Wednesday 12th October 2022
Band of The Welsh Guards Concert
On Thursday 7 October 2022, The Stamford Schools were delighted to welcome the Band of the Welsh Guards, who spent the day coaching our music students before treating us with a sell-out evening performance hosted in the Oswald Elliott Hall.
Twenty two of our music students, ranging from Year 9 to Year 13, were granted the privilege of an afternoon-long workshop with the Welsh Guards. More than 250 Stamfordians and members of the wider community attended an evening of terrific entertainment, featuring music ranging from a How to Train Your Dragon mashup, all the way to a version of British patriotic song Rule Britannia arranged by the composer Sir Malcolm Sargent, a former Scholar at Stamford School from 1907 to 1912.
The audience was honoured to witness the Band’s first performance of the National Anthem since the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. One of our student musicians described this as a ‘very patriotic moment’; a feeling shared by all and shown through the audience’s willing participation.
Bandmaster WO2 Michael McGowan, Conductor of the Band of the Welsh Guards, noted how impressed he was by our students, who had a mere few hours to learn and rehearse the thirteen musical pieces that were performed. One student shared that “The experience pushed my boundaries. It’s something I will always remember”.
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Tickets to the concert were free of charge, with a collection of just over £1,300 made at the end of the night in donations for cancer care at Stamford Hospital.
