Arts and Events Summer 2023

Arts & Events Summer Term 2023

Arts & Events at Haileybury

Welcome to our Arts & Events programme for the Summer Term.

This term will bring a celebration of music to Haileybury with a range of concerts and recitals, culminating with Proms in the Quad. There will also be a fabulous drama production, Matilda, performed by our Lower School pupils, and following last year’s success, we will once again be running a packed programme of activities for Arts Week in the penultimate week of term. Finally, we cannot wait to celebrate our pupils’ achievements during the most awaited events of the year – Speech Day and Leavers’ Ball.

We hope that you will be able to join us for some of these wonderful events and look forward to welcoming you soon at Haileybury.

Haileybury Soundbites

Throughout the term Thursdays at 1.20 pm Music School Atrium

These Thursday lunchtime recitals provide an informal opportunity to celebrate the talents of soloists and ensembles on a regular basis throughout term. A light lunch is provided.

27 April Music Scholars

11 May Woodwind & Brass

25 May Strings

15 June Pianists

Haileybury community (pupils, parents & staff) only

Community events

Hailey Dog Show

Saturday 22 April 3.00 pm Memorial Quad

Our popular annual dog show is back. With an agility course, Best in Show, parade and charity stalls, it promises to be a fun afternoon.

Haileybury community (pupils, parents & staff) only – Entry to the event will be £5 per dog and £1 per person, with all proceeds going to charities.

Concerto Concert

Tuesday 25 April 7.30 pm

Bradby Hall

A performance by some of the School’s high-level soloists, accompanied by a professional orchestra. Pupils will play, among others, the second movement from Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto, the Rondo from Mozart’s fifth piano concerto and the Bagatelles by Finzi. It promises to be a quite beautiful evening of music making.

Please reserve your free tickets at haileybury.com/events

Lower School Art Exhibition

Thursday 27 April 6.00 pm Music School Atrium

Portraiture has been a key theme for the LS1 artists. Exploring a range of portraits from different art movements and exploring facial features in depth has allowed the artists to develop their understanding and refine their skills before drawing, distorting and sculpting.

Peter Blake, Jasper Johns and Isabel Grant have inspired our LS2 artists exploring the alphabet in a variety of different ways. Artists have explored sculpture, cyanotypes and painting representing letters in their different shapes and forms. Open

Scarlett,LS2

Britten Song Recital

Tuesday 2 May 7.30 pm

Bradby Hall

Each term, our song recitals take a theme for their repertoire. It provides the pupils with the opportunity to learn and listen in a more concentrated way. So this recital of music by Benjamin Britten, performed by pupils across the senior school, provides an insight into the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s most important composers for voice. Performances will include Let The Florid Music Flow, Nocturne and a number of his folk songs arranged for voice and piano.

Please reserve your free tickets at haileybury.com/events

Recital at Ware Parish Church

Friday 5 May 12.30 pm St Mary’s Church, Ware

Pupil soloists perform a wide-ranging recital as part of this external concert series. It will feature performances taken from the Britten Song Recital earlier in the week, among others.

Lower School Drama production Matilda

Wednesday 10–Saturday* 13 May 7.30 pm (matinee 2.30 pm)

Ayckbourn Theatre

Rebellion is nigh in Matilda JR., a gleefully witty ode to the the anarchy of childhood and the power of imagination! This story of a girl who dreams of a better life and the children she inspires will have audiences rooting for the “revolting children” who are out to teach the grown-ups a lesson. Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence... and special powers! She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey. Matilda’s school life isn’t completely smooth sailing, however – the school’s mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don’t abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils’ saving grace! Packed with high-energy dance numbers and catchy songs, Matilda JR. is a joyous musical. Children and adults alike will be thrilled and delighted by the story of the special little girl with an extraordinary imagination.

* Dinner is available with the Saturday performance. Visit hailebury.com/events for booking.

Open to all – please reserve your free tickets at haileybury.com/events

Recital at Hertford Parish Church

Wednesday 10 May 1.00 pm

All Saints Church, Hertford

Pupil soloists perform a wide-ranging recital as part of this external concert series. It will be a return visit for some of our pupils, who performed at the Church to great acclaim in the Summer Term of 2022.

Open Events

11+ Open Morning

Wednesday

17 May 9.00 am Haileybury Campus

We are delighted to host our 11+ (Discovery) Open Morning. This will be a fantastic opportunity to meet our wonderful pupils and staff, explore our campus and experience school life at Haileybury.

Open to prospective pupils and their families. Please book at haileybury.com/opendays

16+ Open Evening

Monday 22 May 5.30 pm Haileybury Campus

Prospective pupils and their families, who are interested in applying for 16+ entry, are invited to join us for our Open Evening. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a tour of the campus, as well as meeting the Sixth Form and Academic teams at Haileybury.

