Haberdashers’ Adams wins the Habs Young Musician of the Year competition for the first time.
The annual competition, now in its sixth year, is part of the Haberdashers’ Advantage Character programme, that seeks to build a sense of community between pupils across the seventeen Haberdasher schools in England.
Each secondary Haberdasher school is invited to send one competitor to perform at the Haberdashers’ Hall in London. The nine competitors delighted the judges and audience with a diverse, range of performances on clarinet, violin, piano, cello and vocals. This year’s competition was judged by singer Alessandro Fisher, cellist Adrian Bradbury and pianist Catherine Milledge.
Congratulations to Arjun Toora in Upper Sixth at Haberdashers’ Adams. He performed Liebestraume by Liszt beautifully on the Hall’s grand piano to win the competition.
Arjun is a multi-faceted musician. He is currently working towards his piano diploma but is also grade 8 on the cello and a highly capable trumpeter, organist, accordionist, flautist and French horn player. He regularly conducts the City of Wolverhampton Choir and the school orchestra. Arjun has also played leading roles in Adams’ musical theatre productions, such as Javert in last summer’s production of Les Misérables. Arjun manages to juggle all these activities with being one of two school captains.
Taking A-levels in Economics, English, Maths and Music, Arjun has been offered a place to study Music at the University of Cambridge and plans to follow this with a law conversion course. We wish him all the best.
Haberdashers’ Adams provides a broad, high quality and innovative range of music making opportunities for all pupils. Specifically, we promote inclusivity through the Key Stage 3 instrumental programme, where all pupils experience learning a musical instrument during curriculum music lessons in Years 7 and 8. We provide opportunities for pupils to continue to study music to both GCSE and A-level as well as up to grade 8 and diploma level, with plenty of performing opportunities as soloists and in ensembles.
