Huge congratulations to Year 12 GCSE music student Tom McVeigh who was recently Highly Commended in a young composers competition organised by EPTA. This was open to the whole of the UK and is the first time that any Aquinas student has entered it.

 

2015 EPTA UK Composers’ Competition Results – adjudicator Pamela Wedgwood

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1st  Prize and Overall Winner Seamus Heath. Name of composition – Prelude. Teacher – Purcell School

Joint 2nd  Prize Theodore May. Name of composition – Fractal Structures. Teacher – Purcell School

Joint 2nd  Prize Gabriele Bekeryte. Name of composition – Walking by Nemunas River. Teacher – Purcell School

Joint 3rd Prize Songeun Choi. Name of composition – Les Saisons. Teacher – Purcell School

Joint 3rd Prize Lauren Marshall. Name of composition – Constellations, Signs and Wonder. Teacher – Purcell Sch.

Highly Commended Tom McVeigh.  Name of composition – Summer Storm. Teacher – Ms Joanna Gould

Highly Commended Francesca Miller.  Name of composition – The River’s Journey. Teacher – Clare Wilding

Highly Commended Leah Park. Name of composition – Modular Light. Teacher – Purcell School