Performance
The school operates a large chamber orchestra, a Junior String Sinfonia and a string ensemble which develops string players. Jazz and Traditional Scottish Music feature in both specialist ensembles and in Jazz and Scottish Music Days. Students perform regularly throughout Edinburgh and beyond. In addition to internal lunchtime concerts, students perform at the Queen’s Hall, Jam House, Kirks, Cathedral and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Students also are requested to play at many civic occasions including Royalty, the Scottish Parliament and other public events such as NATO visit to Edinburgh
In addition, students regularly play in external youth orchestras such as the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, National Children’s Orchestra of Scotland, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Students also have the opportunity to form their own bands such as the contemporary folk-fusion band Kilairum.
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