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Welcome to our Founder’s Concert 2025!
With nearly 200 musicians participating in our seven instrumental and vocal ensembles, tonight’s concert promises to be a truly wonderful celebration of music at Downe House.
This concert wouldn’t be possible without a huge amount of work behind the scenes. I would like to thank the whole Music team, including our fantastic Visiting Music Teachers, for all of the guidance and encouragement they have given to our musicians in their preparations.
Our thanks also to the Audio-Visual, Estates, Marketing, Resources and Operations teams at Downe House for their incredible support for this event.
Our final thanks go to our wonderful musicians for their amazing commitment, hard work and valued contribution to music at Downe House. I hope that they enjoy performing just as much as you enjoy listening to them play.
Prima Voce
Tota Pulchra Es from Quatre Motets, Op. 10
by Durufle
Laudate Pueri Op. 39, No. 2 Mendelssohn
Mr Alex Leadbeater, Conductor
Mr Chris Lambert, Piano
Honor McMyn, Soloist
Joline Lam, Soloist
Hedy Dong, Soloist
Sinfonia
In the Hall of the Mountain King
by Grieg
Mr Chris Gill, Conductor
Once Removed
Here Comes the Sun
by The Beatles
Hey Jude
by The Beatles
Mr Alexander Tostdevine, Conductor
Mr Barney Ashworth, Piano
Jazz Band
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
by Ashford & Simpson
(arranged by Paul Murtha)
Mr Alexander Tostdevine, Conductor
In Harmony
Mamma Mia
by ABBA
Dancing Queen
by ABBA
Mr Chris Gill, Conductor
Polyphonix
Ubi Caritas
by Ola Gjeilo
Sweet and Low
by Andy Brooke
Adiemus
by Karl Jenkins
Mr Alex Leadbeater, Conductor
Mr Chris Lambert, Piano
Symphony Orchestra
Peter and the Wolf
by Sergei Prokofiev
(abridged version by Alexander Tostdevine)
Yan Qi (Angelina) Shek, Leader
Mr Alexander Tostdevine, Conductor
Our Musicians
| Emily Bailey |
| Violet Barker |
| Lucinda Boucher |
| Lily Colville |
| Isabella de Arcangelis |
| Hedy Dong |
| Charlotte Foulkes |
| Felicity Harris |
| Cosima Islef |
| Joline Lam |
| Sophie Lambourne |
| Cheuk-Yi Cherie (Sage) Lau |
| Honor McMyn |
| Midori Nair |
| Dominica Prentice |
| Yan Qi (Angelina) Shek |
| Henrietta Simpkin |
| Olivia Stewart |
| Anna Stopford |
| Clotilde Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre |
| Dissara Kurmarohita |
| Isla Erskine Crum |
| Abigail Kehoe |
| Vedika Mehta |
| Esme Matthews |
| Vitra Ampornpisit |
| Ziqun (Linda) Lu |
| Zhiya Xu |
| Philippa Marsh |
| Tilly McClymont |
| Zhiya Yin |
| Sadie Stepanek |
| Chloe Kelly-Higgins |
| Emma Kovalchuk |
| Francesca Mitchell |
| Tsz Yuet Natalie Luo |
| Beatrice Gillett |
| Vivian Bakewell |
| Sydney Dell |
| Baoyi Dong |
| Victoria Hon |
| Zara Kachingwe-Sisya |
| Isabelle Lawler |
| Lily Okeibunor |
| Uwekhai Okhai-Akhigbe |
| Chloe Olsen |
| Yuheng Ouyang |
| Mook Yongsakul |
| Xidan Zhang |
| Emilija Breddermann |
| Uwailomwan Aighe |
| Tsin Yuet Ho |
| Lottie Denman |
| Alexandra Li |
| Pimpassorn Nilchiansakul |
| Noa Martin Coca |
| Phoebe McEwen |
| Shanmei Pan |
| Zoe Phillips |
| Laashja Pirathapan |
| Zara Sutherland |
| Sienna Ackermann |
| Arianna Alamouti |
| Lily Bingham |
| Emilija Breddermann |
| Alice Cazenove |
| Ngon Tung Ellie Chen |
| Strawberry Culliney |
| Wilanla Dejsunthornwat |
| Wilanla Dejsunthornwat |
| Baoyi Dong |
| Melinka Drummond |
| Beatrice Gillett |
| Phoebe Grant |
| Siu Wai He |
| Tsin Yuet Ho |
| Sophia Joiner |
| Chloe Kelly-Higgins |
| Autumn Kirk |