Open to prospective pupils and their families. Please book at haileybury.com/opendays

Monday

Following last year’s success, we are delighted to again hold Arts Week, an exciting festival of art, music, drama, film & poetry right across the Haileybury Campus.

The following pages describe just a few of the events scheduled for the festival, but many more will be arranged during the first half of the Summer Term.

Please check haileybury.com/events for updates.

Hugh Rowlands & Guildhall Recitalists

Monday 19 June 7.30 pm

Bradby Hall

The Deputy Director of Music is joined by fellow students from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, presenting an eclectic programme for Arts Week.

Open to parents, staff and pupils

Poetry by Heart

Tuesday 20 June 7.30 pm

Arts Tent

The Poetry by Heart competition will see students reciting their chosen poems from memory.

Poetry by Heart

Open to parents, staff and pupils

The Brilliant Bard

Wednesday 21 June 7.00 pm

Aykbourn & Arboretum

Removes Drama pupils perform scenes from Shakespeare in the picturesque immersive environment of the Arboretum. This site specific work will allow audience members to wander between extracts experiencing characters and scenes from a range of the Bard’s wonderful plays. 7pm, Arboretum (with a less idyllic wet weather alternative in the Drama Department!)

Following this, in the Ayckbourn Theatre, pupils from Removes to the Lower Sixth will revive their super production of Twelfth Night (heavily abridged to 30 minutes) which formed part of the Coram School’s Shakespeare Festival in March. 8pm, Ayckbourn Theatre.

Together these events will provide a diverse and highly entertaining evening celebrating the wonderful work of the Brilliant Bard.

Open to parents, staff and pupils

Speech DayArt Show preview

Thursday 22 June 6.00–7.00 pm

Bradby Hall

The Speech Day Show will showcase the very best artwork produced by Haileybury pupils throughout the academic year. We will be exhibiting a range of pieces created by our talented young artists across the year groups. A selection of A level, GCSE and IB artwork will also be displayed in the exhibition. Join us in Bradby Hall to celebrate the achievements of our persevering pupils and to view what promises to be a stunning and varied exhibition.

Open to parents, staff and pupils

Lucy,U6

Madrigals

Friday 23 June 9.00 pm

Great Amwell

The Choral Society and pupils sing at this long-established event, by the banks of the river in the beautiful village of Great Amwell.

Open to all, no booking required

Juke Box Live

Saturday 24 June 7.00 pm

Quad

For pupils only.

Proms in the Quad

Sunday 25 June 1.00–4.00 pm

Quad

Proms in the Quad sees all of the School’s major ensembles performing for the last time in the school year. Ensembles, Big Bands and other groups will headline the show, followed by a reprise of last year’s hugely popular Sondheim Revue.

Open to all, no booking required.

Chamber Choir Recital

Wednesday 28 June 8.00 pm

Master’s Garden

Following on from the success of last year’s recital, the School’s premier choral ensemble sings a programme of unaccompanied music in the beautiful setting of the Master’s Garden. This will be the Chamber Choir’s final concert ahead of their international summer tour to Australia and Malaysia.

By invitation only

Haileybury Events

Speech Day

Saturday 1 July 10.oo am Upper Sixth & Parents, 11.00 am Whole School

Terrace & Pavilion

Please join us for Speech Day to celebrate another year of academic and co-curricular endeavours and achievements at Haileybury.

We welcome all parents, guardians, pupils and staff to a day of art, music, cricket and lunch parties on the Quads.

By invitation only

Haileybury Events

Leavers’ Ball

Saturday 1 July 6.30 pm

Terrace

This black tie event for Upper Sixth pupils and their parents will be a wonderful night to celebrate the achievements and successes of their time here at Haileybury. Tickets will be available to book online at haileybury.com/events, on a first come, first served basis, from the beginning of May.

Upper Sixth Form pupils, parents and staff only.

Services

We welcome pupils, parents and members of the public to all our Chapel services (unless indicated otherwise).

Choral Compline for Ascension Day

Wednesday 17 May 8.45 pm

Members of Chamber Choir sing the plainchant night office on the eve of Ascension Day.

Compline Service (Arts Week)

Wednesday 21 June 8.45 pm

A service of Compline and reflection in thanksgiving for the Arts.

School Service

Sunday 25 June 10.30 am

The Chapel and Chamber Choirs sing at this in-weekend service, which celebrates art and culture at the end of the School’s Arts Week.

The visiting preacher is the Revd Justin White, Senior Provost for Woodard Schools.

The Commemoration of Benefactors

Saturday 1 July 10.00 am