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Music at Somervale School

Music has a unique and important part at Somervale School and is taught in a splendid purpose built Music Centre opened by Michael Eavis in July 2003. 

The Centre has two classrooms, four practice rooms and a large store. The department boasts a suite of powerful mini-Mac computers with recording and sequencing software and students are able to make sound recordings in the sound recording studio in the school¹s Media Centre.

Students are taught Music as part of the National Curriculum and there are plenty of opportunities to learn a musical instrument. We offer lessons in all instruments and in voice.
The Music Department is now a Yamaha teaching school and ninety students have keyboard and electric guitar lessons with our trained Yamaha School teacher. Anyone from the wider community is welcome to these lessons which take place after school.

The Music Department also has strong links with the renowned Wells Cathedral School where our GCSE and A level students can benefit from master classes. A recent highly successful project resulted in the production of a joint CD by the two schools.
 

There are lots of opportunities for students to perform in public ­ these include concerts, our annual carol service, the Spring Concert and numerous performances in the local community.
 

Somervale students have enjoyed a very high level of success in Music and have gone on to study at ­ amongst other places ­ the Royal Academy and Sir Paul McCartney¹s School of Music in Liverpool. A rock band from Somervale performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004.