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Welcome to Arts Week 2025, and to another action-packed celebration of the visual arts, drama, music and the spoken word at Haileybury. This year’s theme is Identity and the Arts, through which we explore the profound power of the Arts to express and confirm identity - from the individual, through the collective to the entire shared cultural identity of our school community - of which we can be very proud. The Arts Week Lecture, given by Kate Apley, explores identity through the healing and connective properties of music therapy, opening a unique window on a little understood musical niche. We are also delighted to welcome back OH Sophie Miller to give a talk and workshop about finding success in contemporary art. The Speech Day Art Show opening, a double bill of Shakespeare, Summer Concert, A Night on Broadway, Drama Showcase and the annual performance of madrigals by the Pool at Great Amwell promise to confirm the rich diversity of the School’s artistic life. The Arts Tent on Pavilion provides a focus for many of our activities, and will be used through the week for teaching, concerts and other events.
You are warmly invited to join us and we hope to see you there.
Angus Head, Richard Brain, Jacob Thomas
5.00 PM
ARTS WEEK SPOTLIGHT RECITAL TY TOLLMAN PIANO June17Tuesday
Bradby Hall
Ty Tollman performs the immense Piano Sonata in B minor (S.178) by the renowned Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Written in 1853, this work has attracted much admiration for its complexity and virtuosity. One scholar has called it “a sonata within a sonata” which contributes to this work’s unique status, a work which may be autobiographical, a biblical narrative, or a piece of expressive form. What is for certain, is that this will be a fabulous performance by Ty as he rounds off his Haileybury career with this iconic work.
5.45 PM
ARTS WEEK
LECTURE: MUSIC THERAPY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Arts Tent
Kate Apley is a music therapist with the charity Nordoff and Robbins. In this lecture, Kate will provide an introduction to music therapy, using video excerpts from her work with people with a range of needs and challenges to illustrate the connecting power of music as therapy. She will explore how music therapy can empower people to communicate and express their identity, especially those who may not be able to do so in conventional ways. In a society that isolates people with marginalised identities and disabilities, music therapy can offer agency and work towards positive social change.
7.30 PM
IMMERSIVE
SHAKESPEARE
Chapel
Pupils from the Removes Performance Drama pathway present extracts from Shakespeare’s political masterpiece Julius Caesar. Having explored the popular modern form of immersive theatre (Punchdrunk, Secret Cinema) audiences will be plunged into an atmospheric and reimagined Rome, amidst the conspiratorial intrigue and moral dilemmas surrounding the assassination of Roman leader Julius Caesar.
1.40
PM
/SOUNDBITES /SOLOISTS & ENSEMBLES
Bradby Hall
The first of our lunchtime recitals celebrating the talents of soloists and ensembles from across the school.
9.00 PM
LATE-NIGHT CHORAL COMPLINE
Chapel
The Chamber Choir sing the ancient office of Compline accompanied by a string quartet and chamber organ continuo. They will sing the Nunc Dimittis in G minor and the anthem Rejoice in the Lord Alway by the English mid Baroque composer Henry Purcell.
Conductor | Mr Brain
Quartet Leader | Mrs Groom
Organ Continuo | Mr Ali
7.30 PM
A NIGHT ON BROADWAY
Ayckbourn Theatre
Following its enormous popularity last year, this electrifying event returns to the Ayckbourn with renditions of a selection of songs from popular musicals. Successful auditionees have received directorial advice, costume and staging support to prepare their song for performance. Also featuring ensemble performances from Annie and Oliver! by pupils from the Lower School. The event will be judged as a competition to discover Arts Week’s premiere musical theatre sensation!
June18Wednesday 2025
June19Thursday 2025
1.40
PM
/SOUNDBITES /GOSPEL CHOIR
Bradby Hall
The second of our lunchtime recitals, today featuring Haileybury’s very own Gospel Choir.
5.30
PM
ART AND DT SHOW: SPEECH DAY PREVIEW
SciTech
The Speech Day Show showcases the very best art and DT work produced by Haileybury pupils throughout the academic year. We will be exhibiting a range of pieces created by our talented pupils across a range of year groups. Join us to celebrate the achievements of our persevering pupils and to view what promises to be a stunning and varied exhibition.
6.00 PM
SHAKESPEARE BY HEART
Arts Tent
Pupils and staff perform from memory their chosen work by Shakespeare, with a prize for the best recital. This wonderful event is organised by the English department.
7.30 PM
SUMMER
CONCERT
Bradby Hall
From Classical to Jazz, the Summer Concert presents a programme of final performances from our main school ensembles and quartets including the Symphony Orchestra, Big Band, Wind Band, Contemporary Choir and Lower School Choir. Repertoire will include from Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite and Florence Price’s Juba Dance to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up and Sting’s Fragile.
Musical Directors | Mr Brain, Mr Gibson-Smith, Ms Gill, Mrs Groom
9.30 AM
OH LECTURE: HOW CAN WE DECODE THE UNSEEN TO BE SEEN
Arts Tent
An exploration of contemporary art practice
We are delighted to welcome back OH Sophie Miller to give a talk and workshop about pursuing her studies and finding success in contemporary art.
1.30
PM
LUNCHTIME ORGAN
RECITAL
Chapel
Repetition is at the core of our nature as human beings. Our brains are hard-wired to look for patterns, which often delight us when we find them. This recital explores the theme of repetition through four pieces of music which each take a small idea and then create new sonic worlds with them, taking us along for the journey. Two pieces are old: Buxthude’s lyrical Chaconne and Bach’s monumental Passacaglia. Two pieces are contemporary: Giles Swayne’s Riff-Raff and Philip Glass’s Mad Rush. If you like Interstellar, you will love this.
Organ | Mr Ali
9.00 PM
MADRIGALS IN GREAT AMWELL
Great Amwell
The Chamber Choir and Choral Society continue the cherished tradition of singing madrigals by Great Amwell Pool. With its atmospheric weeping willows, this evocative celebration of summer will see the choirs perform traditional madrigals and partsongs at sunset. To include works by Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Orlando Gibbons.
Conductors | Mr Deveson and Mr Brain
7.30 PM
DRAMA SHOWCASE
Ayckbourn Theatre
This year’s Drama Showcase promises the discerning theatre critic an exciting lineup of excellent quality: Outstanding original devised pieces in contrasting styles: Brecht, Artaud & Frantic Assembly; interspersed with performances from Lamda students and classical monologues from a selection of Drama Scholars. Ayckbourn Theatre, 7.30pm. Not to be missed!
June21Saturday 2025
6.30
PM
POP ON PAVILION
Pavilion/Arts Tent
Haileybury’s pop bands and other groups provide an upbeat musical accompaniment to the In Weekend barbecue. Groups and soloists from Lower School to Upper Sixth will provide entertainment from a wide variety of artists.
June22Sunday 2025
10.30 AM ARTS WEEK FESTIVAL SERVICE
Chapel
This service is the culmination of our Arts Week and will include poetry, drama and a wide variety of music. The Choir will sing Benjamin Britten’s arrangement of Psalm 100 and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘Let all the world in every corner sing’. All parents, guardians and friends are welcome.
11.30 AM AVENUE RUN
Avenue
The annual and hotly-contested Avenue Run concludes this year’s Arts Week in a blaze of fevered activity. All are welcome to line the perimeter of the Avenue as pupils and staff career at speed to the finish line!