| Kiret Kular |
| Wenwen Li |
| Faramadeoluwa Makanjuola |
| Phoebe McEwen |
| Claudia Monckton |
| Lily Okeibunor |
| Chloe Olsen |
| Anastasia Ozerov |
| Annabel Parry-Williams |
| Allegra Pettyfer |
| Zoe Phillips |
| Clementine Pilkington |
| Imogen Pugh |
| Elektra Purchas |
| Elizabeth Rollo |
| Sophia Rosa |
| Saskia Warr |
| Kaiying Wu |
| Emma Zhang |
| Violet Barker |
| Anna Dawson Paul |
| Dissara Kurmarohita |
| Gauri Langhae |
| Esme Matthews |
| Honor McMyn |
| Sasha Paterson |
| Mook Yongsakul |
| Xidan Zhang |
| Uwailomwan Aighe |
| Taraoluwa Akeju |
| Vitra Ampornpisit |
| Elizabeth Apps |
| Vivian Bakewell |
| Aleksandra Bekker |
| Maya Benson |
| Elizabeth Carter Shaw |
| Yifei Chang |
| Yuhan Chiu |
| Sophia Darroue |
| Inès du Chastel de la Howarderie |
| Isla Erskine Crum |
| Niamh Hallas |
| Mary Hata |
| Arabella Heslop |
| Iris Hollingworth |
| Victoria Hon |
| Noelle Hui |
| Emma Kovalchuk |
| Dissara Kurmarohita |
| Alexandra Li |
| Emily Liu |
| Kloy Lotharukpong |
| Ziqun (Linda) Lu |
| Tsz Yuet Natalie Luo |
| Kai Yi Jada Mak |
| Esme Matthews |
| Vedika Mehta |
| Sara Motyka |
| Pimpassorn Nilchiansakul |
| Uwekhai Okhai-Akhigbe |
| Xinyan Piao |
| Xinzhi Piao |
| Katie Raeburn-Ward |
| Isabella Raynsford |
| Carmen Ren |
| Olivia Reynolds |
| Ilaria Rosa |
| Kunkhanit Tejasen |
| Yicen Tong |
| Isabella Warr |
| Willoughby Wren |
| Mook Yongsakul |
| Xidan Zhang |
| Ameerah Abidoye |
| Aderinola Aderibigbe |
| Estelle Alldis-Kervella |
| Emily Bailey |
| Violet Barker |
| Lucinda Boucher |
| Jia Chun |
| Lily Colville |
| Charlotte Cunningham |
| Isabella de Arcangelis |
| Hedy Dong |
| Charlotte Foulkes |
| Rosina Gill-Wagner |
| Felicity Harris |
| Xiaoyu Hu |
| Marvellous Idowu-Titus |
| Cosima Islef |
| Hitomi Kotaka (Yip) |
| Joline Lam |
| Sophie Lambourne |
| Gauri Langhae |
| Cheuk-Yi Cherie (Sage) Lau |
| Mingxi Li |
| Petra McKay |
| Honor McMyn |
| Lin Yi (Emily) Meng |
| Midori Nair |
| Trinity Parkes |
| Dominica Prentice |
| Selma Schmitt |
| Yan Qi (Angelina) Shek |
| Henrietta Simpkin |
| Olivia Stewart |
| Anna Stopford |
| Thanaya (Hanna) Suvansarang |
| Maria Taraban |
| Clotilde Tillette de Clermont-Tonerre |
| Kayla Vela |
| Tiffany Ying |
| Ameerah Abidoye |
| Taraoluwa Akeju |
| Vitra Ampornpisit |
| Emmeline Anderson |
| Yifei Chang |
| Ngon Tung Ellie Chen |
| Wing Yu (Hailey) Chiu |
| Sophie Chow |
| Jia Chun |
| Isabella de Arcangelis |
| Hedy Dong |
| Charlotte Foulkes |
| Esmee Haefner |
| Mary Hata |
| Xiaoyu Hu |
| Noelle Hui |
| Hitomi Kotaka (Yip) |
| Ting Ni Kuo |
| Gauri Langhae |
| Alexandra Li |
| Mingxi Li |
| Emily Liu |
| Yuchen Liu |
| Tsz Yuet Natalie Luo |
| Esme Matthews |
| Honor McMyn |
| Vanda Memari |
| Lin Yi (Emily) Meng |
| Sewon (Victoria) Min |
| Pimpassorn Nilchiansakul |
| Hyunmin (Becky) Oh |
| Katie Raeburn-Ward |
| Carmen Ren |
| Yan Qi (Angelina) Shek |
| Henrietta Simpkin |
| Chloe Wang |
| Song Heng (Claudia) Wu |
| Kaiying Wu |
| Zhaowei Yin |
| Tiffany Ying |
| Gabrielle Yue |
| Xidan Zhang |
| Enyi (Christina) Zhao |
| Ai Lun (Ellen) Zhu |
Music Seniors
Yan Qi (Angelina) Shek Head of Music
Isabella de Arcangelis and Violet Barker Deputy Heads of Music
Honor McMyn Head of Choral
Lottie Foulkes Deputy Head of Choral
Song Heng (Claudia) Wu Head of Instrumental
Learn more about our Ensembles
Thanks
With thanks to Mr George Laing and the AV Team, Mrs Chloe Pincott and the Marketing Team, the Estates Department and the Music Department staff.
