The Olympics Composition Challenge saw pupils writing music inspired by the Olympics held in Paris.
The Olympics can be a rich source of inspiration for a music composition, as they encompass various themes, emotions, and cultural elements.Thank you for all your entries, our Olympic champions are:
Guthrie Wheeler: The Race
Claire Kevis: Perseverance and Resilience
Fitheach Lawless: Hurdling
Three Composition Challenge
This competition saw pupils writing music inspired by the ‘odd’ number, exploring the opportunities and new direction the theme unravelled in music.
We can now announce that the THREE Inspired compositions by Amelie Waites and Clare Kevis have won in their categories
Thank you to all the participants who entered this composing and improvisation challenge, we received some brilliant ideas to musically reflect our changing seasons.
The Category Winners are:
Composing a Score
Junior Winner: Ailsa MacKinnon ( marks received 36 / 40)
Adult Winner: Clare Kevis (marks received 35 / 40)
Composing an Improvisation
Junior Winner: Guthrie Wheeler (35 / 40)
Adult Winner: Clare Kevis (29 / 40)
The recent Mars landing has been incredible to watch and has inspired us to launch a new composition competition - ‘Perseverance'
The ingenuity of the NASA team and the latest robotic technology involved will allow this rover mission to discover the hidden secrets of the red planet, which has already brought new images, videos and sounds to Earth for us. What else will they find, what will the atmosphere be like, will they find signs of life?
The theme of ‘Perseverance’ can be used in many ways for our composition competition. You could explore the 273 million mile journey of Perseverance from Earth to Mars, and describe in music, the very final stages of breaking through Mars’ atmosphere and the critical moments of landing the rover primed for exploration. Perhaps if you participated in our Moon Rabbit composition competition you can continue and develop your musical theme as you move to another planet? Or perhaps you would like to use the theme Perseverance to musically describe your experiences of living through a Pandemic and imagining the moment you experience social freedom again.