Music News

Millfield’s first evening concert in the Johnson Hall brought us The Open Musicians’ Platform to kick start the academic year. This concert is made for our intermediate students, between grades four to seven where we saw a great range of repertoire from various genres and instrumentation take stage, as well as some students performing for the first time in front of a socially distanced audience, as well as viewers at home via the live stream on Millfield’s Senior School YouTube Channel.

Last week, Millfield Prep hosted the first Cushion Concert of the year via YouTube Premiere.

Every year, pupils in Year 4 are lucky enough to learn an orchestral instrument as part of the Millfield Prep Orchestral Project.

Three Millfield music scholars have received confirmed offers to study Music at the University of Manchester, one of the top UK universities for music. Music scholars Rowan Wilson from North Wootton, Harvey Morland from Ashcott and Cameron Murray from London have all received offers to study Music at University of Manchester in September 2020.

Millfield students are celebrating their achievements today following an extraordinary year with no public summer exams.

Despite the difficulties with A level results this year, it has been fantastic to see Millfield students’ achievements and we are thrilled to finish with 42% of grades at A* or A and 73% of all A levels graded at a B or higher.

Millfield students and staff celebrated the School’s second annual Identity and Inclusion Week online as part of its Pastoral programme during the month of June. 

Lockdown has not quelled the Millfield spirit, with the annual celebration of our Upper Sixth Media students’ fabulous work hosted virtually at the end of June as part of a YouTube premiere.

Millfield’s premiere chamber choir, Camerata, joined together with talented musicians from Somerset Sinfonia to pay tribute to key workers during the coronavirus outbreak with a heart-warming rendition of Tim Rice and Elton John’s Lion King classic ‘Can You Feel the Love Tonight’.