Music

Music nurtures creativity, joy and wellbeing. With the breadth of expertise from our teaching staff and the performance opportunities on offer at Haileybury, our pupils have an exceptional chance to fully realise their talent at all levels. The friendships they forge and the musical experiences they share together develop a lifelong passion for music.

_{Richard Brain Director of Music}

Haileybury is a place of unique opportunity where all talent finds both a home and a stage. Music is at the heart of the School’s community, starting with communal singing in our daily chapel services and over 600 individual musical lessons being delivered each week. Our aim is to realise the potential of all our pupils who have a passion for music and performance. Whether classical or contemporary, sacred or secular, jazz or musical theatre, there is a musical pathway for every child, with no limit to the range of choices available.

We offer pupils a range of individual musical studies across our departmental sections, including Brass, Keyboard, Percussion, Strings, Voice and Woodwind. Our teaching ethos places the interests and ambitions of the pupils at the centre of their learning, allowing them to explore repertoire they enjoy based on sound instrumental and vocal technique. A team of 29 teachers bring expertises from professional careers in the UK’s leading orchestras, choirs, opera companies, and London’s West End, as well as experience of conservatoire teaching and as solo recitalists.

Many of our pupils are also members of such national ensembles as the National Youth Orchestra, National Youth Concert Band and National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. Pupils of the appropriate ability are encouraged to attend conservatoire junior departments of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, and Guildhall. We also enjoy a very successful record of university choral scholarships.

Haileybury is pleased to offer music scholarships and exhibitions.