Music at The Langton

Along with the four members of teaching staff, there are over 17 instrumental teachers working in the department on a weekly basis.  We feel that it is of great benefit to our students to be taught by professional performers and academics, providing them with solid role models to aspire to.  All of the teachers perform alongside the students as part of our extensive concert calendar.  We like to offer our students the opportunity to tackle challenging repertoire, including recent performances of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in Eb major and Walton’s Crown Imperial by our school orchestra, Faure’s Requiem and Horovitz’s Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo with our main school choir and a production of Oliver! with the school orchestra and all student cast.  This year we will be hosting and leading the Canterbury Festival Youth Orchestra to perform Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and Saint Saen’s Carnival of the Animals. The much-acclaimed Chamber Choir have performed in many venues around Canterbury and the South-East including evensong in Canterbury Cathedral. They recently performed as a guest choir for the Canterbury Cathedral Big Sing in collaboration with Kent Music. Many of our students further their musical studies at university and we are proud to have helped several students gain places at top institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge, Lip, ACM, BIMM and music conservatoires.

We run 14 different extra-curricular music ensembles per week during lunchtime, form times and after school. These are all free to join and are run by experts. There are groups of varying ability, so there is something for everyone. We also have practice rooms available for students to rehearse/practice before, during and after the school day. Please see the Extra-curricular attachment for more information.