House Singing 2023 - an energetic evening of entertainment

At the end of a rather intense first half of term, we finished for Exeat with an energised and thoroughly enjoyable evening of House Singing.  

This year was adjudicated by Alex Aitken, a West End Musical Director who has worked with students of all ages both in both a choral and instrumental context, Pip Jopling who is Director of Music at Prestfelde School and is doing a fabulous job of encouraging the next cohort of young musicians and Jonathan Wysome who alongside being Head of Music at Haberdashers’ Adams is also a Musical Director for a number of theatre productions.  

Even at the end of a fairly intense term, it was applaudable to witness every house give 110% on stage in colourful and engaging performances. The house bands, this year coached by Ethan Poon, did superbly in supporting their house songs in stylish and accomplished renditions. As normal, every student at school participated in the house unison songs with a select group of between 8-14 students from each house forming the part-songs, many of which embarked on some incredibly challenging arrangements to a very commendable level. 

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The results for the competition were as follows: 

Part Song  

1st Queen Elizabeth Hall 

2nd Oldham’s 

3rd Mary Sidney Hall 

Unison  

1st Emma Darwin Hall  

2nd School House 

3rd Riggs 

Band  

1st Mary Sidney Hall  

2nd Emma Darwin Hall  

3rd Ingrams 

Most Entertaining  

1st Ridgemount  

2nd Queen Elizabeth Hall  

3rd Churchill’s 

Most Improved – Ridgemount 

Musical Leadership – Anna Mallett (EDH) & James Mackinnon (O) 

Best Arrangement – Oliver Connell (R) 

Overall 

1st Mary Sidney Hall  

2nd Emma Darwin Hall  

3rd School House  

4th Oldham’s  

5th Moser’s 

Maria McKenzie

Director of Music