Over 40 different guitarists from Year 2 to Year 13 joining together for our annual Clifton Guitar Night - classical, acoustic, electric, bass, and 4 orchestras - bravo to Ms George and Mr Chetland for all their arranging and coaching!

An unexpectedly sunny Saturday afternoon for our Soul Band playing at the Tockington Manor Prep School 'Fun Day' on 15th June - escaping the rain clouds, and a great set of music from Michael Jackson to ABBA

Looking forward to the Summer Serenade concerto concert and Arts Festival next Thursday

Delighted for our 7 A-level Music and BTEC Music Tech students - all A-grade, Distinction or Distinction*. Some amazing destinations including the Tonmeister Course at Surrey, Leeds University and Leeds Conservatoire. So pleased for our young composers, performers and producers!

Our programme for the term now available here - from 'Made in Dagenham', BHM Open Mic Night to House Song and Christmas Concerts and Carol Services - we hope you enjoy! issuu.com/cliftoncollege…

A great variety of artists represented in our first ever Black History Month open mic night for the audience packed into the crypt. From Louis Armstrong to Alicia Keys, Etta James to Candi Staton, Rihanna to Whitney Houston. Well do to all our pupil singers and band-members

Congratulations to Sophie for her bravura performance of Sibelius at the Young Musician Concerto Competition in Maidenhead, runner up against specialist music school competitors from London, Cambridge, and Manchester. Pictured with Tasmin Little OBE, Chair of Adjudicators.

Catching up on some highlights of the middle part of the Michaelmas Term: 1: House Unison and House Part-Song Competitions...'The Girl from Ipanema' and Nat King Cole's L-O-V-E to the Jamelia's Superstar!

2: Remembrance Sunday: Last Post, Ireland's 'Greater Love' and 'I vow to thee'

3: The Autumn Concert: Concert Wind Band, Strings, Orchestra, Smaller Ensembles, 3 Mozart Violin Concertos, and 2 Student conductors - highlights video here! youtu.be/4g2rsuTeiDw

4. Antonia and Edmund topping their heat to secure finalist places at the Bristol Rotary Young Musician Competition for the Bristol Beacon in January 2025 - stunning Ravel Tzigane on violin and Shostakovich cello sonata peformances - bravi!

Highlights from a wonderful recital of violin (Mozart, Achron, Tchaikovsky), voice (Ireland, 'Quien sera') and piano (Chopin A flat Étude) given by our super-talented Yr13 scholar Henry - also celebrating his offer of a place at the RCM for Sept 2025: youtu.be/kxwTR05PVTA

Massive congrats to Antonia (violin) and Edmund (cello) coming 1st and 2nd respectively at the 2025 Bristol Rotary Young Musician Competition at the Beacon on Friday - pictured with the Deputy Lord Mayor. Following in the footsteps of another Cliftonian - Vera (2024 winner)!

Some images from the Redgrave Theatre band night on Monday just gone - 10 acts, with everything from soul and funk to blues and jazz, duos, guitar solos, year groups acts, all bookended by the soul bands and big band.

Congratulations to Bristol Choral Society for their launch today of their new Delphian CD 'Praise Him with Trumpets' recorded in Clifton College Chapel in October 2023 ft. premiere recordings of Elizabeth Poston, Grace Evangeline-Mason and Dame Judith Weir delphianrecords.com/products/prais…

A refreshing excursion to the Gothic splendour of St Mary Redcliffe Church on the Bristol harbourside yesterday to sing Evensong - followed by pizza and ice cream #swoon Well done to the 2 pupil organists accompanying also!

Professor Michael Young (RWCMD) providing insight and encouragement to our young pianists aged 8 to 16 in our weekend Piano Masterclass. So many colourful suggestions - from thinking of Beethoven piano sonatas as string quartet to playing Chopin Ballades as if in a Paris salon.

Pupils from Y3 tupwards involved in an concert harp mini-recital yesterday - thanks to Teresa y13 for demoing the special FX, playing lovely Handel and Hasselmans pieces, and inspiring for our younger up-and-coming harpists!

A very busy June: Spotlight Concert, Summer Serenade (7 concerto movements), Clifton International Festival Chamber Music (Brahms and Schubert), Organ Recital, and Soul Band and Big Band on tour. Well done pupils for fitting this around GCSEs, A-levels, Y9/10/12 and music exams!

Complete performances of chamber music works by 7 pupils at the Clifton International Festival: Brahms's stirring Piano Trio No. 1 in B youtu.be/stebp3sk7Hc and Schubert's sublime Quintet youtu.be/-rOUgOF2eFg