Yehudi Menuhin School
Established | 1963 |
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Type |
Private day and boarding school Music school |
President | Daniel Barenboim |
Headteacher | Richard Hillier |
Founder | Yehudi Menuhin |
Location |
Stoke d'Abernon Cobham Surrey KT11 3QQ England Coordinates: 51°18′23″N 0°22′36″W / 51.30641°N 0.37666°W |
DfE URN | 125428 Tables |
Students | 80 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Ages | 7–19 |
Houses | Harris House, Music House, White House and Middle Block |
Website |
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The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin.[1] The school is one of the six established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, Derby School of Music, Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh.
The school aims to give pupils the best musical education possible, with internationally renowned teachers including Natalya Boyarskaya and Ruth Nye. The current Director of Music is Malcolm Singer who is due to retire in July 2017..
Notable former pupils
- Levine Andrade
- Nicola Benedetti[2]
- Halli Cauthery
- Bobby Chen
- Beverley Davison
- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
- Tasya Hodges
- Timur Ibragimov
- Alina Ibragimova[3]
- Aleksey Igudesman
- Richard Joo
- Nigel Kennedy[4]
- Tasmin Little[5]
- Jacob Shaw
- Wu Qian
- Alexander Sitkovetsky
- Valeriy Sokolov
- Kathryn Stott[6]
- Marius Stravinsky
References
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/28/childprotection.schools
- ↑ http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/new-headmaster-yehudi-menuhin-school-4818556
- ↑ http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/leisure/stage/11863599.Pupils_of_The_Yehudi_Menuhin_School_set_to_wow_audience_in_Bridport/
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/28/childprotection.schools
- ↑ http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/new-headmaster-yehudi-menuhin-school-4818556
- ↑ http://www.bridportnews.co.uk/leisure/stage/11863599.Pupils_of_The_Yehudi_Menuhin_School_set_to_wow_audience_in_Bridport/
External links
- Official website
- Profile on the ISC website
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