EXTRACURRICULAR MUSIC

About the role

We offer a wide variety of enrichment activities in collaboration with Camp Hill Girls’ School next door. Our large orchestras, bands, and ensembles are jointly organised, with main groups directed by the Heads of Music and training groups conducted by instrumental teachers. Our instrumental teachers are experts in directing smaller ensembles.

Ensembles & Groups

Three orchestras and three bands rehearse each week, alongside many choirs and chamber ensembles. Below are some of the groups meeting this academic year:

• Orchestras
  • Concert Orchestra (Grades 6+, by invitation)
  • Intermediate Orchestra (Grades 4-6, by invitation)
  • String Orchestra (Grades 1-4, by invitation)
• Wind Bands
  • Concert Band (Grades 6+, by invitation)
  • Intermediate Wind Band (Grades 4-6, by invitation)
  • Training Wind Band (Grades 1-4, by invitation)
• Choirs
  • CHB Choir (by audition)
• Musical Productions
  • Musical production (by audition)
• Jazz Groups
  • Jazz Ensemble (by invitation)
• Chamber Groups
  • Clarinet Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Electric Guitar Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Flute Choir (by invitation)
  • Flute Quartet (by invitation)
  • Junior Guitar Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Junior String Quartet (by invitation)
  • Lower String Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Oboe Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Percussion Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Saxophone Ensemble (by invitation)
  • Senior Guitar Ensemble (by invitation)
  • String Quartet (by invitation)
• Support
  • Aural and Theory Clinic (by VMT referral)
  • Coursework clinic (by request)

Enrichment Activities Outside School

• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth Orchestra
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Choirs
• City of Birmingham Choir
• Solihull Parish Church Choir
• Solihull Music Service: Orchestras, Bands, and Choir
• Redditch Music Service: Orchestras & Bands
• Sandwell Music Service: Orchestras & Bands

Concerts & Musical Events

Camp Hill has a busy concert schedule, with events held both in and out of school. Below are some of the events from recent years:

• Assembly performances
• Chamber Concert
• Christmas Concert
• Carol Service in All Saints’ Parish Church, King’s Heath
• Carols at the QE Hospital
• Concert Orchestra at Birmingham Cathedral
• Evensong at Exeter Cathedral
• Evensong at Christ’s College, Cambridge
• Foundation Ceremony
• Musical productions:
  • A Bridge Apart
  • Bugsy Malone
  • CHAOS (Camp Hill Amateur Operatic Society)
  • Les Misérables
  • Little Shop of Horrors
• Prize Giving performances
• Teatime Concert
• Senior Concert
• Summer Soirée
• Year 7 at Symphony Hall to listen to the CBSO