form glaciation trip

The 4th form boys boys travelled to Grey Mair's Tail in the Southern Uplands. It is one of the most spectacular landmarks in Southern Scotland with the waterfall, one of the UK’s highest, plunging 60m down into the Moffat Water Valley.

pupil playing the flute in Memorial Hall

The School has a strong tradition of choral music, with 80 boys as members of our Chapel Choir.

The Chapel Choir and Close Harmony Group perform regularly at School Chapel, and at School occasions. Major concerts are given each term both in the School, which has a purpose-built Music School, and at other venues in and around Edinburgh. Nearly, half the School learns an instrument.

Instrumental tuition is available on a wide range of instruments. Instrumental lessons generally take place within the academic teaching day, but are rotated each week to ensure that no particular class lesson is missed frequently. For Sixth Formers, every effort is made to timetable instrumental lessons during private study periods or free time, and for younger pupils, every effort is made to avoid clashes with ‘problem’ subjects. Ample opportunity is given for pupils to give solo performances in the School’s instrumental concerts.