Primary Course

On the PRIMARY courses the coaching sessions are slightly longer to enable increasingly advanced works to be studied.

In chamber music coaching sessions two works are studied and performed.

Musicianship classes cover a variety of topics including History, Composition, Improvisation, Form and Performance Exercises.

Dalcroze Eurhythmics addresses musicianship through a holistic approach engaging the whole body through movement.

Choral Singing (Preparatory and Primary) provides natural aural training for young musicians. Works are prepared and performed on each course.

In Orchestra students learn the disciplines of rehearsing and performing as members of a larger string group.

Each course ends with an Open Day of workshops and concerts, and on summer courses there is a Cream Tea Concert. All students perform in at least one concert

Course Director

Maureen Parrington

Maureen Parrington won a scholarship to study piano and violin at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Roberts and Frances Mason She participated in Master Classes given by Paul Tortelier; Igor Ozim and Arthur Balsam. She was an official accompanist for the R.C.M. Junior Dept. for nine years and works as a free-lance pianist, accompanying string players and playing Chamber music. She was a member of the Snape Maltings Chamber Orchestra and toured with “London Contemporary Dance” for a number of years. She is a Course Director at "Pro Corda" (The National School for Young Chamber Music Players), devising and running courses for young string players and pianists. She has been on the staff of the “National Youth Strings Academy” since it started in 1995 and also teaches at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School for Boys in Elstree.

Maureen Parrington

Sample Repertoire

Fischer

Gurlitt

Haydn

Klengel

Mazas

Mozart

Nardini

Pleyel

Quartermain

Shield

Soos

Summers

Wesley

Tafelmusik

Piano Trio in C Major

String Quartets: 0p 1 Nos 1,2 and 4: Op 2 No 5: Op 17 No 6
Piano Trio in G Major “Gypsy Rondo”
Twelve German Dances

Piano Trio Op 35 No 2
Piano Trio Op 39 No 1

String Quartet in D major

String Quartets: K80: K155-157: K170

String Quartet No 5

String Quartet in E minor

Adagio for Piano Trio

String Quartet Op3 No 2

European Children Songs

Folk Song Suite

String Quartet in D Major

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