Yr 9 GCSE music students visited Powderham Castle on 10 November.
On Friday 10th November, our year 9 GCSE music students visited Powderham Castle to listen to music performed by the Alke Quartet in the James Wyatt Music Room.
The Alke Quartet was formed in 2011, is currently in residence at the Royal College of Music, worked closely with the Endellion Quartet’s David Waterman and their UK performance venues include St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St John’s Smith Square, St James’s Piccadilly, Bath’s Pump Room and the Barbican Centre.
They performed music from Schubert, Haydn, Beethoven and songs from the Danish String Quartet Album This spectacular Music Room at the castle, designed by James Wyatt in 1788, was the first ever purpose built dome ceiling specifically designed for its acoustic properties . This gave our students the opportunity to hear exactly how concerts at the castle would have sounded some 400 years ago.
