Some sound performances at Royal Albert Hall

Published: 29 April 2010
by JOSH LOEB

MUSICIANS including 2,000 singers from schools across the borough packed into the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday for the Camden Schools Music Festival. 

The biennial event, which was part of Rhythm of London – taking place across the capital until April 24 – included highlights from Bizet’s Carmen, which was performed with soloists from English Pocket Opera, attended by proud parents and music fans.

Eleanor Palmer music teacher Laura McWilliam accompanied pupils from the school.

She said: “This is their fourth year of learning. Everyone in the school starts in Year Three, when they are eight years old.”

One of the children singing in the choir was Myrtle Fletcher, 12, from Haverstock School, who has performed twice before at the venue at previous Camden Schools Music Festivals. 

She said: “I’m not nervous because I don’t really get stage fright.”

Deborah Rees, deputy head of Camden Council’s music service, said: “Performing at the Royal Albert Hall is an experience that children will remember forever.”